• January 17th, 2008
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  • Web Development

I was reading a readwriteweb article (Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook’s Ass in Traffic) on social networks today and they showed some Hitwise data on the most popular social networks (see below).

Chart From Hitwise

I have a MySpace and Facebook profile but I never go on MySpace anymore since FB opened up their network to 3rd party applications. Plus being a web developer I can just tell that FB was built right - as opposed to Myspace which is a giant CF.

So I looked down the list:

1. Myspace - check, I have a profile
2. Facebook - check check, I go there constantly
3. Bebo - Popular in Britain, ok I’m familiar with it
4. BlackPlanet - ???

So I figured I’d check it out. Then I was greeted with THIS Bitch Slapped!!!

Como? Huh? They don’t support the latest version of Camino?

It’s pretty funny that they want you to upgrade to Firefox 2 when Firefox and Camino are both open source projects of the Mozilla Foundation and share exactly the same Gecko rendering engine.

These days with standards based development processes we don’t have to “browser sniff” any longer. If BlackPlanet didn’t get the memo,the right way to go about it is “feature sniffing” with locked down degradation. You should really look into Jeremy Keith’s DOM Scripting and perhaps read A List Apart from time to time. It really pisses me off when I run across this type of neglect on the Internet…

Ongoing List of Neglect

As I find these offenders the list will grow.

• 02/26/08 MakesParties.com
• 03/05/08 Comcast.net

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• January 10th, 2008
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  • Shameless Promotion

Last Christmas I was given AntWorks. I was excited (I wanted it) and I immediately sent my check for $6 off to a company (forget who) to get my ants. I eagerly anticipated their arrival, but alas it was not meant to be. My $6 check was cashed, but no ants ever came.

It took me a year to get over this betrayal. AntWorks was gathering dust on my shelf and I never really gave it a shot, so shortly before New Years I search for and found the best site online to buy ANTS - AntsAlive.com. I was kind of worried if they’d actually show up alive but they came today in a vial, 25 in total. Awesome! ANTS!

I got them into AntWorks as soon as possible because they were probably starving, but they all made it through alive which was good news.

I’m planning on cataloging my ant farm as time goes on. They’re supposed to tunnel through the gel in the AntWorks enclosure - it actually doubles as their food, so it should end up looking pretty cool when it’s illuminated.

I’ll see how this first one goes. Down the line I’d like to wrig up a time-lapsed movie of the ants tunneling. There’s definitely some cool AntWorks videos on YouTube already.

Checkout my flickr photoset - ANTS! for updates.

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