Author: Ryan Neudorf

  • User Feedback & Twitter

    When we launched the new HipHopDX.com at the beginning of the month, I was quite surprised at the inital feedback I was seeing on twitter versus the email I was receiving from the contact form.  Twitter was generating 90-95% positive feedback, whereas emails were 100% negative! The few negative tweets were all fairly constructive and…


  • Google Streetview Rolls Out in Canada

    Google has started to roll out it’s streetview across Canada. As of right now, cities include: Ottawa Montreal Toronto (and GTA) Calgary Hwy 1 to Banff for some reason Vancouver Hopefully more cities will be added soon.


  • People Suck At Email, Part IV: Threads

    If the email thread is already 29 messages long, do not reply-all with “Thanks.”


  • “Ohmygosh…I lead an overview of some of my favorite windows 7 features! It was totally informal.”

    Yesterday I watched a 10 minute video of an HD camera tethered to a weather balloon as it climbed to 100,000ft then plummeted back to Earth. The video was a lot of spinning and whooshing. I got through all 10 minutes of that video. I could not even get through the first minute of this…


  • CNN.com: Sept 11, 2001

    Among other things, it’s interesting to see how much the web has changed in the last 8 years. If I’m not mistaken, cnn actually dropped to a “low bandwidth,” less cluttered version to handle all the traffic during the crisis. Archive.org records before 9/11 show a slightly heavier site. More CNN on Archive.org.