How can a multibillion dollar company be so far gone when it comes to understanding how people interact with websites?
What am I talking about?
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Forbes seems to have discovered the very cutting edge of web unusability. Check out the following page:
In Pictures: Google + Apple = ?
I saw this in my Gmail (as a web clip) and clicked through to find the most ridiculous concept in web browsing: an auto-refreshing slideshow that consists of entire-page reloads every 15 seconds with no user input.
Early last week my girlfriend’s laptop was stolen from her car right in front of my house. (Friendly reminder: always lock everything, never leave stuff in plain sight, and always password protect EVERYTHING).
A Mac was not an option - those laptops are expensive! For all the hype they get, they’re a tough pill to swallow at such a premium (compared to a Windows box) and not all of us have the bankroll to swing $600 differences. So last Friday she bought a new HP laptop with Vista preinstalled, which led to my first real experience with this little beast called Windows Vista.
» Continue reading “Why I Will NOT be Upgrading to Microsoft Vista”
Do yourself a favor. Make this the last post you read today. I came to a very important realization recently that I’d like to share; maybe it will hit close to home.
How much time do you spend reading blogs? Of that time, how much is spent learning truly useful or actionable information? Furthermore, how much time do you spend APPLYING what you’ve read? All the intentions in the world won’t matter as much as one tangible action.
» Continue reading “Stop Reading Garbage and Wasting Your Time”
Yesterday I lost a domain name auction at SnapNames (I refuse to link to them).
For those who don’t know, Snap Names is the exclusive domain name expiration dropper for Network Solutions. If you’re monitoring a domain name that’s due to expire and see that it was registered at Network Solutions, you have to use Snap to try to acquire it.
» Continue reading “How to Lose a Snap Names Domain Auction”
