I run User Experience at Zivity. Lately people seem to like talking about us.

We made the front-page of TechCrunch:
“Zivity: Silicon Valley Elite Dabble in Adult Content”

We’re on Digg’s homepage:

737 Diggs — “Finally - First Silicon Valley Funded Porn Site”.
63 comments; let the hating begin! :-)

and now we’re on ValleyWag, the valley gossip rag:

If you’ve been […]

Someone asked why Chris posts screenshots. While his thoughtful explanation makes sense, it can be stated simpler: Skitch & MySkitch.com are the Speed Graphic & AP Newsire of the software revolution. By bringing instant PROOF to user experience through shareable screenshots, Skitch accelerates design, development, and debugging by letting anyone “see what I see”. It’s […]

A quick Greasemonkey hack that hides the status messages in Campfire chats. No more “Ricky has joined”…”Ricky has left”… etc.
View Screenshot:

Download the Script: jm3-hushed-campfire.user.js
Enjoy, share, etc.
Requires

Waiters on Wheels provides online ordering for restaurants without the time to make create their own websites. Last night at SuperHappyDevHouse, in between flapping my gums and eating too many nachos, I finished version 2 of my Yelp on Wheels! mashup. Installing this will add Yelp’s community “star” ratings to the Waiters on Wheels listings […]

SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) purport to make sites search-engine-friendly so spiders can index your pages and find your content — fine. But often what masquerades as SEO/SEM is nothing more than unscrupulous hosers filling legitmate sites with spammy links (splinks) to fake, ad-filled websites they’ve created to harvest click-advertisement money. […]

So you want to install Trac, the rad Wiki / Ticket system / Subversion front-end / Juicer, but server administration crap really isn’t your thing? Daunted by the disgustingly long list of instructions sprayed across 20 different websites? Never fear, I’ll hold your hand. This will only hurt a little…

download SWIG (simplified wrapper and interface […]

first, install rael’s entries_index plugin.
then, install the codeswami patch: /downloads/codeswami-blosxom-date-patch.diff
(view a Pastie of the patch : http://pastie.caboo.se/10772
if you’re not familiar with unix patch files, you can apply this one with patch -p1 codeswami-blosxom-date-patch.diff
voila! now, the dates in your URLs don’t jump around when you go back to fix a typo in an old post.
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so far, i’ve modded Instiki to have new stylesheets for a cleaner look, and a set of blackberry and mobile device optimizations, including:

adding javascript show/hide for the wiki editing help and hiding it by default
shortening the help text and moving it below the page body when editing so you don’t have to scroll past it
reducing […]

Before i knew about things like attention streams and Trac, there was CIA.
CIA is a great concept that happened almost before its time — a website for developers to stream status information into from their open source projects. CIA was like the giant train station schedule sign clicking away as a million trains, or coders, […]

I’m having trouble with a GMail reverse-engineering problem and I thought I’d post it here in case anyone had some ideas for breaking through my little impasse. Here’s the problem: I’m adding (decorating, in GoF-speak) an event handler to a GMail control — specifically, the Send button. My objective is for the existing Send button, […]