http://blog.stevepoland.com web entrepreneur | obsessed music fan | b-lo forever! Sat, 17 May 2008 16:51:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have various projects here and there that require someone that can take the pencil drawings I create for various pages, and turn them into actual designed webpages -- just as a PSD file, I don't need cutups. I need an interface guru [for the web]. If you know someone that's ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/do-you-know-a-web-gui-designer/ I'm going to be visiting Philadelphia in the coming weeks and have no clue where to stay or what to do. I tried looking online, but can't find anything that just says "Stay in this area if you want to be walking distance to bars and restaurants". So I called ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/travel-tips-where-to-stay-in-philadelphia-bars-in-philadelphia/ If anyone has experience with the Facebook API -- I'm curious about two calls (maybe more): friends.get and photos.get [and possibly photos.getAlbums]. What I'm trying to do is have a logged-in FB user, in my FB app, be able to browse photos uploaded by friends [not necessarily with themselves in those ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/facebook-api-question-access-of-friend-photos/ If you're buying domains that are for your potential global execution of a website -- what domains are realistic to buy? Ones that come to mind are: .es, .co.uk, .de ... but what about others? .it, .in, .nl ... I feel those are realistically used in those countries, but what about ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/international-domains-which-are-actually-used/ Looking at someone's resume can help, but it doesn't really tell me how bad/good/great a programmer is with PHP 5 or MySQL, etc. ODesk has tests, but other than that -- is there any skill tests that programmers can take, which are respected in the industry, and can really tell ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/skill-tests-for-phpmysqletc/ Erick brings up the fact that there is too much noise with Twitter and FriendFeed -- that there is way too much information to possibly consume it all. That's basically what happened with news/articles on the web -- and then along came Digg. I think someone (could even be Digg) needs ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/idea-83-digg-for-twitter/ "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." Sophia LorenShareThis http://blog.stevepoland.com/inspirational-quote-for-entrepreneurs-talent-drive/ I'm looking for a script that does DNS/Domain error redirect. Thus, a toolbar is running in my browser, and when I input a URL that has a DNS problem, the toolbar throws my query to this script on a web server, and then presents me with suggestions (links, ppc ads, ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/script-sought-web-address-error-redirect-service/ Just saw this guy's lijit widget filled with a certain domain. Makes sense that this would begin happening -- basically, type your domain into any lijit widget a bunch of times, it'll become most frequently searched for item on a blogger's site, and then you'll get free enlarged visibility of ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/lijit-getting-spammed/ This is no April Fool's Day joke -- if I could bet money on this, I would. While Bush is f'ing up the country, Gore is looking like a godsend, even if it's just one of a flurry of issues: Global Warming. Gore just announced a $300mm ad blitz with ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/prediction-al-gore-to-run-for-president-again-in-2012/