Personalised URLs

Just implemented some great new functionality on the http://www.livechatconcepts.com/ websites.

Type out any of our 13 website urls followed by your /username and it now leads to a users personal profile popup.
eg. - http://www.LiveBasketballChat.com/dean.collins
or -- http://www.LiveFootballChat.com/bweschke

Getting there slowly but surely.

Cheers,
Dean

Liz Freaking Phair !!!!!!

I cant believe it i just found out Liz Phairis touring to NY !!!!!!

Just bought two tickets to Monday night the 13th of December at the Bowery Ballroom  If you've never heard of Liz Phair i just updated the Mood Music of the Day box (top right -->>).

There are very few artists who know how to let you into their private moments in a way that you just cant help respect, Liz Phair shares in a way that is vulnerable while still being a sex goddess you want to head under the bleachers with.


Cheers,
Dean

Snow in November?? are you serious?

Hmmm it's not really snow more ice crystals but seriously.....it's the first week of November.

This cant be a good omen for the coming winter.



Julia Gillard - what a waste of space

http://media.smh.com.au/national/selections/clinton-touches-down-in-melbourne-2030340.html

Julia Gillard you idiot. I cant believe you just said that about Melbourne.

- That comment alone about Melbourne shopping probably just put back female roles in politics 10 years.

You are a waste of space.


Cheers,
Dean

George Lois cracks me up

His 2003 book George Lois - Sellebrity arrived from Amazon this week and i settled in with a coffee or three to have a read.

This guys sums up his poignant attitude in the first sentence;

"Enlisting a celebrity to sell cat food, an airline or a lube job would seem to be a delusional strategy, fraught with irrationality (and seeming suspiciously to be motivated by a starfucker mentality) But lets face it, it's a starstruck world. We're all suckers for a famous face".

George Lois calls it like he sees it but delivers campaigns that make you want to open your wallet and buy anyway. This guy is a genius (oh and he's got you by the balls).


Cheers,
Dean

Ringback advertising

Ringback advertising, would you allow this if your carrier gave you a call discount?
- http://www.thepudding.com/en/audio-interactive-reverse


Cheers,
Dean

Is "Checking In" wearing out it's welcome?

Is the act of Checking In over for good?
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=138970

Dennis Crowley spoke yesterday at Adtech about how Foursquare expected to move to a GPS solution that buzzed you to ask if you wanted to check in if you visited a place you had checked i previously eg turning a 4 step process into a 2 step process (though requiring a back end application to be running continuously....how you going to do that on a iPhone?)


I do agree though, checking in for the sake of checking in seems to be wearing out it's welcome.

There needs to be something else in the backend to "quid pro quo" the desire to interact.
At http://www.livechatconcepts.com/ we "check in" users when they interact with one of our sites eg http://www.livefootballchat.com/ or http://www.livebasketballchat.com/ etc but at the end of the day checking in and posting a note out to your twitter and facebook accounts saying you just logged in secondary;The primary purpose is being on the site to chat live while watching the game.

Yes badge information is interesting but you need to provide more to keep your users coming back.

Cheers,
Dean

CSIRO wifi over tv?

Love how CSIRO kicks butt when it comes to wifi patents (they developed a lot of what you already use).

- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/11/03/164217/Aussie-Research-Company-Brings-Wi-Fi-To-TV-Antenna

 
Cheers,
Dean

Pssword hack iso cd

Just used my windows password change iso cd to boot up into and hack my own webserver that i forgot the admin password on - I wish i knew who wrote this code, if they lived near me they would never pay for another drink in their life again.


Cheers,
Dean

apathetic?

I'm watching the news and everyone is predicting a republican landslide because they suggest that the republican supporters are more fired up.

If you are a democrat voter why wouldn't this encourage you to make the effort to go and vote today?

I dont get it.

What was it about the vote 2 years ago that swept Obama to power only to have you so apathetic just 2 years later?