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from Gina Trapani’s Amazon plog
Archive for February, 2007
links for 2007-02-28
February 28, 2007Testing an Amazon link
February 26, 2007Does wordpress.com really filter out Amazon links? Let’s see:
Here’s a link to my book, The Power of Many.
links for 2007-02-08
February 8, 2007-
jim goldstein sent me this link too but nate connects it to the concept of the attention economy
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via george kelly
MyBlogLog is looking for a community manager
February 8, 2007If you’re an experienced blogger in the Bay Area and would like to work for a cool startup recently acquired by Yahoo!, in Berkeley, then you may want to apply for this new community manager role: The MyBlogLog Blog: Seeking: MyBlogLog uber-user for long-term relationship
They seem to grok the Craig Newmark idea that customer service is a key part of growing their business.
Getting hip to the yubnub hub bub
February 7, 2007My pal Ted Nadeau just hipped me to yubnub, which bills itself as a social command line for the web. It looks like an extremely powerful meta-syntax for accessing searches and other web services via unix-y looking shorthands, regular expressions, and mini-scripts. It also seems to have a very active community rapidly extending its capabilities.
Grazing through the yubnub blog you can see news about an instant-mashup command, a way to invoke automatic spellchecking of your search on the fly, a fellow who says he is starting to handwrite his notes to himself in yubnub shorthand, and a way to invoke yubnub commands via Yahoo Open Shortcuts.
It’s also possible to install yubnub into Firefox so for example you can run a Yahoo! search from the address bar with “y y searchterm” (the first y invokes yubnub and the second one specifies a yahoo search – you’d use “y g etc” for a Google search and so on).
The energy of the user community is fairly inspiring.
UPDATE: I notice that the blog peters out around April of last year so, (a) this is not really new news to anyone but me, and (b) what happened to the blog?
New York is very very cold
February 6, 2007Surprised my dad this weekend by showing up on Friday, courtesy of JetBlue, to help celebrate his 70th birthday. It’s hard to believe he’s really 70 because aside from the white hair he seems just about the same as always. As much as he may complain about age or infirmity or his physical condition he seems to have some fountain of youth in his genes keeping him feisty and kicking.
We went out to dinner at a nice bistro my brother picked out Friday night and then more surprises followed as all the siblings showed up on Saturday and we had a great dinner with a few friends and admirers of my dad along with the whole family at cozy little Table d’Hote, a restaurant owned by a family friend that’s just a block or two away from my parents’ homestead on the upper east side.
The weather was incredibly frigid. The wind would knife through our clothes and freeze us in a way that triggers some sort of deep primal panic. Inside it was always toasty warm so you end up managing your layers constantly and both inside and out the air was incredibly dry so now my lips are chapped and my sinuses are still recovering.
I had a cold when we left town and I’ve still got one now but somehow during the two dinners I would forget I was sick and just enjoy the bonhomie. It was also great seeing my little nephews, who are growing up so fast, the two four year-olds and my 17-month old godson, who tears around the place like an energizer bunny destroying everything in his wake. The older boys are talking up a storm, singing and playing and asking questions. One told me “You’re silly, like my dad.” They still seemed a bit confused that their dad is my younger brother and that we all grew up in the apartment we were crammed into over the weekend.
On Sunday they had me drawing custom pictures, one of a giraffe named Jeanine and the other of a normal boy named Brian. It made me want to learn Flash so I can do some animations for them. I’ve always wanted to illustrate some stories of Fraidy Cat and the Cloth Monkeys (with special guest Hoppy the Bunny).
JetBlue was great on the way out, a perfect smooth uncrowded unhurried ride on Friday (I took a personal day off from my new job) but the return flight on Sunday was another story. We were delayed over an hour on the tarmac waiting for our pilot to arrive from a flight from Orlando. Most of the passengers watched the superbowl but B watched the ice skating finals and I watched an X-Men movie on Fox, except for when they would break in on us with a loud eardrum-shattering electronic popping sound to give us another update on our delay.
We weren’t home in bed in Oakland till about 2:30 am Monday morning and I’m still feeling a little tired at work today, but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
Signing up for the sake of signing up
February 6, 2007Grab your preferred username at Useless Account before someone else does!
Today’s web is crazy. Open ID is a pipe dream. Every direction you turn you’re forced to create yet another account. Most of the time it’s for one of those throw-away web startups created 10 times a day, but occasionally it’s worth the effort. It might be to purchase some fancy threads, order a pizza or see how fat the Cool Kids from high school have become. When it’s that important, you can’t afford to drop the ball. With a useless account you can practice without fear. So when it comes to the crunch, you’re ready! Sign up now!
not another blog! 