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Today I jumped on pricegrabber.com to update some alerts I had set and noticed the new design, layout and community they just rolled live.  Not too bad at all.

There are definitely a few bugs they seem to be working out, however overall I’m really impressed.  They use the glossy & trendy new-web look with the large search box and very fast search suggestions.  The whole feel of the site is very cohesive and the community/user profile areas are put together quite nice.

One silent-yet-deadly feature that they pulled off really well is the smart tabbed-navigation for the categories/sections.  You’ll notice that they appear & re-appear as your browser width changes yet the all-important “Election ‘08″ stays put.  Gotta’ love those paid sponsorships.

These are my favorite kind of re-launches.  Where bugs are still apparent but you know they put a lot of work into the base of it.  I like knowing that bigger companies can make large scale changes like this along-side the smaller and show they’re human all the same.  Nice work guys.

 

Sandeep man, this is all for you brotha. ratemyturban.com

Was meaning to post this a few ago, but man, I’m still royally ticked off that I didn’t think of this first. The goal of The Big Word Project is to Redefine Words.

For each word, there is a link. You get the idea.

I bought: define, for, each, scotch, whisky, jimmy, & carter.. naturally.

Also some really awesome work over at make

I’m about half way done with a fresh redesign here, I’ve been lagging like no other and that changes today. I’ve had a few weeks where things just got way too busy, but hangin’ tough. Here’s me playing catch-up for the past few weeks of things I’ve been meaning to post:

• The Facebook Economy a great breakdown
• Allofmp3 won and is on it’s way back - Alltunes still works
• Heima Trailer watch this, now
• Live Validation, Say Hello
• MorphThing works a little too well.
• Eudora is being reborn to the open source world, talk about memories!
• iPhone Stand from a business card. via Lifehacker
• Myspace Fashion - and they still can’t redesign the damn main site. Seriously, what is tom’s problem
• The Duchebag wordpress plugin - fortunately for me I like (most) everyone that stops by my site. haha

More to come later today, and hopefully a design I like soon.

Shared Server Hosting space. $14.95 a month
4 months of Lynda.com web training $100
Working all year to launch Moustachemay.com, Priceless.

Trying to get caught up with a lot today, here’s some goodies to check out on your coffee break.

• This to That - aka, what can glue to what else
• No One Belongs Here More Than You - Brilliant Idea for the book
• We Made This Blog
• More amazing finds at Hot Chicks with Douchebags
• The art of can - nice site too