Archive for the 'website' Category

Happy Easter!  It seemed appropriate to put together a list of Easter Egg sites, and I’m not talking about the beautiful colored eggs, I mean those little surprises hidden away in movies, DVDs, games, software, and web pages.
Easter Eggs in Movies and DVDs:

DVDEasterEggs - Focuses on Easter eggs in DVDs and helpfully includes the region [...]

I have to confess that I’m mildy addicted to WeeWar, the free online multiplayer strategy game (think turn based Command and Conquer). The site is recently out of beta and has already built an impressive userbase of over 30,000 registered users. It’s fun, addictive, and with turn time limit’s from 5 minutes all the [...]

To fully duplicate the functionality of my instructions on adding TipJoy to your Wordpress theme, the TipJoy TipThis plugin needed to allow users to place a tipjoy badge/banner on the sidebar. So I set out to learn how to create a widget for Wordpress. The results are my earlier Spottt Widget and now [...]

Marketing is hard, well good marketing is hard at least. In an effort to learn a little more about what works and what doesn’t I’ve decided to do what many a mediocre marketing employee has done, borrow liberally from other sources! Spottt has provided a low risk way to experiment and I’ve decided [...]

If you are using Spottt on a Wordpress blog you’ll have to insert the code that Spottt gives you to embed into your theme’s sidebar code. This is hardly user friendly. so I decided to put together the Spottt Wordpress Widget for Wordpress blogs that support widgets. Bookmark this post for updates!
The current [...]

In technology, change is a way of life. Feature stagnation will lead to a competitor jumping ahead of you and an abandonment of your product. At the same time, changes in your product can cause a backlash from users who aren’t happy with the results. A thread on Hacker News is what [...]

TipJoy is a new startup coming out of Y Combinator that aims to help bloggers earn tips from grateful readers and at the same uses the tip data to rank popular sites and articles. I really like the idea and the execution and hope to see these guys succeed, in fact I liked [...]