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Mitchell McKenna
The Karate Kid Trailer (2010) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
The Karate Kid Trailer (2010)
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Jacket on, jacket off!?! DO NOT LIKE! - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo
It'll prob get overhyped, but it was a pretty cool trailer - I'll see it in theaters (if nothing else, out of respect for the original). Fort Minor was a good choice, and they've got some big names in the cast. - Mitchell McKenna
Philipp Lenssen
Webmaster Checklist, Nostalgia Edition
Get America Online Keyword - Philipp Lenssen
Register for Webring - Philipp Lenssen
Submit to DMOZ - Philipp Lenssen
Meta tags: revisit-after, keywords (repeated multiple times) - John μller
Collect enough blinking GIFs to prettify the page - Sebastian
Fake-paper background images - John μller
Pretty horizontal rule images. - Philipp Lenssen
Weekly launch dumbTruck or a similar tool to submit all your URIs to all search engines out there. - Sebastian
Submit to Infoseek. Check rankings. Tweak page. Submit to Infoseek... - Matt Cutts
Meta tags: to use commas or not? Badges: Add "This page works best in Netscape 2.0" badge. - Matt Cutts
Submit url to "Free For All" (FFA) pages. Prepare for resulting onslaught of email spam. - Matt Cutts
Sign up for ad network with pop-ups and Punch The Monkey ads. - Alex Power
Submit URL to other search engines such as Excite, Lycos, and HotBot. - Alex Power
Create a non-frames version for visitors not using Netscape 3.0 or above. - Tony Ruscoe
Add hit counter. - Tony Ruscoe
Add some Java Applets with marquees and rippling water - John μller
Add obfuscated links to all doorway pages on the home page. <a href="dwp1">.</a><a href="dwp2">.</a>... - Sebastian
Participate in some SEOguru's 'spider traps', aka distributed link farms. (2000+) - Sebastian
add Guest books for users to view and sign. - John Wang
EricaJoy
http://friendfeed.com/genealo... has a surprisingly low amount of traffic. I guess genealogy is too niche?
I have a family tree going on at geni.com. It's a trip seeing all the different families linked up as more people use the site. Like my cousin's wife's side is all in there too. - Rodfather
I work on my genealogy VERY intermittently. - Spidra Webster
I've found it's often best to get help and advice from groups focussing on your surnames rather than generic genealogy groups. But I'm no expert and only dabble in my genealogy very occasionally. - Tony Ruscoe
Bindu Reddy
It's pretty crazy. I hadn't checked Google Wave for a 5-6 weeks and now when I logged back in pretty much everyone I know seems to have an account. Not much activity from any of them though :( However I did get a couple of waves/messages(?) but didn't know about them since the wave did not send me email :)
Idem, although this cool chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/extensi... notifies me of new Waves as they come. - Jérôme Flipo
Same here, nobody seems to be interested except about giving invite to others. Google wave has failed to live up to its hype for now. - ashish from iPhone
When people first started to use email, did they expect a letter through the post or a telephone call to tell them they had something in their inbox? - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo
Tony, I am not sure Wave aspires to replace email ... does it? If so, I am not really clear why/how? Email follows a simple universal protocol and pretty much everyone today can send and receive email. Wave has to come up with something much more compelling for people to switch. Even for one person to use Wave as an email client - wave needs to make sure everyone else the person will... more... - Bindu Reddy
No, much like email didn't replace the postal service or telephone calls. Email assumes that anyone you want to contact by email has an email address. That's commonplace these days but wasn't when email was first introduced. You're right that it would probably help to have email alerts, but people using Wave regularly don't need that. Personally, I think a common interface for Gmail and Google Wave would help increase its usage and awareness. - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo
There are people in my life who call me to tell me that they've sent me an email. And there are people who I email to tell them that I've updated their wave. - Amit Patel
i think they should integrate wave with gmail - if you have gmail account, you are a waveist. ..otherwise, i wonder how is it going to catch on ... like friend connect? - almost nobody uses it. - Petr Buben
Actually I think Google’s Wave project came out so the developers could get some feedback from it’s users and now they’re off correcting the bugs and implementing some of the many suggestions users gave them. I expect an updated, improved and much more friendly to come out of the labs soon. - Tom Awtry
Amit - LOL :)) - Bindu Reddy
Stuart Grimshaw
Anyone got any ideas where I can get a car MOTd in .sheff before the 28th?
You could try DOT MOT. Not sure whether they'll be open or not though: http://www.dotmotltd.co.uk/ - Tony Ruscoe from iPhone
Kevin Fox
Awesome addendum to email mistakenly sent to me: "P.S. Rosco pooped in the fridge and ate the entire cheese wheel."
I hope Roscoe is a dog. - Kevin Fox from iPhone
I vote for hedgehog! - Roger Nang
Dammit. People always spell my name incorrectly! - Tony Ruscoe
Isn't that from Anchor Man? - Georgia Diehl
Bret Taylor
I would normally say I don't like brussel sprouts, but today the Facebook culinary team combined them with bacon, and they were amazing. Maybe I just like bacon, but they may have changed my mind about the vegetable.
I felt the same way until my wife made her Grandmother's recipe from Lorraine, which involved... lots of bacon. It's amazing what bacon can do for almost any meal. - Joel Webber
Parenting Pro-Tip: Mix Bacon with whatever food your child won't eat. They might change their mind. - Chris Heath
It's part of growing up. I used to have them on my "do not eat" list with asparagus, both both are great now. - Louis Gray
Ask them to half steam them then deep fry in tempura - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
Add some nutmeg too. - Tony Ruscoe
I liked Brussels sprouts even when I was a kid. Of course, I also liked cabbage, with salt and/or butter, and they're basically the same flavor. Also, try Bacon Salt. - Otto
Tony Ruscoe
O2 network issues hinder iPhone users - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
I've been seeing this on-and-off since Saturday. I was being allocated a German IP address for a few days before that too. My contract's up in January so it might be time to make the switch... - Tony Ruscoe
Tony Ruscoe
NSFW: Free as in “my publisher will disown me after I pirate my book on TechCrunch” - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
I've not read the book, but I like Paul Carr's approach to this... - Tony Ruscoe
Andrew Wardlaw
This is all Dave's Fault!!!!
What is? - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo
DeWitt Clinton
Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size
Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size
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"We are now making this tool available to the public on Google Labs. To try it, simply visit browsersize.googlelabs.com and enter the URL of a page you'd like to examine. The size overlay you see is using latest data from visitors to google.com, so this should give you a pretty good indication of what parts of your UI are generally visible and what aren't." - DeWitt Clinton from Bookmarklet
Visit the kickassitude at: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/ - DeWitt Clinton
There is an odd perception bias with pages that have a floating width layout. If you visit the tool in a very large screen, it makes it seem as though the content is out of the normal view, but if you re-size the browser down to that view size, the content floats back into the visible range. - Bill Strathearn
why is this not part of the Google Analytics suite? - Gabe
Gabe, that would be awesome. However, Google Analytics currently only includes stats for screen resolution rather than browser window size. - Tony Ruscoe
mashable
Facebook Testing Reply by Email Feature - http://mashable.com/2009...
It's about time more FriendFeed features made their way to Facebook... - Tony Ruscoe
Sheffield Students' Union
The queue at 9:55am wiaitng for Union Christmas Day to kick off - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
The queue at 9:55am wiaitng for Union Christmas Day to kick off
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Those were the days! - Tony Ruscoe
Tony Ruscoe
List of Barbie's friends and family - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Wikipedia literally has a page for everything. I stumbled across this whilst searching for Christmas presents for my niece... - Tony Ruscoe from Bookmarklet
Reto Meier
Today is a good day to be a Googler.
Especially as an Android Developer Advocate, isn't it? - Jérôme Flipo
Gutted. Three weeks to go! - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo
Tony Ruscoe
Via: http://twitter.com/mattcut... (Likewise, I wasn't getting much of this right...) - Tony Ruscoe from Bookmarklet
Not sure I agree with not rubbing the chopsticks together. I mean, clearly if there's no splinters there's no point, but most sushi places I go to server wooden chopsticks that often have splinters. Maybe I'm just going to rubbish Sushi places! And although I agree that you should dip the fish not the rice into the soy, I don't see what's wrong with putting the wasabi in there and mixing it up (so long as everyone sharing the bowl are happy with eating it like that). - Chris Hill
Tony Ruscoe
Airmile hackers use mileage credit-cards to buy $1 coins that they use to pay the CC bills - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
I didn't think you could purchase currency on credit, at least in the UK, but I'll be looking into it now... - Tony Ruscoe
Google At Work
Change owner in a Google spreadsheet - http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009...
This is great but I'd like to be able to transfer ownership between Google Accounts and Google Apps accounts (given my wife has just migrated her @gmail.com account to our domain). Currently, it generates this error when trying: "Sorry, cannot transfer ownership to [Google Apps User]. Ownership can only be transferred to another user in the same domain as the current owner." - Tony Ruscoe
Exactly. That's the only reason why I don't use my Apps account. - Jérôme Flipo
You can share them and give full permissions but you just can't transfer ownership. It's enough to get by but doesn't make complete migration between accounts possible. - Tony Ruscoe
Chris Hill
Michael Ruhlman's 'Ratio' Becomes an Apple iPhone App - http://www.seriouseats.com/2009...
That looks like a really useful application. I was saying to Suzy the other day that I wanted to learn all those types of things. - Tony Ruscoe
Chris Hill
http://twitpic.com/souwl - Advent Day 8: If I work too late, I turn into EVIL BIN MAN
http://twitpic.com/souwl - Advent Day 8: If I work too late, I turn into EVIL BIN MAN
I'm grateful for this advent calendar but you're seriously turning into a mental! - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo
Tony Ruscoe
Tony Ruscoe: Going Google - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Congratulations :) - Simon
Like like like. :) - Matt Cutts
Congratulations, Tony! - John μller
Thanks everyone! - Tony Ruscoe
Congratulations, welcome on board! - Can Demirezen
Tony Ruscoe
Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta - http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009...
Google Chrome announcements galore today! - Tony Ruscoe
Barry Schwartz
Tony Ruscoe, Popular SEM Personality, to Join Google - http://www.seroundtable.com/archive...
Thanks Barry! :-) - Tony Ruscoe
Pascal
Google des Tages: Tony Ruscoe - http://www.googlewatchblog.de/2009...
Vielen danke! - Tony Ruscoe
Jérôme Flipo
So finally Google can't afford to not hire smart people who love Google :) Congratulations, Tony! - Jérôme Flipo
Thanks. Although I read that as "can't afford to hire smart people" at first... :-D - Tony Ruscoe
Junyu
Tony Ruscoe: Going Google - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Congrats Tony! - Junyu
Thanks. I see you're a UX Designer for Google in China, right? Can't wait to join you! - Tony Ruscoe
EricaJoy
Tony Ruscoe: Going Google - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
No way! Patrick and Ade will make you feel right at home. :) - EricaJoy
Way! Really looking forward to it... :-) - Tony Ruscoe
Tony Ruscoe
Give Google Chrome for Christmas - http://www.givechrome.com/#...
"Google Chrome is now really easy to share. So if you're looking for gift ideas, why not wrap up Google Chrome with one of our shiny themes and give the gift of super fast browsing? Google Chrome is so simple to use, even your granny will love it." (via http://blogoscoped.com/forum...) - Tony Ruscoe from Bookmarklet
Matt Cutts
"Sorry, but Microsoft Silverlight doesn’t work with this web browser."
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Sigh. :) - Matt Cutts
Which one? Works in Chrome Windows. - Hayes Haugen
It does not work on Chrome OS X. - Gary Burd
It definitely does not work with Chrome on Ubuntu. - imabonehead
STOP USING THE BETA! - Andy Bakun
Guess you don't get to check it out. - Hayes Haugen
I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu. - Matt Cutts
Be a man. Get IE8 :) - dannysullivan
Danny, what would I run IE8 on? I don't have any Microsoft OS software any more. :) - Matt Cutts
I find it informative to use my competitor's products. - Hayes Haugen
I keep trying, Hayes, but when AdCenter rolled out, it wouldn't even work on Firefox. - Matt Cutts
The Web wins again. :) - Ray Cromwell
Does this mean you've broken your "stop using Microsoft OS/software" challenge? Or are Microsoft websites excluded? - Tony Ruscoe
Google's bet on HTML5 and the web is the right one. - Diego Barros 
who gives a tard about Chrome :) Grow up Cutts! - Jose Fajardo
Matt it works fine on Chrome on Windows. This is the only platform on which a non-beta version of Chrome is available at the moment. You should use only supported browsers like IE8 and Chrome on Windows, Firefox, Safari and Opera on Windows and Mac OS. If you are using a Linux-based distribution, you should get the latest Moonlight binaries and use a supported browser like Firefox or... more... - Lituus Limacon
Silverlight used to work with the Chrome Dev beta. Not sure what changed.... - Roberto Bonini
Tony: Microsoft websites are excluded from my challenge. :) - Matt Cutts
Kevin Fox
CrunchPad Becomes JooJoo, Pre-Orders Start Friday - Reviews by PC Magazine - http://www.pcmag.com/article...
A pretty funny name, given the context. I can see lots of people calling it "Bad JooJoo". - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet
What a cool name! I only knew the French word joujou, and it sounds pretty funny. Contrary to the origin of the American word :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Jérôme Flipo
Or JewJew? - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo
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