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I’ll Probably Regret Not Taking Max Ventilla Up on His Job Offer
About a month ago, Max Ventilla the CEO over at The Mechanical Zoo sent me an email wondering if I'd be interested in a position at their stealth startup. He gave me a brief description of what they were working on and told me about all the cool people on their team.
What are they working [...]
Spam in My Gmail Inbox. That’s Blog-Worthy.
I can't remember the last time spam made it to one of my Gmail inboxes. That's what made this afternoon such a surprise. I got some spam.
It's almost refreshing to get spam nowadays (in some odd way). Not only refreshing, but blog-worthy.
I remember back in the day when I used to get tons of crap [...]
I Finally Get Twitter
I know, I know, what a latecomer, right?
Before I get to what my post title alludes to, I need to provide some background info.
First, I have to admit that I'm an avid reader of Techmeme. I read it every day.
What's Techmeme? In short, it tracks technology conversations (blog posts etc) happening online in [...]
How To Get Me to Click a Banner Ad
I never click on banner ads. Seriously. Never.
But, today was different. I clicked on a banner ad. Some genius has created a viral campaign that I'm sure will take over the Internet soon.
Here's the play-by-play for how someone got me to click a banner ad:
1) I was browsing RealClearPolitics a solid political site [...]
My Top Ten Keywords is Bad News for the NBA
Here are my top ten keywords for the past three months:
1. buzzyeah
2. nba stream
3. streaming nba games
4. nba streams
5. live nba streaming
6. basketball games online
7. nba games online
8. nba streaming
9. live basketball games
10. stream nba games online
Nine of my top ten keywords are people searching for streaming/online NBA games. Which is something they won't find [...]
Get a ShareThis Button For Your Blog ASAP
The ShareThis button packs a ton of useful sharing stuff into one clean little button.
What does it do?
When your readers click the ShareThis button a small popup window appears that allows them to easily share posts and pages on your blog or site.
Here it is in action:
It also lets you share stuff via [...]
Comcast Subscribers, Ireland, Philippines, Lithuania Cut Access to NBA League Pass Games
I'm a Comcast high-speed Internet subscriber and I haven't been able to view live (or archived) NBA games on the NBA's League Pass Broadband site for over a week.
For awhile I just thought that my saved log-in info needed to be re-entered. But that doesn't seem to be the problem since I re-entered my correct [...]
New Feature: Ask Us a Question via Askablogr
We are officially introducing a new category called "Ask Mail."
We want readers to ask questions and we will try to answer them. Some questions (plus answers) will get posted to BUZZYEAH. You can view all our reader questions on our Askablogr profile.
Use the "Ask me a question" button over on the right sidebar to ask [...]
Blowing My Mind: Custom Clips on Hulu
Wow. Hulu's "Create a Custom Clip" tool blows my mind.
I don't know why I didn't discover this tool earlier. Does anyone know how long it has been available?
For those that don't know Hulu is NBC Universal and News Corporations' (Fox etc) online video site. You can go there to watch full-length TV shows (old and [...]
Google + 2008 GOP Convention = Awesome
Note: This post means to be politically neutral.
I was just browsing Techmeme and came across an awesome conversation thread... Google is the Republican National Convention's Official Innovation Provider.
What will Google bring to the 2008 GOP Convention?
They are going to help streamline the convention organization and and expand its online reach across websites, mobile devices, blogs, [...]
