February 2012
11 posts
1 tag
Why Netflix Is Smart
I wasn’t surprised to read that Netflix claims 50 to 60 percent of their traffic is from users streaming TV shows as opposed to movies (or 80% depending who you ask). The reality is that Netflix has always had a horrible online streaming catalog. Most of the time when I login to watch a movie I can never find it and I usually end up renting it from iTunes. However, they have an amazing...
3 tags
The 40 yard dashes at the NFL Combine of Robert Griffin III (4.41), Cam Newton (4.59) and Andrew Luck (4.67) combined into one .gif so that you can see how they measure up against each other.
Luck is an awful lot faster than I thought
3 tags
2 tags
“The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the...”
– Not bad for some graffiti huh?
1 tag
Boarding Pass Usability
This recent blog post from Delta shows off their new boarding pass design. It’s nice to see an airline paying attention to the usability of the boarding pass. Those things are a mess. This design is very clean and easy to read. The gate, time, and seat immediately jump out at me.
Apparently the white space will facilitate the consolidation of up to four flights on a single boarding pass...
2 tags
“Facebook has become the largest platform for display advertising on the Web in...”
– Wow, that’s insane. This is according to comScore so I’m not sure how accurate that number is.