note to self

After Dark but before the watershed

So whilst Apple are launching the iPhone and having legal issues about naming. China’s largest appliance maker, Haier Group, is teaming up with a subsidiary of AOL to make a wireless media player that can stream or download content without hooking it up to a PC.
It looks like a regular iPod but does what even [...]

As anyone who knows me knows I hate advertising. Well okay that’s not entirely true. I hate when advertising ruins the experience or when advertising becomes more imprtant than the content.
Anyway advertising rant over - more to come when I don’t work where I work now.
Anyway AOL Pictures and presumably the rest of the [...]

Techcrunch is bemoaning AOL Pictures relaunch. I think they are missing something though.
Flickr, photobucket, bubbleshare and others may well look slicker and have more intuitive UI but they simply do not have the userbase potential AOL has from the start.
You simply wouldn’t get the gems shown here on bubbleshare et al.

Not [...]

My buddy list has been over run recently with wee mee’s from http://aim.weeworld.com and it’s amazing how similar some people look. Not sure you can see here but three of the girls (fuzzed for privacy) look identical in their wee mee’s!

It’s so cute it defies belief - well okay it’s not and it’s as cute as stor troopers. Remember them? Well If not then maybe this is cute!

Over at aolstalker.com they have done an interesting analysis of the clickthru from the AOL search data that was released last week to the fury of privacy rights campaigners and users.
A whopping 47% of searches failed to reult in a click thru to a result.
I have to say I’m sure this is no lower than [...]