May 2012
1 post
buchok.fm: Review: Beach House—Bloom →
buchokfm:
by Drew Gulan The mark of a truly gifted group of musicians is the ability to follow-up a brilliant collection of songs with even more impressive work, bucking the common trend of spending all of your energy and creativity in one fell swoop. In the case of the Baltimore-based duo Beach House,…
April 2012
5 posts
limit the details: Why Facebook bought Instagram →
limitthedetails:
Insta-book. $1B! 13 employees! 700K+ a day “salary”! Systrom! Photos! Yay! FB! OMG. LOUD VOICES!
Ok, now that Instagram madness is covered above let’s talk about why FB bought. I’m breaking down my thoughts into 2 categories: 1) Why I think FB bought and 2) how they helped justify the price tag….
Took me a while to realize this was you writing. I enjoyed.
buchok.fm: Review: The Shins—Port of Morrow →
buchokfm:
by Drew Gulan It only took until mid-March, but 2012 has finally seen the release of a truly great record: The Shins’ “Port of Morrow”. The year has not been completely barren, with some really solid efforts from Sleigh Bells, Poliça, Air, and the “New Multitudes” tribute album to folk-great…
March 2012
4 posts
Marsha's Blog: My medical leave →
Love you, Mom!
marbuchok:
Hello dear family and friends!
Gearing up for my FMLA - huh? Family Medical Leave Act. - I’ve never had to pay much attention to my employee health benefits. Glad I have ‘em, but I’ve been a healthy gal so haven’t had to think much about them… Until now.
Went in for a routine mammogram on Feb…
How many is too many books to be reading?
I am positive that a person can be reading too many books.
However, an important distinction must be made: Do you have to finish every book you start?
If the answer is, “No, we are not obligated to finish every book we begin reading” (who does?)—the concept of reading too many books becomes a bit more interesting.
Think about your Kindle. (You do have a Kindle, right?)
I...
Short circuiting the short circuit!
I’m constantly confusing myself when calculating timezones for meetings.
9 o’clock a.m. in San Francisco is what time in Madrid? What time is a 3 p.m. meeting in New York? In general, what time is it in Minneapolis?
I’m finally getting around to writing a really simple JS widget to help me calculate differences in key timezones.
However, when calculating the number 0,...
February 2012
5 posts
Image compression resolved?
Previously, I’d staked out four key areas currently plaguing modern advertising within the HTML5 ecosystem:
(Read the post here)
Image compression
Fonts
JavaScript libraries
Streaming
It appears that using the <canvas> element, “image compression” may be knocked off the list.
Using Base64 strings, it is possible to write images directly to the canvas. What does...
Internet of things →
Checking out a presentation this morning.
January 2012
4 posts
When becomes the standard
I remember the first time I learned about YouTube. It was Andy Samberg’s coming out party with Lazy Sunday.
Lazy Sunday was YouTube’s coming out party.
YouTube’s coming out party meant Flash video became the way we watched video on the web*.
Flash video remains the most pervasive way that video is shared, watched and streamed across the web. Despite the iOS embargo.
A...
December 2011
5 posts
“They want to take over the Internet,” he said. “Can you imagine how much we’re...”
– Ron Paul, talking about SOPA and PIPA
Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Slams SOPA | TorrentFreak
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Sants-Atocha
I’m on a train from Barcelona to Madrid.
Wedged amongst all my other identification and credit cards inside the weathered butterfly clip in my pocket is a Spanish residence card.
My name and picture are on this Spanish residence card.
I am an official Spanish resident.
Obtaining my residency was one of my primary personal goals in 2011. It was also one of the biggest challenges of...
November 2011
8 posts
Protect The Internet →
Modern advertising file sizes
A few things happened last week very relevant in the world of advertising.
The IAB announced an update to display guidelines . It had been three years since the last update. Revising the display guidelines is very important as bandwidths and technologies change very rapidly; the world was very different three years ago.
Severely overshadowing the IAB news was Adobe’s announcement that...
Watchvikingore tocó en sala jimmyjazz anoche. fuimos a animar a mi primo, rafael, el guitarrista a la izquierda. ¡qué musica más heavy!
What it is like to work across timezones
Last weekend most of you got an extra hour for daylight savings. For me, I celebrated the coming of timezone recalibration.
In Madrid, daylight savings came a week prior than in the states. I had three conference calls last week in which I either missed the call completely or dialed up colleagues an hour early.
Traveling in and working from Madrid, Costa Rica, Colombia, New York, Chicago and...
Facebook JSON & Date.parse()
Facebook’s Social Graph API returns dates as a string, like this “2011-11-02T22:17:10+0000”.
Safari and Internet Explorer have a tough time making Date objects with this, so it’s necessary to convert the date into a format that the Date.parse() method can handle.
Here’s a working example I put together this afternoon:
...
October 2011
7 posts
Creative data in VAST ad tags
Today I have been taking a closer look at the form of the XML for some preliminary work we’re doing with in-stream advertising and the VAST/VPAID spec.
For a few weeks, I’d been having trouble getting the run-time variables to register in the initAd() method from the VPAID interface. We want these variables because they are set dynamically within all of our ads, FlashVars if you...
El problema con el desarrollo de anuncios...
Parecía divertido escribir una entrada en español, así que aquí os va. Espero tener suerte y no tantos fallos…
Sí, los anuncios siguen desarrollados en Flash. Sí, la tecnología sigue atrás de los programadores de páginas web y aplicaciones móviles. Sí, anuncios son malos.
Todo arriba son problemas muy conocidos en el mundo de publicidad digital.
Lo que me interesa es que parece que no existe...
September 2011
3 posts
Challenges with modern digital advertising
Reading from the A Book Apart series, it’s easy to excited about the state of web design. And the future.
Modern web design and development is inching closer and closer to relevancy across the web. No longer are HTML5 and CSS3 living in a vacuum. You can see tons of sites using these full features today. It is great.
My perspective falls onto digital advertising as it’s the...
Mike, the Russian barber
Today I went to get a haircut at Tommy Gun’s Salon in the Lower East Side.
And right after making my appointment, I had to cancel when I was informed that the trim would cost me $75. I’m certain there are people who’s looks are worth that kind of cash, unfortunately I got a nice personality instead.
Kindly, the man working the counter at Tommy Gun’s — presumably...
August 2011
4 posts
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
9 posts
