grant watson - software engineer

101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes
“some of funniest, and most controversial, quotes known to man. Even a list of 101 quotes is just scratching the surface. In no particular order here are his 101 best…”
(tags: humour quotes)

Facebook Ads as good as AdWords in 2000? I don’t think so!
“If a user is searching on Google for a [...]

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Datejs: A Truly Slick Date Script
“You type in a date into the form box in a just about any way you can imagine (semantically or with standard dashes and slashes), and it will translate that into a formatted, database friendly version of the date. It is everything I’ve ever wanted in a
(tags: javascript programming tools)

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The Top 20 Ways to Come Up With Amazing Ideas
(tags: ideas creativity howto list)

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Inside View from Ireland: Facebook Perils
“But I believe the education message is the way to go, not to shut down the sites or block their usage. We have entered an era of personal information security and those first clicks into Bebo or Facebook are just a start in a lifetime of online social ne
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Seth’s Blog: Making your customers uncomfortable
“Better is not always better, at least according to some measures.”
(tags: marketing strategy)

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The Crowd Finally Gets It: They Can Group Up And Manipulate AdSense
“The thing is, AdSense is just too easy to abuse. Click an ad, and there goes a couple of dollars. Turn it into a meme or a viral joke and thousands go down the drain, together with the entire idea of click-based ads. In [...]

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MillNic Media Blog - The Best CPA network
(tags: facebook business advertising marketing)

Points Based Facebook Applications
What works on facebook is not a “Sports fan” application, not even a “Baseball” or “Hockey” fan app. What facebook users want is a drill down to simplicity and have a “South Surrey AAA PeeWee Slow Pitch Baseball League for One [...]

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Facebook’s Brilliant but Evil design - Bokardo
“What kills me about what Facebook is doing is how good the design is. At every step they’ve done things almost perfectly. They’ve pinpointed the motivations of users at each step, and designed the screens in such a way as to make the default action t
(tags: facebook design marketing [...]

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Poker Bots on the Rise: A Guest Blog - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
“In the very near future, online poker may become a suckers’ game that humans won’t have a chance to win. Bots are quite scale-able and it will be virtually impossible to prohibit computer or computer-assisted online playing”
(tags: computing games [...]

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How To: Block Project Beacon
“Project Beacon is obviously in full effect now, and it only took a day for folks to progress through varying states of emotion and spring into action in terms of finding a way to prevent it.”
(tags: facebook advertising privacy howto firefox javascript)

Foamee: a barnacle app for indebted drinkers - Bokardo
“…the word [...]

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