{"id":42,"date":"2008-03-15T09:17:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-03-15T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T17:20:36","slug":"strawpoll-twitter-as-a-coral-reef-and-bruce-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/15\/strawpoll-twitter-as-a-coral-reef-and-bruce-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Strawpoll, Twitter as a Coral Reef, and Bruce Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/\">Dave Winer<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2007\/04\/28\/twitterAsCoralReef.html\">Twitter a coral reef<\/a> last April. It&#8217;s the highest compliment he said that he could pay.<\/p>\n<p>When I see something like <a href=\"http:\/\/strawpollnow.com\/\">StrawPoll<\/a>, that brings together polling and twitter, I think we have to say that Twitter is more basic than a coral reef. Twitter is like water. Without it, you can&#8217;t really use the Internet anymore. Google&#8217;s search is water, too, and it wouldn&#8217;t make sense to have the Internet without it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strawpollnow.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/strawpoll.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>StrawPoll also has a beautifully designed front page that reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/csszengarden.com\/\">CSS Zen Garden<\/a>, a great site for getting inspired about web design.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re making a web app you might want to follow the advice of this guy:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OW-cnizLDEE&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OW-cnizLDEE&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Your web app needs to be like water. Everybody needs water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer called Twitter a coral reef last April. It&#8217;s the highest compliment he said that he could pay. When I see something like StrawPoll, that brings together polling and twitter, I think we have to say that Twitter is more basic than a coral reef. Twitter is like water. Without it, you can&#8217;t really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[35,36,34,30,389],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techbiz","category-webapps","tag-bruce-lee","tag-dave-winer","tag-strawpoll","tag-twitter","tag-webapps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}