Posted in Advertising, Business, PR on Aug 28th, 2008
UPDATE: Wow! Look at their GetSatisfaction page.
If you like customer service horror stories, then you’ll love this one.
The Story
In February of this year, our heroine, yours truly, called CapitalOne to pay off one of her 3 credit cards with this company and to change her address and phone as she had [...]
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Yan was nice enough to let me play around with Buxr a week or so ago and while I’ve only skimmed the surface, it warrants your attention. I’m not supposed to leak screen shots or anything, but if you do a little research you can see that some people have been a little more [...]
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Update: Contest is open to all. This contest is not US only. Yay!
A few months ago I decided that I wanted to do something special this Christmas for my readers and for some kids. While I’ve still been pondering what to do, I got a cool email from a friend over at [...]
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OK, first thoughts on Kindle.
1. How long before this gets ‘upgraded’ and you piss off the early adopters? (a little Zune frustration is coming out here)
2. $400 is high. How come this doesn’t come with a few public domain books on there for fun?
3. Battery life looks awesome, as [...]
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Posted in Business, Geek, web 2.0, yahoo! on Oct 26th, 2007
I’ve taken some time over the last few weeks to pay attention to different Yahoo! services. In addition to being an employee I’m a huge Y! service lover, from Upcoming to Del.icio.us, from Music to Widgets, they’ve really built/bought some great products.
I thought it would be fun to walk through a few of their products [...]
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While doing my morning reading, I devoured a list from Guy’s blog that led me to this neat seo trick.
Search Engine Optimization Analysis Tool: Use the SEO Analysis tool to see how a search engine spider sees any website. This is a great way to discover your competitor’s SEO weaknesses and consider how you can [...]
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I’m preparing now for an upcoming presentation at Webcom-Montreal (note: site in French) mid-November. While I have my outline done, I am looking for a few great examples of community. I’d love to hear what you think about this.
Who is doing community right? Who sucks at community?
Social Bookmarking
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It never ceases to amaze me how important metrics are to a company. Is Facebook important because people are on it, or more likely, because of the wealth of data that Facebook has collected about each and every user and because of the super-easy way you can target ads directly to that user, theoretically? [...]
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Posted in Business, Geek on Aug 2nd, 2007
I finally took Vista off of my laptop last week. While my main computer is a Mac, I’d been attempting to use Vista since February on my secondary laptop to no avail. After several months of heartache, I still had no sound. And, I know I’m not the only one as my [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Business, web 2.0 on Jul 12th, 2007
A video that was produced internally to motivate employees has become so popular that it was released for the rest of us.
Social Bookmarking
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