Andrew Cafourek

Languages and Borders

By Andrew ⋅ December 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I came across this map of language prevelance across Europe over on Wikipedia. It is interesting to see how tightly most languages actually adhere to national boundaries but periodically deviate in very drastic ways. I think the most interesting occurrences here are the pockets of Uralic variations [...]

History of One New York City Block

By Andrew ⋅ November 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Zach van Schouwen has created a very cool video showing the entire history of one block in New York City. He started out researching a five-story tenement building at 218 Eldridge Street which his great-great grandfather lived. “With some help from Christopher Gray’s guide to researching New [...]

Digital Strangelove – Quite the Conversation Starter

By Andrew ⋅ October 20, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I came across this presentation put together by David, who is always a source of good ‘food for thought’ about how brand and personal communications are evolving. Sounds like the same thing everyone has been saying for a long time now (the whole mantra of “join the [...]

Incorporating an Anti-Corporate Culture

By Andrew ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This internal presentation from Netflix has been working its way around the internet for the past day or so but I just had a chance to take a look. It really is quite incredible how they view the company/employee relationship and present it in a very candid [...]

Best Facebook Connect Experience Yet

By Andrew ⋅ June 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

An upcoming game called “Prototype” recently launched their promotional site with facebook connect baked into the experience. Once you log in, it takes a few moments to log into your account but then pulls in profile data and your photos and begins to integrate them into the [...]

Hulu Continues Its Takeover Of My Life

By Andrew ⋅ May 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When Hulu was first announced, I was hugely critical of the hybrid startup/corporate mashup created by Universal and NBC but I was quickly proven wrong by its great interface and huge library of TV Shows. The site has done an amazing job of providing great, fresh content [...]

Adobe UI

By Andrew ⋅ May 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve been spending a lot of time in Photoshop lately, so this site made me chuckle: Adobe UI Gripes. And Garrett pointed out a similar site called Dear Adobe that is equally as hilarious. You kind of have to know your way around Adobe’s Creative Suite to [...]

Foursquare Evolution

By Andrew ⋅ May 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I love Foursquare, an online game that allows you to ‘check in’ to venues from your phone, earning you points for a variety of achievements at each check in. Its a great iPhone app for seeing what your friends are up to and casual competition against friends [...]

Coming Up For Air…

By Andrew ⋅ April 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve come to realize that my blog has gone through spurts of seemingly insightful posts followed by long absences that see only a few low-impact posts like we have seen for the last few months. So, I’ll likely be shifting to more periodic updates and attempt to [...]

Function.php Code for Vintage Theme

By Andrew ⋅ April 7, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Regular readers, please disregard this post… I need a place to publicly post some php code for a few people… <?php if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ) register_sidebar(array( ‘before_widget’ => ‘<ul class=”category-bg widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</ul>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’, )); ?>

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