Wow, that's a helluva roadblock by Samsung on techcrunch.com

Wow, that's a big roadblock takeover of the techcrunch.com home page by Samsung advertising the
Samsung Galaxy Tab .  You have an expandable masthead banner on the top that pretty much takes over the huge Widgetbox powered masthead ad, and then they also got the medium rectangle there on the left.  I guess if you want to get in front of TC's users, that's the way to do it.

Btw, the Tab is a pretty cool device - a first mover in the many Android tablets I have a feeling we will see in 2011.   If 2010 wasn't already, 2011 is going to be the year of the tablet app.  We're going to see some innovative stuff for this form factor like we saw with Flipboard (my favorite) on the iPad this year.

My Pummelvision - All my photos in 4 minutes

Pummelvision is an amazing service that can take all your public photos from Flickr and a few other sources and condense them into one video.  Here's mine, mostly from when I was doing International Business Development for FeedBurner:

Trying out Blogger's new insert YouTube feature...

I thought I'd try out Blogger's new insert YouTube feature announced today and at the same time show off some of the cool features of what AdMob can do on the latest Android handsets.  Enjoy.

Kudos to the Blogger team, who spent a few years creating plumbing so they can now add features very quickly.  All that under-the-covers work has really paid off for them.

It's probably one of the tougher things to pull off - transforming a product from being semi-popular to working at really large scales - because you constantly have to defer some "features" while this infrastructure work is going on.   Users don't see the benefits while you are remodeling.

The Blogger team, which includes a large set of both former and current team members, has done a great job of this.   As a user, I've totally forgotten some of the clunkiness that used to exist in this product.

People in line at the Red Carpet Club

People in line at the Red Carpet Club*

The reason they need two agents at the desk beyond the door at United Red Carpet Clubs is not to let people in, but to filter people out.

* for those from the East Coast, "in line" is what you would call "on line",  not to be confused with "online", which is what the "OL" meant in AOL meant before they became Aol.