As seen on Tech Crunch tonite, Craig’s List is modifying their “Erotic Services” category and tightening up rules to stamp out the apparent widespread use of its site for prostitution.
With a generation of parents now raising their kids to eat healthier, Frito Lay (maker of Doritos) is targeting a demographic whose parents did not know and who regularly closes down the bar. Yes, I just tasted the newest of the Dorito line – Last Call Jalapeno Popper Doritos. While they are delicious, I can’t help but think that kids begging their parents for a snack will not get the “last call” part… sorta like how kids didn’t catch the sexual innuendos in all those Disney movies – you know like the topless girls in the Rescuers. While, I doubt kids eating these will explicitly turn into bar flys latter in life, I don’t suggest they come out with lines targeted at other additions. Imagine “Burnt thin crust pizza doritios” targeted at people who do X, or “Cheesy Puff Doritos” targeted at Methheads who are missing teeth.
At work last week we launched a “share story” tool. It is a tool to allow you to share a story with up to 25 each of mutual friends on the site, your groups, and e-mails. I worked on the original version for Netscape.com as well as the new one that integrated the groups aspect for Propeller.com. The feature had been noticeably absent since the re-launch of the site over the summer. I hate to pat myself on the back, but it is a pretty slick feature.
After hearing about Edible Estates I decided I must have a food garden this year somehow.
Here are some interesting bits and media coverage – both social and traditional, about the Web Challenge 09. Enjoy.
The Overnight Challenge wrapped up around 10:30 or so today. The overall winner of the event was the organization District 202 (old site here) and their team Praxis. I can’t say for sure on how the judging was conducted, but I’m sure the key was the overall impact to the organization on fulfilling their mission rather than merely the things that “geeks” would otherwise hold dear. If I remember correctly, Praxis set up some sort of 3rd party community platform through Ning. I don’t know much about Ning, but the theme this year was definiatly reaching constituents through social media integrations. I also think most groups ended up going with some sort of pre-rolled CMS too. We, and a few others, used Wordpress – which after this long weekend, I think more and less of as a piece of software.
Weee. Programming is wrapping up and I think we made it. Everyone is just shuffling around like zombies… zombies on Redbull. We’re about to do our presentations and get the F out of Dodge. In retrospect, this was a thumbs up… but I will definitely be glad when it is over.
Here is some video footage we made of our group as example videos for YEA Corps. We set up some hip crazy cool you tube integrations for their projects and posted this for some demo content. Spladoinkle.
Wee…. still working… listening to Smodcast re-runs since I don’t have any music on my computer. Why does it seem that so much of my life is dedicated to building form styles? Lame. This needs redbull…
