Join Foursquare, You Won’t Look Back
July 29th, 2010Facebook tells the world who you are. Twitter broadcasts to the world what you are doing. Foursquare, the location-based social networking service, allows users to let friends and family know just where they are, with special benefits included. Foursquare is, at its core, a game. Users check-in at locations where they are, shout a few [...]
Awkward Facebook Recommendations
July 13th, 2010Recently, while taking important time out of my day to check up on Facebook, I have found some awkward recommendations appear on the right hand side of my news feed. As part of the Recommended Pages section, the Facebook team has devised an ingenious method of linking Pages that you have previously liked to other [...]
Graphic Design Internship Opportunities in Toronto
June 16th, 2010We’ve recently opened up some internship opportunities for anyone interested in gaining work experience in graphic design. If you have a kick ass portfolio (or just a really good one), have an eye for type and a clean aesthetic, we want to hear from you. Please send samples of your work to toronto@thinkbasis.com. Applicants will [...]
Create a Slideshow, Not Frustration
March 23rd, 2010When putting together a piece of linkbait or viral content, a lot of websites tend to think the more pages, the better. The same goes for slideshows – these freaking things seem to be popping up left and right, most likely by sites whose revenue model is driven by ad impressions. To these guys, the [...]
What I Hate About Media Temple
March 5th, 2010Being a “web guy” means that hosting is kind of a huge part of what keeps everything going from day to day. In the past we kept and managed our own servers at The Planet. It was largely good, though not perfect. But, after 4 years of self management we decided to go less stressful [...]
Domino’s Twitter Feed Falls Flat
December 30th, 2009In a case of asking a question they weren’t quite ready to have answered, Domino’s Pizza’s new site Pizza Turnaround (which promotes the chain’s new recipe) is getting the wrong type of buzz. After soliciting user feedback and including a stream of tweets under the hashtag #newpizza on their new recipe’s site, Domino’s seemed a [...]
5 Ways Google Product Search Could Be Less Evil
November 27th, 2009By now everyone in the search community is familiar with Google’s motto of doing no evil. But without getting into a huge debate about the merits of capitalism and the economy, I think it could be argued that their product search, as it stands, might be venturing into evil territory. At the moment, the core [...]
Are Phone Books Totally Useless, or Just Mostly Useless?
September 15th, 2009Since I pride myself on not holding back my opinion, no matter how controversial, I’m just going to come out and say it: the phone book may have outlasted its usefulness. I know, I know, but before you get all huffy about how much you love selecting a business based on arbitrarily choosing a company [...]
