• January 17th, 2008
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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 1st, 2008
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I don’t know whether I have been avoiding sticking my foot in my mouth, or just plain uninterested in most things, but one of my resolutions for 2008 is to break my awful habit of lurking around.

Most of my interaction with my development/designer colleagues has been face to face when I attend SXSW, but that interaction quickly dies off shortly after my visit to Austin every year. The problem is entirely my own fault - I’m just bad at keeping in touch - something I need to work on. But I’m not attending SXSW in ‘08 for the first time in 3 years, my only option is to put myself “out there”.

I’ve been lurking my whole career and I need a change. I want to increase the readership of somedirection and the only way to do that is to crawl out of this little cave I’ve built for myself on the Internet. One of the first places I’m starting this “coming out party” is in the successful 9rules community run by a pair of my SXSW friends Mike Rundle and Paul Scrivens. There’s a lot of things I’m excited about in 2008 and the wheels are in motion for this to be a great year.

So I welcome my readers, speak up! Quit hiding! Become involved. Let’s get a salad of comments going here!

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