The Domino’s Pizza Tracker is a marketing stunt/tool from Dominos pizza from 2008. I came across this concept when looking at a talk from Dan Norman and wanted write this down, because it’s an interesting talk.

In a nutshell the idea is that the pizza tracker tracks your pizza from “order” to “door”.

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Recently I came across an intresting webservice called IFTTT. In short: “They connect webservices like Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIN, etc”. More on how it works is on their website http://ifttt.com/wtf.

An example :: Twitter -> LinkedIN:

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I was looking up on where I could rent a small boat in Amsterdam to boat through the canals. So I ranked the company’s on price and made an overview. Of course their is a difference in type of boats (it’s based on a 6 pers. boat). You have to see for yourself on what kind of ride you want :)

• Boaty www.boaty.nl – Min. 3 hours – 25 euro per hour
• Boot-Amsterdam www.boot-amsterdam.com – 47,50 euro per hour
• SloepDelen www.sloepdelen.nl – 50 euro per hour
• CanalMotorboats www.canalmotorboats.com – First hour: 50 euro, second hour: 40 euro, etc.
• BootHurenAmsterdam www.boothurenamsterdam.com – Min. 2 hours – 50 euro per hour
• Mokumboot www.mokumbootverhuur.nl – Min. 3 hours – 56,65 euro per hour

To get the counts on the different Social Sharing functions I found the following url’s to get these:

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Edit the text on the fly
The text won’t be saved. But this is very handy if you want to test some textual changes within webdesign. Copy and Paste code below into a new bookmark or rightclick here and “add to Favorites”.

javascript:document.body.contentEditable = 'true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Highlight what Font is used
This bookmark activates a function where you can hover every text within a website and it will show you the font that is used when hovering over the text. Copy and Paste the code below into a new bookmark or rightclick here and “add to Favorites”.

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