So, a brand-new Iowa-based web startup has launched today called “Townpoints” (@townpoints). The concept behind the new startup appears similar to popular daily deal sites like LivingSocial and Groupon. Basically, the site promotes a local merchant with some great deals. There are, however, a few basic differences behind Townpoint’s effort that are worth pointing out. […]
Web development as a creative art
So, creative projects, MIRITE?! Still going strong, despite the fact that I still have to finish that week 3 poem, and I’m still missing a couple from February when I was on a business trip to Brazil, but for the most part, I’m still there, still creating things on a weekly basis. But lately, these […]
One last TrustyPig post
Last one, I PROMISE! I just realized that in my last post, I was far too kind to TrustyPig. I gave the TrustyPig admin too much credit, thinking that he was simply the victim of some freelance web developer from China that stole the site design from SmartyPig. Why did I allow myself to swallow […]
More on TrustyPig
I know, I know – I’m already sick of talking about TrustyPig myself. But today, we received word that the TrustyPig admin (“Costy”?) has responded to our claims that the SmartyPig website design was stolen. Rather than post the response on their own blog (which any transparent company would do), TrustyPig opts instead to work […]
TrustyPig changed their site (but I still don’t trust them)
You would have thought that after yesterday’s efforts by the Des Moines online community to destroy TrustyPig’s reputation that something would have changed by now. And will you look at that. Someone has a new site design today! Beautiful. A search on Google for trustypig reveals why that site design has been posted so quickly. […]
TrustyPig steals SmartyPig website
We don’t have many web 2.0 products coming out of Des Moines these days (you can read my commentary about that here). So when something hideous and wrong happens to one of our few entrepreneurial successes, we take notice, and we do something about it. Des Moines-based SmartyPig is a site where you can start […]
IowaFlood and Nerdflood: two great floods that flood great together
Apparently there’s some confusion on the internets* about this new website that’s popped up called IowaFlood, and its purported relation to Nerdflood. So, time to clear the air. Here is a detailed side by side comparison of the two sites to give everyone a very clear understanding of what each site provides you, the valued […]
What the hell is Toluu? And does it require a prescription?
After generally ignoring my blog for several days (as I am wont to do every now and again, especially when Twittering so much), I checked back in today only to find that I was receiving an unexpected influx of traffic from a site called Toluu. Curious, I jumped down the rabbit hole and followed the […]
The more things change…
I’ve finally altered the wave portion of the Nerdflood banner that I’ve used since the beginning of time. Or at least, since the beginning of this blog. It was done on my wife’s suggestion. She found the old one to be to rounded and messy — she considered it more of a ‘splat’ than a […]
The Weekly Release
Nick Puleo of Evil Avatar (a site I can no longer visit at work thanks to our new network web content filter) has set up another cool website called The Weekly Release. You may recall Puleo as the person that allowed me to desecrate his Gamers’ Gallery site with my hideous graphics. Over on EvAv […]