IT Milk: archive

For an e-commerce store I’m building with Satchmo, I need to add dynamic boxes–editable through the admin interface–on the front page of the site. For instance, I want the client to be able to edit not just the featured items on the front page, but also other smaller elements on that page like the welcome [...]

I primarily use Gmail for all my email needs now, but there are two features I miss from my old AOL Mail interface, which I haven’t used since 2001. I wish I could unsend an email and also check if an email has been opened by the recipient. The latter feature could be on the [...]

Yesterday, I drove out to New York City from Penn State to do a favor for a family member. I thought of a new business idea during the 4-hour drive. Letting the mind freely roam such a this makes the time and gas money well worth it.

As part of my undergraduate research, I’ve been trying to extract information from the AOL search log released in 2006. I’ve had some laughs from several bizarre queries, but I just discovered this old blog post from Something Awful that compiled many of the interesting search queries coming out of the AOL search log. Here’s [...]

Back in high school when I really wanted to be Asian, I used to be a frequent visitor of YellowWorld, a popular portal and forum for Asian Americans. I still stop by every once in a while, but the front page of YellowWorld.org has not been updated since 2006. The forums still seem to be [...]

I thought it was a joke when Twitter notified me that StateCollegePD was following me. But this article in today’s Collegian proves that it is true.
I am skeptical about the State College PD using Twitter to reach out to the community because, as the article mentions, “It will appeal certainly more toward students and [...]

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I’m curious how the global winners of the Google Online Marketing Challenge completed a successful Adwords campaign with a framed website. Check out their client business’ website at The Hangout.
The use of frames means that the only landing page they would have been able to use was http://www.thehangout.com.au/base_set.html, which could not possibly have a [...]

After the results from the Google Online Marketing Challenge were announced this morning, I noticed some annoyance among spectators that the Challenge is a black box.
The admin at Nimble Books complains that objective data is not available on the winning campaigns:
Unfortunately, when you surf through to the information about the challenge, there is absolutely [...]

The results are officially announced today on the official Google Online Marketing Challenge website. Our team took first place in the Americas region. Our members included Caroline Furey, Joe Lewis, Matt Maisel and me.

(Left to right) Joe Lewis, Matt Maisel, Caroline Furey, Daehee Park

As a result, we will get a trip to the Google headquarters [...]