Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• September 7th, 2007

  Netscape.com rebranding

  Tom announced last night the rebranding of Netscape (the social news site) on the Netscape blog, and of course, Valleywag TechCrunch got it all wrong (and even stopped by to gloat). I’m telling you, if TechCrunch was an entertainment blog, they would have reported Prince’s name change as a murder.

• June 26th, 2007

  AOL News and Netscape.com

  AOL News has undergone a redesign to be more “bloggy” (according to Reuters). Part of this update is that now they’re featuring the top stories at Netscape.com under the “User Submitted News” in the left-hand sidebar. I wouldn’t mind that section being a little higher up on the page though, maybe replacing any of the [...]

• May 19th, 2007

  One more day in paradise

  So tomorrow is my last day in Orlando. I don’t know if it was something I ate (Cheeburger Cheeburger, I’m looking at you) or just the stress of traveling, but I’ve felt sick to my stomach since yesterday afternoon, which is terrible timing. If I was going to get sick during this trip, I would [...]

• April 27th, 2007

  Let’s see if this works…

  Love him or hate him, controversial blog-boss Jason Calacanis knows his linkbait. Brooklyn-born Calacanis, formerly the editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, made a “how-to linkbait me” post on his popular blog, which he writes with his trusty bulldog Toro by his side. (Jason is more recently known for being the impetus behind the relaunch [...]

• April 21st, 2007

  A day in the life of a Digger

  The whole thing is pretty funny, but I laughed out loud at around 18 seconds left:

• March 30th, 2007

  Meet your newest Digg friend

  It’s me! Well, at least if you’re signed into Digg, it is. As reported at TheGoogleCache, all you have to do to be added as someone’s friend on Digg is to get them to visit http://digg.com/invitefrom/yourname while they are logged into Digg. Visiting this URL adds you as their friend without requiring any confirmation, and [...]

• March 26th, 2007

  Netscape now an OpenID consumer

  Netscape’s OpenID support is live. This release also greatly simplifies the signup process by removing the captcha and the request for other information that was previously required for registration.

• March 23rd, 2007

  Netscape to support OpenID later this year month

  The announcement just went public that, starting on Monday, Netscape.com and My.Netscape will support signup/signin via OpenID, and consequently, AOL screennames (AOL hosts an OpenID for each registered screenname). I’ve used the OpenID registration/signin process in our QA environment, and it is slick. Kudos to Blaine and Trey on this awesome new feature. P.S. I [...]