Portland Bike and Marketing Freak Out
Local web analytics powerhouse WebTrends recently rolled out a new transit ad campaign to demonstrate their ability to measure offline and online sentiment and conversation using the question, "should cyclists pay a road tax?" Kablooie. Cyclist meltdown and freakout. [caption id="attachment_512" align="alignright" width="150" caption="The WebTrends transit ad that has Portland's bike ...
XHTML 2 is Dead
Wow, I didn't see this coming. Zeldman reports that the W3C is not going to renew the XHTML 2 working group's charter this year. That effectively kills XHTML 2 in favor of devoting the resources to the HTML 5 working group. This makes sense in that HTML 5 is already gaining ...
Quick Shopping Cart UX Tip
Most web checkout forms collect credit card information in this order: Card type (e.g. Visa, Mastercard) Card number Security Code (three digits on the back) Expiration Date Name on Card (e.g. DAVID R SELDEN JR) If you go through this process, you'll note that steps 1, 2, 4 and 5 require information from the front of ...
How to Get Your Most Recent Twitter Posts Using PHP with Caching
When we started redesigning the Pop Art blog, one of the chief requirements was to integrate everyone's Twitter feeds into the site. In addition to the Pop Art Twitter feed in the sidebar, we wanted to add individual twitter feeds on the profile pages. The problem is that the javascript ...
“Consumers will have these conversations anyway”
Stumbled across this interesting article about the mobile marketing, teens, and conversational marketing, and loved the following quote from Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC: “Advertisers are terrified of [conversational marketing]. In their hearts, many really don’t want to interact with customers because they are afraid ...
Cross-Site Request Forgery
In this post, I’ll explain a common way the bad guys steal your information. I’ll use the literary technique of schizophrenial-paragraphs to help explain the hacker’s technique. The techie guys gave it an acronym: CSRF, because that’s one of the things that give them pleasure. All spelled out, CSRF looks like ...
Welcome to the New Pop Art Blog!
The new Pop Art blog is live! On the front end, it's sporting a brand-new, and oh-so-spiffy, design, and on the back-end it's been converted to the titan of the blogging world, Wordpress. Please look around, and enjoy the new scenery. And make sure you take a peek at the ...
Bugzilla’s Reset Password Page Sucks
Frequently, my coworkers will forget their Bugzilla passwords. They come to me, because I manage it, and I always send them to the reset password page. Inevitably, they come back a few minutes later and tell me that it didn’t work, and I just reset their passwords by hand. Well, ...
#PABlazers: Leveraging and bridging communities
Twitter is the fastest growing network on the inter-tube-web today, and we are still developing an understanding of its potential. I like that Southwest Airlines could help me out if I miss my flight, or that I may find Shaq in my town handing out free tickets-but what more could ...
An Event Apart Seattle 2009
The night before An Event Apart, I was at a party with some college friends. When they found out I was in town for a conference, they wanted to know what it was about. I said it was a web conference, and they said “Aren’t those usually held on the ...
