Month: April 2007

YUI Grids CSS

Head over to the Google Homepage. Log In using your Google Account. Make sure you’re at your Personalized Homepage. Take a look at the source CSS file ig.css included on the page. There are a few peculiar lines of code that I recognized from another source, the Yahoo User Interface Grids CSS file.

heh. why not come out and admit it? YUI is one of the few things out of yahoo that don’t suck

overrated 37signals

The reason why I canceled my Basecamp account is that I’ve lost faith in 37 Signals. I’m not sure if it’s arrogance from the growth and success of their company, but their glow has fizzled. I’m still a fan of some of the simple functionality of their applications… but the applications as a whole don’t seem to be changing the landscape as they had done in the past.

heh. i actually like 37signals stirring the pot. they are overblown, but the sheeple need more kicks in the groin.

Jaiku vs Twitter

Twitter was funny for me because it was like the whole “laptop crowd” getting the “aha” that Europe and Asia had with SMS awhile back – the idea that the Internet isn’t about “cyberspace” that turns on when you open your laptop, but that the Internet was something that you could carry around with you and that could ping you when it needed you.

Contagious Free trade

The Japanese are concerned about the US-South Korea free trade agreement, and might seek their own trade deal with the United States. The Japanese are afraid of being “left out in the cold.” I’ve also read speculation that a South Korean trade agreement might make Congress look more favorably upon free trade agreements with Latin America. So why might one free trade agreement lead to others?

hopefully, they are. would provide a good counterweight to all the mercantilist and protectionist clowns

Clown Co

News Corp, Microsoft, NBC, AOL, MSN and Yahoo. I’m picturing the meetings. The posturing. The bandwidth provisioning. The advertising meetings. The legal reviews. The pr reviews. The plans. The emails. The cross-functional , inter corporate steering committees. Who pays for what with what? Who is in charge? Who picks the content? Does anyone pick the content? Who can upload? What can they upload? When can they upload? How long will it take to transcode? Can a video be downloaded to iPod? Archos? Zune? Who will monitor the uploads?