Crumpled Notebook

I know I say this all the time and never get brave enough to make any major changes here, but, I do have a new design coming that I working on lately.

Presentation links and downloads from SF WordCamp 2008…updated throughout the day.

LOLcats & the Secret of Virality –Ben Huh

Open Source Business Models –Stephen O’Grady

The Future of Education and WP –Alan Levine

CogDogBlog –Alan Levine

SEO Mistakes (PowerPoint Download) –Stephan Spencer

SEO Title Tag Plugin –NetConcepts

Twelve SEO Mistakes Article –Stephan Spencer

NetConcepts

Wordpress & Microformats: Past, Present, Future –Tantek Celik

BuddyPress –Andy Peatling

Om Malik

Crazyhorse Demo –Liz Danzico & Janes Wells

I’m disappointed with the Gmail labs launched this week. I know this is just what Googlers do in their 20% time, but everything in the lab is nearly useless in function. I mean, who really needs a random signature? Sure it might be fun, but why not working on something like a Signature Picker to start with. The Quick Links could be useful, but Superstars, pictures in chat, custom date format, SNAKEY? Seriously? So, a few of this could be useful to a handful of people like the Quick Links and the Custom Keyboard Shortcuts (the only truly useful one I see on the list). Email Addict? Maybe, but geez, if you need your email program to tell you to take a 15 minute break, you have bigger issues that being addicted to email.

How about some of the following:

• Signature Picker
• Better Contact Manager
• A folder option for all those people who keep screaming about it that can’t figure out labels
• an option to not add every email you send to your address book
• Sub-labels
• message sorter
• notes to yourself in messages
• auto text

Just to name a few upgrades I’d like to see…

GodTube Raises $30 Million

I think that is cool, but come on, trademarking “Jesus 2.0″ is just ridiculous. I don’t personally use it much because there is far more good content on YouTube, but if you don’t like searching through all the other stuff, then GodTube might be a good alternative.

Looks like a guy started a new video sharing site for Salvation Army people as well. SallyTube. Come on, can’t we get a little more creative with our website names? It doesn’t look to be official and I can’t help to wonder how The Salvation Army as a whole will feel about it, considering the dislike of Unsite. But I still would argue that, if done correctly, it shouldn’t be a bad thing for the SA.

Not my new website, but a site I’ve been working on off and on for a while now is finally live. We’re making small changes as we go along, like the logo, but it’s pretty much done. It’s for JohnXXIII HIV/AIDS Services. You should check it out.

Great part is most of my work was just setting it up, customizing the layout and design. Sara and Daniel did most of the work of adding the content, which is the great part about Wordpress–they can self-manage their website.

Anyway, the other one I’m working on should be done shortly after I get back from my vacation–at least the first round of stuff should be done by then so it can go live as well.

Once I’ll get back, I’ll have to post some links to the stuff I’ve been working on lately. Next thing to tackle is cleaning up the Corps website and my iste. I hate it right now–both of them. Can’t tell that much from the outside, but I’ve hacked away at so much stuff in there I’m ready to start fresh and clean them up.