Browsing archives for March, 2008

1-Click TinyUrl + Twitter

10 March 2008 | 5 Comments

so me friends @ashafrir and @jeffpulver got me onto twitter a few weeks ago. it’s not hard to notice that everyone and his sister are using tinyurl to, well, tinyurl. the task is tedious (if you’re as lazy as i am) you really want these things to take 1-click. 10 minutes of searching and 10 minutes [...]

NetFlix are tracking interesting things on their site

6 March 2008 | 2 Comments

Every web service provider, web application, content site and what not likes to collect data. Collecting data helps web sites to better understand their users, popular content, usage patterns, and whatever obscurities that are out there. I was just browsing Netflix and noticed that they have chosen to track something very odd, and at first (and [...]