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Google Hands Of Its First 1337 Cash Prize For A Chrome Bug

Back in January, Google announced that it would follow Mozilla’s lead and start offering cash bounties for bugs found in the code of Chromium (the open-source browser behind Chrome), or Chrome by the community. Google both matches Mozilla’s $500 and ups the bounty all the way up to $1,337 (yes, 1337) for “particularly severe or [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Mad Lib Competition: The Results Are In…

This time last week, prompted by Luke Wroblewski’s research, I asked you to suggest Mad Lib style sign-up text for your favourite websites. By way of encouragement, I promised to dig around my hotel room and find some kind of prizes; a signed copy of my eBay-auction-winning book, a TechCrunch tshirt, a little bottle of [...]

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Fri, March 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Competition! Mad Lib your favourite site’s sign up page for fame, shampoo and other prizes

Yesterday, Luke Wroblewski – Chief design architect at Yahoo! – wrote a blog post singing the praises of audiosharing site Huffduffer. But it wasn’t Huffduffer’s service that got Luke W animated, so much as their sign-up page.
While most sites use a standard form with text-boxes and radio buttons for new sign-ups, Huffduffer presents its questions [...]

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Sat, February 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments