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TOS: Terms of Service or Turmoil Over Semantics?

February 18th, 2009  |  by mykl  |  published in observed, social web

If you were online over the past few days, you probably heard about Facebook’s attempt to change it’s terms of service and the ensuing uproar this caused. They have since rescinded the changes pending further review. The sticking point seemed to be a combination of who “owns” the things users put on Facebook  and what [...]

Twitter background love

February 7th, 2009  |  by mykl  |  published in design, observed, social web, web marketing

I was really pleased to see my Twitter background featured on Twitter Backgrounds Gallery this week. Thanks for the votes and comments. I’m excited that more sites like this are popping up. Anything to help inspire folks to make their backgrounds more unique is definitely a good thing.

Election Day-inspired logos

November 11th, 2008  |  by mykl  |  published in observed, web design

Inspired by Mashable’s round-up of Halloween-flavored logos, I’ve collected some interesting examples of website logos inspired by the US election last week. Here are some of my favorites: Yahoo – Added a vote button and turned theirs into a poll. Cafemom – had a nice button standing in for their O. Boston.com – also choose [...]

Historic Homepages

November 6th, 2008  |  by mykl  |  published in events, observed, web design

When I saw this tweet last night, after chuckling at the HTML joke, I started thinking about all the folks who’d be stocking up on paper copies of newspapers today. That lead to some surfing of major news sites and, ultimately, to the collection below of post-election screenshots from around the web. Thanks to Kristofer [...]

I told you I was working on a solution to the economic crisis

October 6th, 2008  |  by mykl  |  published in observed

Recently, I suspended my blog to tackle the economic crisis. Apparently I’m making progress. To distract from the dearth of depressing financial news today, The Consumerist kindly suggested readers cheer up by checking out my 2007 State Fair set on Flickr. Check out this placement!

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