Tag Archives: Twitter

Old People, Lifecasting, and the Future of The Internet

By Clay Parker Jones | March 5, 2010

Writing a review of Zazie’s breakfast. 4 stars!
Imagine a system that immediately captures every bit of information about a trip, and stores it permanently in an accessible, portable format—and on top of that, has been designed to fit your routine, not the other way around.
My parents created that system in the early ’80s, and they did it […]

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6.5 Earthquake – Northern California

By Clay Parker Jones | January 9, 2010

Whoa. Big earthquake near my parents’ house. They live right above the bay, north of Eureka, where you see all those little maroon fault lines running parallel to each other.
When I was a little kid, I went through an earthquake the exact same size—6.5—and despite the fact that I was in the hunting/fishing aisle of the […]

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Nike Most Valuable Puppets Santa/Reindeer Ads

By Clay Parker Jones | December 26, 2009

This aired yesterday during (and before) the big Lakers-Cavs Kobe-LeBrawn showdown.
It was preceded by this: Episode 4 in the Most Valuable Puppets (MVPs) series for this season.

So much right about these.
The puppets, which proved to be popular, if ill-fated during last year’s NBA Playoffs—LeBron didn’t make it to the Finals—the lyrics, the length, the cultural references that help […]

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Wordpress P2: Twitter, Better

By Clay Parker Jones | June 1, 2009

Wordpress recently launched a new front-end theme called P2, which affords a standard WP setup Tumblr and Twitter-like capabilities, with all the privacy nuances that you would expect: you can specify posts get shown to certain sets of users, show some things to everyone, and allow anyone to participate in conversations asynchronously.
The short-lived but annoying explosion […]

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Ask Focus on Energy

By Clay Parker Jones | May 26, 2009

I wanted to take a moment this morning to go back through the last project I worked on at my last place, which happened to go live on my last day in Chicago. Not only did it go up on time (Jim Vogel is the world’s best project guy), but it’s probably the piece of […]

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Half Acre Beer Suprise. #goodbeer. Also, UXUP.

By Clay Parker Jones | March 16, 2009

If you’ve been following the UXUP thing, I’ve been talking about a beer-related surprise.
Here’s the idea:

Problem: Existing tools to find recommendations on beers are kinda lame. You might like Beer Advocate’s rating tool, and you might find what you need on RateBeer, but they’re not exactly shining star examples of interactivity.
Solution: Consolidated Twitter beer reviews. Let’s talk about […]

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Site Preview: Riding Resource

By Clay Parker Jones | November 25, 2008

A while back, a couple of friends in Atlanta called to ask if my buddies and I could help them with a site they were launching called Riding Resource. Word has it, it’s hard as hell to find a quality place to ride horses today despite the omnipotence of Google. After a load of hard […]

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Vimeo Plus

By Clay Parker Jones | October 17, 2008

Introducing Vimeo Plus! from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo.
I post a lot of videos on this blog, and when I do, I prefer to use Vimeo. It’s fast, it has a community that is usually pretty supportive (unlike YouTube, which we all know gets pretty vicious), and it does HD. On top of that, the player is […]

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Obama Baton: Pass It On.

By Clay Parker Jones | October 6, 2008

Ahh, so the Obama Baton. As you might know, we went from a 160-line chat to a wireframe, to a live site in under 10 days. I won’t get into the how, but instead into the why.
Seth reached out to me about two weeks ago with an idea: running the NYC marathon with a blue baton […]

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Living Your Life Online

By Clay Parker Jones | April 18, 2008

About a week ago, I sent a coworker a link to a photo on my Flickr account. Yesterday she reported back that she’d looked through all 2,228 photos that I’ve put online.
She asked if I was weirded out.
I said, “Of course not. I put that stuff up there for people to see.”
It’s been about two years since I’ve […]

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