Dwight Schrute on Google Friend Connect

Friday, May 16th, 2008

When I first read about Google Friend Connect, an upcoming service that will allow website owners to easily add social network functionality to their own websites, I immediately thought of these lines from NBC’s “The Office”:
Dwight: Why am I being forced to come in tomorrow and pretend that a website made sales that I made?
Ryan: [...]

Geni Is Sweet Viral Marketing

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Today’s my little brother Aaron’s birthday, a point that had eluded me until Geni notified me via email:
Dear Jordan Gunderson,
Aaron Gunderson, your brother, has a birthday today.
Click the link below to enter a birthday greeting for Aaron and we’ll deliver it today.
- The Geni Team
Short, simple, useful, and driven by info that I didn’t enter [...]

Spread Firefox Plugin for WordPress

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Those of you who are visiting my site in IE will notice my new alert, generated by the Spread Firefox Plugin for WordPress. Quoth the alert: “Internet Explorer sucks. Jordy recommends Firefox (a free open-source alternative) so your browsing will suck no more forever. Click here to learn more or download.”
It’s a little spammy but [...]

SSS PageRank

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

The PageRank for Software for Starving Students (via Google’s toolbar) went clear from 0 to 5 with the latest data update. That’s pretty indicative of the almost immediate success the project has enjoyed. The site has only been up since the very end of December but has had some really incredible growth. Just check out [...]