TechCrunch has lobbed another grenade of incomprehension toward the unsuspecting blogosphere. I get pissed off about it on our company blog, Concrete The Studio . Read more below.

The Business of Bullshit

Ok, not exactly the first one, but I hope it’s at least one of the most comprehensive and among the easiest to read. It’s posted at ConcreteCMS.com, the website for the company where I work as director of technology. Get the full story over there:

A First Look at OpenSocial
Answering Questions About Google’s Effort at Standardizing Social Network Widgets, and the Creation of Your First OpenSocial Widget

Who should read it? Any web developer who has any questions about OpenSocial; anyone curious about what OpenSocial brings to the table; and anyone who thinks its a death knell to Facebook applications. By the end of it you’ll know all about OpenSocial, and you’ll even know how to write a social widget.

Oh, and please, give me feedback.

Just in time for the primaries, here’s something I cooked up to waste time and facilitate arguments:

PoliticalBubbles.com

It’s fairly self-explanatory: choose a candidate, give’em a quote, and paste your code on your various websites/social profiles. It’s harmless fun. But don’t take my word for it; what do you think, Fred Thompson?!

. . THOMPSON LIKE!@#! Steal This Bubble! Get more Political Bubbles!

Please, feel free to post bugs or suggestions to this entry. (I’ve got a few things in the hopper, but would love to hear from others.)

My firm, Concrete Websites, officially launched the website for Lemonade.com, a startup with whom we’ve been working for months. I say “officially” launched because, while the site was actually like most of last week, an article about the site appeared in the New York Times today. Ooh…pressure!

What’s lemonade.com? Lemonade let’s you “add your favorite stuff to a Lemonade stand and put it on your personal profile, website, blog, wherever” (from the site.)

You can learn more here. And in the spirit of Web 2.0ishness, I present to you my first non-testing Lemonade Stand:

Yes, there are kinks to work out, and more retailers to get on bored (I really wanted to include the MOTU 8pre in the stand above, but it was nowhere to be found) but for now I’ll just settle for catching my breath…

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The entire Mac web is awash with news, reviews and general statements about Coda, Panic’s web workflow tool. It’s a good tool, with plenty of things going for it (and some rough spots), and since it’s aimed squarely at me, I was looking forward to digging into it, and writing a long, in-depth review not unlike this one .

Coda, apparently, had other plans. Witness the screen with which I am greeted upon starting the application.

Perhaps there are some naughty entropic bits loose in my MacBook Pro, or perhaps TextWrangler is fighting to keep me as a user. Or maybe its something else. Who knows. I only downloaded it yesterday, Panic! I promise!