Entries Tagged 'Design' ↓
July 28th, 2008 — Ajax, Blogging, Business, Community, Design, Marketing, Stranger than Fiction, Wordpress
On Wednesday, New York Times Co. (NYT) reported disappointing second-quarter earnings, and on Thursday the stock continued in its steep descent.
At the end of trading it stood at 12.48, or virtually half the price it commanded one year ago.
This part of the story is unsurprising, given how the Street is slamming any newspaper stock.
What’s startling is something else: If you back out much of the rest of the company’s portfolio, you arrive at a surprisingly teeny valuation for the vaunted New York Times itself, despite all the respect the brand commands.
July 22nd, 2008 — Ajax, Blogging, Books, CMS, CSS, Community, Design, Fireworks, How-to, Humor, Marketing, Microsoft, Photoshop, Pimp that App, Politics, Programming, Ruby on Rails, Stranger than Fiction, Wordpress
It’s time to band together and drop the funk.
Geek is the new hip, haven’t you heard? Geek tattoos are chic. Librarian glasses are sexy. Weird is in. And you can be, too.
Oddly Zen is seeking collaborators and guest-bloggers for full-time, part-time, or one-off content contributions in the areas of:
- Ajax (tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
- Apple
- Blogging (the business, the practice, or general coverage)
- Books (ebooks, free chapters, or book reviews)
- Business
- CMS (reviews, open-source projects, WordPress, etc.)
- Community (open source, Ruby or Rails, social media, etc.)
- CSS (tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
- Design (UI, HCI, UX, etc.)
- Graphics (Photoshop or Fireworks tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
- Humor (geek is funny)
- Linux
- Marketing
- Microsoft
- Open source software
- Pimp that App (case studies, tips, tricks, tutorials, or opinion)
- Politics (active and apathetic)
- Programming (mainly Ruby & Co. — possibly C#, Lisp, Erlang, etc.)
- Stranger than Fiction (truth be told, geeky situations are weird and funny)
- WordPress (development, customization, plug-ins, etc.)
- Your Ideas (if it’s geek, or plain good, we’ll post it)
Increase your reach. Enhance your image. Be flagrantly geeky.
And get some link-backs all from the comfort of your cube.
Note: Think of this as an open-source blog. Contribution should make you feel good. 
Also, I’m looking for someone (preferably one other person) to build a Rails application with. It will be a gift to the community as well — and if it makes any cheese, we’ll donate it.
July 20th, 2008 — Ajax, Design, How-to, Marketing, Pimp that App
Guess who’s back, back again…?
Is your application a hooptie? Could it stand a ghetto-fabulous makeover of MTV-sized proportions? Chances are, even if it is washed and waxed, it could probably move on up to the big time by following a few nuggets of kind reflection.
I’ve been kicking around some thoughts and observations of various social media sites and APIs. And guess what? My eyes have seen the glory of the pimping of your app. That’s right — just follow these golden rules and you, too, can go from limp to pimp.
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