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Author Archives: matt
WTF? - Are they talking about me?
December 7, 2007 – 1:12 am
Upon googling myself I’ve stumbled upon my name on some site called fogless. If you can translate this please do and let me know what you find. I understand that there’s more than one matt monahan, but let’s just be sure they’re not talking about yours truly.
On being unproductive…
December 6, 2007 – 4:23 pm
I just got a second monitor for my computer at work yesterday and I couldn’t be happier! However, a few minutes ago I stumbled upon this valleywag post about how adding a second monitor actually decreases productivity because the extra space is used for distractions.
They couldn’t be more right. You may find it incredibly ironic [...]
Your privacy is up for grabs
November 7, 2007 – 2:09 am
This just in:
With Beacon, Facebook will install cookies onto users’ computers to track their activities when they visit partner websites such as eBay, Travelocity, and Fandango. When these users bid on an item, book a trip or buy a movie ticket, Facebook will let the user’s friends know in their Facebook news feeds, the stream [...]
Blockquotes: setting an endquote image that displays dynamically
September 22, 2007 – 1:03 pm
A lot of blogs out there use an image of beginning quotes to spice up their blockquotes. If you don’t know what I mean, here’s an example:
Now, you’ll notice that there is a background image on the blockquote tag that specifies the beginning quote image, but there is no endquote image. This is [...]
Startup Weekend NYC
September 19, 2007 – 2:48 pm
This weekend is Startup Weekend NYC! It’s being held at the PolyTechnic University in Brooklyn. I’m pretty psyched. My take 24:7 buddy Vlad will be joining me. Despite my enthusiasm, I’m kind of dissapointed by the ideas being tossed around in the forum. Most of them are for facebook applications [...]
VoSnap Launches…Finally
August 29, 2007 – 2:03 pm
After the end of startup weekend in Boulder, Colorado, last July the voting site deemed VoSnap was yet to be unveiled. Well, over a month later it’s finally open to the public. VoSnap.com is a web app that lets a user ask a simple question, present a series of answers to choose from, [...]
One week in January
August 22, 2007 – 2:52 pm
Take247 co-founder Dan Clifton has recently written an article detailing the shoot of In Mid-Air in January of 2007. It walks you through the tremendous amount of work that went into the production, along with some Armageddon and Harrison Ford jokes sprinkled in.
You can read it here.
