Tag Archives: web 2.0

Improved Animated Scrolling

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Robin

A while back I posted about automatically scrolling between internal links with some jQuery magic (which in turn was based on a tutorial by Learning jQuery) but one problem with it was that there was no way for the user … Continue reading →

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Why I Hate MySpace

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Robin

Here’s a (probably ever-growing) list of reasons why I hate MySpace: User-defined CSS — it might be cool to have a bit of customization, but this takes it too far. Most of the profile pages are either hideous and unusable, … Continue reading →

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Automattic Acquires Gravatar

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Robin

Yess. Yess. Yess. Automattic (a la Matt Mullenweg) has acquired Gravatar, a “global avatar service,” which has been what can only be described as a crapshoot — sometimes Gravatars went down, or at best, were really slow, and for a … Continue reading →

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StumblingUpon

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Robin

Upon the insistence of a friend, I’ve installed the StumbleUpon Firefox extension and I must say I can’t believe I’ve missed out so long. When StumbleUpon first hit the news, I passed it on as a ridiculous fad, but now … Continue reading →

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