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“The Social Network” and a Personal Reflection on the Past Decade
It is hard to describe what I felt watching The Social Network. I knew going in that much of the account it presented of Facebookâs founding was fictional. Certain things, however, hit too close to home not to make me at least a bit sentimental and a bit embarrassed as well. Why should I feel … Continue reading
How we used to encourage people to click our banner ads
Ron Gallagher just dug up some hilarious code we wrote back in the days designed to induce people to look at and ultimately click on our banner ads. Note, this is not recommended or even legal with most ad networks (e.g. Google Adsense) today. This code was written ten years ago when things still a … Continue reading
RateMyFace makes the New York Times, sort of…
NY Times: ‘Face Time,’ With a Twist Times reporter Matt Richtel called me this week to discuss the rapid growth of my first RateMy site, RateMyFace. Two days ago Matt called me back and told me his editors couldn’t publish our URL in the article since we allow users age 13 and up (whereas AmIHotorNot … Continue reading
