updates @ m.blog

Evan Williams recently posted a much-blogged article titled Pageviews Are Obsolete. This is something Cameron and I have been arguing for at Yahoo! for a long time now, but from an almost mostly different perspective (our interest is not advertising, but social metrics for measuring the success of a site in various areas). […]

Random co-worker chimes in on a mailing list with a very accurate summation of Adobe (former Macromedia) Flash:
“Browsing without Flash is like going to the movies without ringing cell phones and crying babies. Every once in a while you miss out on a really cool ring tone, but it’s nothing to lose sleep over.”
When […]

Prompted by Tom’s post, I’ve decided to also try out this Odeo voice message for the sake of amusement. Click the icon below to use your laptop’s built in microphone to record a private voice message for me (or in the popular vernacular, PODCAST TO THE BLOGOSPHERE OMG!!!). I won’t do anything with […]

Big news from Yahoo! today: our very talented User Experience Design team is constantly slaving away to make all those fancy and complicated widgets that make building increasingly-complex web applications possible. In particular, there is one team that works on a standardized library available to all Yahoos to take advantage of when coding a […]

Shopping for a new laptop today, I noticed this:
del.icio.us favicon/toolbar: /
lenovo.com favicon:
Say what?

What social bookmarking service should I use? I had originally started with del.icio.us, but when I started working at Yahoo! I decided to start using MyWeb2.0 beta, as part of the “eat your own dog food” philosophy. In doing so, I discovered I actually liked MyWeb quite a bit, and it had unique […]

Recently, Matt McAlister made reference to a tangential conversation we had about interface and utility during a meeting about user interaction models. It’s something I’ve been thinking quite a bit about over the past year, so I figure its worth a bit more discussion. What I really see coming about on the WWW […]

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Know thy audience, originally uploaded by mroth.

Diagram on one of my whiteboards at work, enlargement.

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing my good friend Jake Appelbaum speak at Webzine2005.
I met Jake at Defcon some years ago, and we eventually became close friends. When I moved to the Bay Area, Jake was the only friend I had who lived in the area, and he stepped up to […]

What is it with monkeys and the web anyhow?
Lot of talk lately about Greasemonkey, which is essentially a filtering proxy server integrated into a Firefox extension. It lets users share scripts that will alter websites via pattern matching, typically in ways that privilege the reader’s experience (e.g. automatic redirection to the printer friendly version […]

This is in partly in response to Nancy Van House’s post on Blog Spam. I had planned to post this as a comment on her weblog, but she has become so innudated with blogspam that she has completely disabled comments. So, I’ll post it on my weblog instead, and hope TrackBack works.
Weblog spam […]

A new Scientific American article talks about CAPTCHA (”completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”) systems being used to prevent spambots from accessing certain web data. Currently, the systems typically work by providing a graphic image of an distorted word on a patterned background, and asks the user to type […]