RasterWeb!Kinja is good. Kinja really does fit the bill of being a simple directory/aggregator of content aimed squarely at the non-geek population. I consider myself part of the geek poplulation, so I’ve got other tools to use, but for the casual web user, I think they hit the target quite well.
Well, it seems that Gateway couldn’t pull off the retail store thing, and they are closing all stores. Apple on the other hand, appears to be doing well with it’s stores. Everytime I talk to someone about them, they usually say they find it very difficult to leave without buying something, or at least lusting after some well-designed product.
Even people who aren’t Mac users will go into the Apple store, often to check out the iPod, a consumer electronic device. What’s that? Gateway is all about consumer electronics? Really? Hmmm, I didn’t know that, I thought they were a second rate PC manufacturer.
I wonder if Dell could pull off operating a retail store. My guess is they couldn’t, due to the way they operate, which seems to be about good enough quality and keeping costs low. (User experience be damned!)
The W3C Link Checker version 3.9.2 (the first standalone release) is now available…
Grab the W3C-LinkChecker source if you want…
Now who’s a minor threat?
I remember hearing about Pancake Mountain in an interview with Ian MacKaye a while back, but I didn’t see this until
recently, The Evens performing “Vowel Movement”
Wow, Ian is getting old… (I can’t help but notice the lack of hair!) It’s amazing he’s been making music for more than 25 years now…
I just noticed that if you search Google, you may or may not actually get a display of Sponsored Links in the results. It appears as though if there really are no matching Sponsored Links, they won’t just display some unrelated links. Searching for “no ads here” (at least right now) gives me a result page free of Sponsored Links. Same thing with a search for “Jeremy Zadowny”. (Though Google suggest I might be looking for “Jeremy Zarowny” which I find slightly amusing, since a search for “Jeremy Zarowny” has no results. (Again, as of right now… give it a few hours…) Of course if you spell Jeremy’s name correctly, and search for “Jeremy Zawodny”, you’ll get better results… ;)
I’ll leave it up to you to decide if Google is evil, but not showing totally unrelated Sponsored Links when they could seems like a non-evil thing to do… Oh, and as a sidenote, I’ve been using Yahoo! Search more than AlltheWeb lately…