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This is just too good to pass.

Try it at http://home.microsoft.com (It’s still there, until they fix it)

For those who haven’t seen the 2008 presidential debate between Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama.

This is one event you shouldn’t miss.

This YouTube video is so awesome! This is a classic example of viral marketing at its best. The video basically rips, shakes, and breaks YouTube’s design with cool special on-screen flash effects.

Screenshots just won’t do it. You have to see it to experience it. It’s going to be the best 45-second video today!

Click here to check it out now!

msn.com is sporting a new look to promote its “I’m not a PC” ads. Videos on the background can actually be played which is really cool and original.

How to Be Outstanding: “When you are clear about wanting something, take action towards its attainment, and persist until you reach it, the universe will conspire to make it a reality.”

I love Last.fm but Favtape is really one cool alternative. Favtape can play your “loved” songs at Last.fm in sequence! A feature that is not yet offered at Last.fm free.

So what is Favtape anyway? Favtape is a music sharing and discovery service. You can mix tapes, browse and buy music in a very simple but slick interface. If you’ve been a long time Last.fm user with lots of “loved” songs, Favtape is the best service for you.

Favtape can also search for your bookmarked songs at Pandora (US only).

Here’s my DJ Tiesto mix tape.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Jason Fried - 10 Things We’ve Learned at 37Signals

Today is “Tad’s meme” day on Friendfeed.

Tad Donaghe started a simple spark posting a photo and a simple instruction “Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair - just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture.” and guess what happened? It just spread like wildfire! Boy, it was a fun day at Friendfeed!

Here’s the photo that started it all:

And the rest followed…

(Click on the above image for the original size or you can visit the album here)

So, are you in this collage? I hope you are! Because we had a lot fun today at Friendfeed!

It was also a good day to push and leave the FriendFeed Beta!

 

UPDATE: Collage updated

Yahoo Canada (http://yahoo.ca) now sports the new (old) logo. But still no sign of the new look and feel.

PHP Developers Love PHP at ZendCon 2008

Here are some options for minor improvements for the Cleaner FriendFeed Beta stylish style.

Here they are:

Extends the left sidebar’s width to fit your rooms:

#sidebar
{
width:160px !important;
}

Make changes to the font size of your rooms, friend grouping links to your preference:

#sidebar a:link, #sidebar a:visited
{
font-size: 12px !important;
}

Highlights the likes background to light pink

.likes
{
background-color: #FFEFE8 !important;
}

A screenshot of how a post item should look like after the update:

* Highlights likes with light yellow
* Highlights friends comments with light yellow
* Highlights your comments with powder blue
* Regular font color (gray) on comments from non-friends

Those Seinfeld and Bill Gates ads are driving me nuts. I can’t bare them.

How? All the video links have changed to http://youtube.com/v/FPd4yk0x-eg.swf now for you to watch it you’ll have to copy the video code (ex “FPd4yk0x-eg”) and paste it on a URL changing it to http://youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg for it to work.

Youtube team must have forgotten this particular RSS feed when they updated something.

I also noticed a new button on the video player window. Not sure what it is though. See below. This must be the latest update that broke all things up at the RSS feed.

I will be seldomly blogging from hereon as I’ve got a new job and it requires some needed attention. Will drop some lines and images when I can.