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Banner day for EMI: “OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights“

(Via @johnsgunn.)

Awesome animated ad for Google Chrome:

(Via Official Google Mac Blog.)

EastLink’s “Search Manager”

Any “service” that has to describe itself as “… not Spy-ware or Mal-ware …” needs to be deep-sixed.

Worse, I’ve opted-out of this “service” multiple times. Think about that.

Where does any ISP get off thinking it’s their job to fix the internet in the first place? This is where Net Neutrality should be enforced. If they want the legal protections of ‘common carrier’ status, they should have nothing whatsoever to do with what’s coming over the pipes, let alone interjecting their name and ad-messaging just because I mistyped a domain name.

Complain to EastLink using their contact form.

Here’s a great article on Search Engine Optimisation: Derek Powazek – Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists: “The good advice is obvious, the rest doesn’t work…”

In February, 2008, I wrote about leaving Basecamp, 37signals’ web-based project-management software.

At the time, I was frustrated by features that were — and, I believe, remain — missing:

1. There’s no way to see an overview of all Milestones across projects
2. There’s no way for a project manager to see all to-dos assigned to everyone across projects

While these limitations were frustrating, other solutions seemed to offer a way around them, imperfect though they seemed even at the beginning…

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