This guy is crazy… crazy-awesome!
Seth Godin’s Community Powered Pricing
Seth Godin is at it again with a community-powered pricing model for his new book, Poke the Box.
The more people who sign up the less we’ll all have to pay for it. Makes sense, right? Get on the list over at The Domino Project and let’s help each other save some money!
Get a Bundle of Resources with BundleHunt
There are a ton of sweet resources (apps, icons, theme, images, and more) for $49 over at BundleHunt. Check it out!
Get Tronified
Everything needs to get Tronified, except my iPhone please.
Block Sites for Google (and Yourself)
A new Chrome extension will now allow you to block search results and sites that you simply aren’t interested in or feel are bad results.
The issue that a lot of people are already bringing up is that it “could” impact results for legitimate sites since it sends Google this feedback:
If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results.
When you block a site with the extension, you won’t see results from that domain again in your Google search results. You can always revoke a blocked site at the bottom of the search results, so it’s easy to undo blocks.
Is this fair? Is this something that could easily be abused? Creating a script that banned your competitors sites repeatedly isn’t hard to create.
It's Just a Progress Bar, Right?
I wonder how much of my life will be spent watching progress bars? Maybe I don’t want to know.
The next time you’re staring at a progress bar, take a good look at it. Does it seem like its going fast or slow? What kind of image effects are being implemented? Have you ever thought about it before?
I sure haven’t, until now:
Simple optical illusions can make it seem like the progress bars on your file downloads are moving faster than they actually are. Ripple effects and pulses of light are among the tricks computer programmers can use to keep you waiting those extra seconds.
Check it out: