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Posts Tagged ‘genius’
Facebook’s outbound link brilliance
In Media on December 23, 2008 at 12:06 pmAs best as I can tell, this just started today. When I clicked on a link posted by one of my friends (hey Chip!), the resulting page, which was on a WordPress blog, looked like this:
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A couple notable items:
- The banner at the top is unobtrusive enough not to be annoying, but gives the option of bringing the conversation back to Facebook, where you’re more likely to know people and follow along — generating more FB pageviews.
- The URL on the page is a FB URL. I wonder how much havoc this creates with the visited site’s traffic logs?
- The banner stays until you hit the x or type a new URL. I’d like to see it go away after a couple clicks.
- We’ll implement something inspired by this for Our Little Business shortly after the holidays. We do a lot of linkout stories where people return to us for conversation and I think this encourages that without being too obtrusive.
Guilty pleasure: Jim Steinman
In Music on December 16, 2008 at 2:28 pm
The greatest worst songwriter of all time
I like to think that I have impeccable, yet Catholic musical tastes. But there’s always been a certain collection of songs that I know violate every rule of good music. They do so without any pretension at subtlety, play on the cheapest human emotions and contain the cheapest of single entendres and bad puns. Treacle and bombast can. and do, coexist.
As a youth, I didn’t know that these songs had anything in common, although I should have: Read the rest of this entry »
“I pray to God and Chevy, lighten up the load that’s heavy”
In Music, PopCult on November 14, 2008 at 4:10 am
Max Stalling
Max Stalling’s “Dime Box, Texas” is the most uplifting sad song ever.
That is all. Read the rest of this entry »