things I like part 10

[buster]

1. enjoysthin.gs: It's a beautiful site, with a simple and fun focus on enjoying things.  I'm here.  It would be more fun if I had friends over there.
2. Sweet delicious black coffee.
3. Sweet delicious red wine.
4. Helping people set up blogs (not sure why I enjoy this)
5. Enjoymentland (my new barely started blog for talking about my various projects and things I'm

Comments

[kevandotorg]

Nice to have a new verb to apply to the internet, but an odd decision to slip indistinguishable-until-rolled-over "this is an ad" photos into my and everyone else's favourite pictures.

[buster]

I'm not sure what you're referring to...

[kevandotorg]

Sorry, that's Enjoysthings. One box image on every page of things turns out to say "This is an ad" when hovered over; before you do that, it looks like just another picture or site that the page's owner enjoyed.

I don't mind ad-supported sites, but making the ads identical to content that your users are genuinely enthusiastic about is an oddly misleading design choice.

[buster]

Weird, I haven't run into that at all. Maybe it's only when you're not logged in?

But yeah, I agree that generally camouflaging ads is a stupid trick.

[buster]

Yeah, it is very similar. I do like how it automatically imports favorites from Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, FriendFeed, etc though. I use Tumblr too... I use pretty much every site on the Internet a little bit. But always ready to jump to a newer better ship. Probably a bad instinct overall. :)