Posts Tagged ‘web’
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
This coastal Western Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma californica, aka California Jay, Long-tailed Jay ) in Golden Gate Park don’t like them spiders. You can tell because the blue jay spotted a web from a great distance, found a tasty, 8-legged, 4-eyed treat (Araneus trifolium, aka Pumpkin Spider) and then mashed it into bits.
Poor little feller. He almost made it to Halloween.*
Anyway, nummers!
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Poor little feller.
*Halloween 2004 that is. But the EXIF says October 25th and that’s six days a’fore Hallo’ween no matter the year…
Tags: 2011, Aphelocoma californica, Arachnophagic, Araneus trifolium, arboretum, bay area, Blue, california, California Jay, Coastal, golden gate park, halloween, jay, Long-tailed Jay, pumpkin, Pumpkin Spider, San Francisco, scrub, Scrub Jay, spider, strybing, web, western, Western Scrub Jay
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
[UPDATE: Oh, here it is: #10,000.]
Or rather, just 9,999 posts as of right now for Scott Beale of Laughing Squid, but #10,000 is just around the corner.
See?
“There are 9999 blog posts on Laughing Squid written by Scott Beale.
Subscribe via RSS, Email, Twitter, Google+, Facebook & Tumblr.”
Hurray!
Bon Courage, Scott Beale.
Famous Frank Chu at OpBART 5, Market Street, USA:
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Tags: 10000, 2011, 9999, ad, advertising, aliens, bay area, california, carry, carrying, City, frank chu, galaxies, hosting, laughing squid, moved, new york, ny, post, posts, San Francisco, scott beale, SF, sign, web
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Let’s check in with HP and see what they have to say these days considering all the criticism they’ve gotten lately.
Wow, what a turkey:
(But keep your fingers crossed – you still might be able to find one of these for $99, which is kind of a bargain…)
Anyway:
“Hewlett-Packard Chairman Ray Lane Defends Strategy Shift at the 2011 InformationWeek 500 Conference
Lane acknowledges confusion in market following its announcement to consider spinning off PC business and spotlights HP’s focus on enterprise information technology
DANA POINT, Calif., Sept. 12, 2011 – Speaking at this year’s InformationWeek 500 Conference, Hewlett-Packard Chairman Ray Lane and Chief Technology Strategy Officer Shane Robison discussed HP’s change in strategy and the confusion that followed in the market. HP announced in August that it would buy the software company Autonomy, end production of the TouchPad tablet computer, and explore spinning off its PC business. The executives acknowledged the company didn’t communicate the changes well, and they explained how HP will become a strictly enterprise-focused IT vendor with particular depth in managing unstructured data–the 85% of information that isn’t managed within the columns and rows of conventional databases.
“Predictability is important, but technology companies that just keep doing what they are doing, die,” Lane said. “You have to keep changing, and that’s uniquely important in the technology business.”
In a candid conversation with InformationWeek SVP and Editorial Director Fritz Nelson, Lane said HP was not a leader in consumer devices, describing HP’s TouchPad tablet as “a generation behind” the iPad. HP will continue to support its webOS mobile operating system. By separating webOS from the hardware business, Lane said HP will be able to take advantage of what he described as “the best platform in the world” for commercial application development. “You cannot develop serious, portable applications on Android,” Lane said, noting that the Web app development platform behind webOS can port applications to Android, Apple iOS, and Windows, as well as webOS.
For complete coverage of the discussion with Lane and Robison at the InformationWeek 500 Conference, please visit http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterprise_apps/231601245.
The 2011 InformationWeek 500 Conference takes place at the St. Regis Monarch Beach in Southern California from September 11 – 13. Attending are more than 325 influential CIOs and IT executives representing companies such as FedEx, JetBlue Airways, San Francisco Giants, Vail Resorts and Prudential Financial. The conference is sponsored by: Cognizant, Dell and Intel, HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division, IBM, Information Builders, Microsoft, MphasiS (an HP company), Rimini Street, Inc., Riverbed, SuccessFactors, Syniverse, VMware, Vidyo, Inc., and Workday.”
Tags: 2011, Android, autonomy, bay area, california, change, Chief Technology Strategy Officer, computer, Editorial Director, enterprise, Fritz Nelson, hardware, hewlett packard, hp, InformationWeek, ipad, it, pc, Ray Lane, San Francisco, Shane Robison, St. Regis Monarch Beach, strategy, svp, tablet, TouchPad, vendor, web, webOS
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
OMG, it’s the Tech Beat Up, brought to you by White Collar Brawler. It’s a charity deal at the Rock It Room on Clement this Thursday, November 11, 2010. (What better way can you think of to honor our military veterans?)
A few of the contenders:
Now, even though they’ll be using inflatable gloves, the techster with the most actual boxing skillz is sure to win.
All the deets:
“Ashkon and White Collar Brawler Team Up For Newest Web Sensation: “The Tech Beat Up”
Local Web Series Hosts Inflatable-Ring Boxing Tournament Between the Most Influential Tech Companies in the Bay Area
The boxing tournament portion of the night will consist of tournament-style competitions between employees from Apple, Google, IBM, Zynga, Yelp, and many more. For each contest, the boxers will duke it out in a bouncy castle with safe, inflatable gloves for two 45-second rounds. Winners will be determined by audience applause.
Meet the fighters and the companies participating in the Tech Beat Up: http://whitecollarbrawler.com/techbeatup/thefighters/
Nate Houghteling, one of the event organizers and also a star of White Collar Brawler, said the following about the Tech Beat Up: “White Collar Brawler is a show about two friends who escape the cubicle life to pursue our dreams. With the Tech Beat Up, we’re helping people join in on that liberating experience. Plus, who doesn’t want to see a software engineer from Apple and a product manager from Google go at it (safely) for lifelong Internet glory and bragging rights?”
All proceeds from the event benefit ZeroDivide, a nonprofit organization that leverages technology to benefit disadvantaged communities in the Bay Area and beyond.
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White Collar Brawler is a documentary web series set in San Francisco that follows two lifelong friends, ivy league grads, and former white collar workers as they leave the office life behind and train to become boxers. The two will fight each other in December. New episodes of White Collar Brawler are released, in real-time, on Tuesdays and Fridays of every week at www.WhiteCollarBrawler.com.
Tech Beat Up Event Details:
When: Thursday, November 11
Where: Rock-It Room, 406 Clement St. (between 5th and 6th)
Tags: 2010, 406, apple, bay area, Benefit, bouncy castle, box, boxing, california, charity, clement, day, documentary, Employees, fight, google, ibm, inner, nonprofit, richmond, rock it room, rocket room, Saleforce, San Francisco, series, tech, Tech Beat Up, web, White Collar Brawler, yelp, ZeroDivide
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
I’ll tell you, back in my day, the ideal graduation gift for rich kids was a baby BMW of some sort – you know, with a giant bow atop a convertible roof. But Steve Jobs is trying to upset the Apple cart by getting people to think that an iPad is the best gift for matriculates.
I don’t know, maybe it is. However, this new ad campaign…
…says the iPad is ”The Best Way to Experience the Web.”
First of all, Apple means the best portable way to experience the web, right? And then, what’s this deal about using the word ”experience” as a verb? (Is “experiencing the web” a passive event like watching a movie? Are you a creator, at least sometimes, or a merely a consumer of the Web? Mmmm.)
Anywho, the big beef, of course, if the absence of Adobe’s Flash. I know that it, like a strong federal government, might whither away at some point, as Lenin said, but we aint there yet, comrade. In 2010, anyway, You Can’t “Experience” the Web Without Flash.
The smaller beef would be the absence of industry-standard inputs and outputs. I’ll tell you, I wouldn’t trade my aging netbook, which is worth about $100 and was somewhat crippled by one of the many Intel vs. NVIDIA spats, for any kind of iPad. I mean, iPads can’t run Photoshop or nothing, right? (BTW, is there an App for Photoshop? I’d like to see what that would look like. Srsly.) Oh, to run ‘Shop I’d need a MacBook Air (Apple’s name for their expensive netbook with hinges that used to fall apart if you looked at them the wrong way) or a four-figure laptop? Oh, O.K.
Hey kids, you’ve taken your SATs, right? Try this:
Regular Web is to expensive, portable, compromised iPad Web as
Regular bike is to expensive, portable, compromised Dahon Brompton bike.
Brompton folding bikes are nice for the people who use them for commuting. (They’re pretty expensive, and there are a lot of design compromises involved of course.) These things are popular, but are they The Best Way to Experience Cycling? Hells no.
A regular bike is cheaper AND better for most people of course.
Just saying.
(Time’s tide will smother you, Apple.)
Tags: adobe, app, apple, best, dahon, Experience, flash, gift, graduation, intel, ion, ipad, netbook, nvidia, portable, San Francisco, steve jobs, usb, verb, web
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
It begins, the independent expenditure against the gubernatorial dreams of Margaret Cushing “Meg” Whitman begins, with a single radio ad.
Appears as if the former brand manager for Mr. Potato(e) Head and the Teletubbies is going to take a few more hits before all this is done.
But it’s your choice – you can sign up now for Meg’s site, or you can sign up with the anti-Meg site, complete with Facebook and Twitter pages (but, alas, nothing on the Google Buzz so far.)
Trust Level the Playing Field 2010 to quickly direct you to new articles like Dan Walters’ “arrogant cowardice” bit in today’s Sacramento Bee:
“Running for or being governor of California is not the same thing as being the CEO of a multibillion-dollar corporation surrounded by sycophants. Ultimately, remaining in her cocoon will probably backfire. If Poizner cannot exploit her cowardice, Jerry Brown surely will.”
(Ouch.)
Choose or Lose, Vote or Die.
Tags: 2.0, 2010, ace, anti, arrogant, arrogant cowardice, Averell, Averell "Ace" Smith, buzz, california, CEO, Choose or Lose, chris lehane, cowardice, Cushing, dan walters, eBay, facebook, google, Governor, gubernatorial, independent expenditure, jerry brown, level the playing field, ltpf, ltpf 2010, ltpf2010, Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman, Margaret Cushing Whitman, meg, meg whitman, mr potato head, networking, poizner, radio, sacramento bee, San Francisco, Smith, social, Steve, teletubbies, twitter, Vote or Die, web, website
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Well, here’s the news of the day – San Francisco-based Yelp, Inc., San Francisco’s social networking, user review, and local search web site, will be soon be hiring 200 plus folks at a huge, brand-new office in Scottsdale, AZ.
Interested Arizonians (or just anybody, I s’pose) should regularly monitor Yelp.com/jobs to get in on the action before the madding crowd. Read all the deets below, if you want to hear the Arizona Department of Commerce and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council crowing over their win.
Scottsdale Mayor W.J. “Jim” Lane just drank our milkshake, all the way from the 480. Drank it up! Why? It must have something to do with the Bay Area lacking a “strong infrastructure and an educated talent pool of potential employees.” Read CEO Jeremy Stoppelman’s full quote below. And while you’re at it, feel free to read between the lines. Granted, Yelpers in San Francisco will soon have a little more elbow room, but it’s difficult to see today’s news as something other than a big dis to SF and the bay area.
Let’s remember the good times, back in aught-five when most Yelpers worked in town. Via Yelp.com:
Another from Yelp.com‘s infamous 2005 XXX-mas party:
Sic transit gloria Web 2.0 in the 415
Bono, what hath you wrought?
Yelp to Open Office in Scottsdale. San Francisco-Based Technology Company Plans To Hire More Than 200 Locally This Year
Yelp, the community-led local search site, today announced it is opening an office in Scottsdale, Arizona, as it increases hiring to support the company’s U.S. and international expansion.
The San Francisco-based technology company plans to hire more than 200 people this year for the office, which will be located in the Scottsdale Corporate Galleria, and is looking to fill positions across numerous departments, in particular sales and account management.
Yelp, which connects consumers with great local businesses through user-written reviews and ratings on its site, has seen rapid growth in recent years. More than 29 million people used the site last month and review content has doubled in the last year to more than 9 million. Started in San Francisco in 2004, Yelp is available throughout the U.S. and Canada, and expanded to the U.K. and Ireland last year.
“Scottsdale and the greater Phoenix area have a vibrant and growing Yelp community,” said Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO and co-founder of Yelp. “The region is also a great place to locate a technology business, having a strong infrastructure and an educated talent pool of potential employees. We are excited to make Scottsdale home to our third Yelp office and the hundreds of future Yelp employees who will live, work and play in this great area.”
Don’t stop now, ever more, after the jump
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
This coastal Western Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma californica, aka California Jay, Long-tailed Jay ) in Golden Gate Park don’t like them spiders. You can tell because the blue jay spotted a web from a great distance, found a tasty, 8-legged, 4-eyed treat (Araneus trifolium, aka Pumpkin Spider) and then mashed it into bits.
Nummers!
Click to expand:
Per the comments section, perhaps “arachnophagic” is a better term to use…
Tags: Aphelocoma californica, Arachnophobia, Arachnophobic, Araneus, arboretum, botanical garden, California Jay, Coastal, golden gate park, jay, Long-tailed Jay, pumkin, pumpkin, spider, strybing, trifolium, web, Western Scrub Jay
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Sitemeter is a tool that lets you see how many people come to your website, usually. But on September 13, 2008, the people at Sitemeter started rolling out a new interface that proved unpopular for various reasons. (“Sitemeter sucks” was a typical comment, but I could never get that far along the migration process to see for myself.)
So, the Sitemeter Team decided to roll back to the status quo ante [this is good] but they are having problems getting this done [this is bad]. Their entire website is down currently so it’s hard to read their apology from yesterday. See below for Sitemeter’s thoughts on this whole affair.
This is what “Sitemeter Classic” looked like, before the attempted migration:
The word from SM. Come back soon, Sitemeter.
Our Apologies -
September 14, 2008 ·
Dear Valued SiteMeter Customers,
As you’re no doubt aware by now, we’ve chosen to roll back our website to the previous “classic” version.
Based on some performance issues we were experiencing along with feedback from the community it appears we have pushed our new site live prematurely.
Our intention is and has always been to offer you, our customer’s better tools and more accurate data. Obviously we fell short of this. The first thing we need to do, moving forward, is to roll out new product releases in parallel to our current platform. This will give everyone a chance to try out, evaluate, and comment on our new concepts.
We would also like to take this opportunity to ask those of you who had issues or concerns with the new site to participate in future beta testing. We had originally asked for Beta Tester in two of our newsletters sent earlier this year so we’re eager to build our beta group even larger. If you’re interested in participating please send us an email using our support ticketing system with BETA TESTER in the subject line of your email.
In the near term we’ll be evaluating the performance issues and feedback from our community. If you have additional input that would help us build you a better product we’d like to hear from you.
We apologize for the botched rollout and will do our best to make sure the next time we do this it has your full support and blessing.
Sincerely,
The SiteMeter Team
Tags: counter, migration, site meter, sitemeter, statistics, stats, tool, upgrade, web
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