Foursquare Fail Page
Latest in my series of website fail pages is Foursquare, who, late on a Sunday evening of all times, served me up this:
Products
Unlimited Gmail aliases
A helpful tip from Google, if you didn’t know about this already: Gmail doesn’t offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com. For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com. You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox, [...]
Classic Commercial: Star Trek & MCI
The funniest thing about this commercial is how much these people loathe each other in real life. Time may never heal all wounds, but as you can see here, screen time and a paycheck can at least restore the illusion of healthy functioning.
Hootsuite Fail Page
Hootsuite’s always been very reliable for me. Here’s proof it can fail with the same grace and good humour as Twitter.
Product #WIN: Kudos to Sandisk; respect for the Sansa Fuze
A lot of people write reviews for products they’ve used for a week. It seems to me that there’s limited value in that: kinda like the automobile manufacturers that struggle to get the J. D. Power & Associates Award for Initial Quality. That doesn’t impress me. How does the quality of the product and support [...]
Product #FAIL: Koodo Phone Case
Here’s a few questions it might be useful to ask before designing a mobile phone case, or alternately, before buying a warehouse full of some other manufacturer’s mobile phone cases: (1.) Should we use rivets to attach the belt clip to the main body of the case? (2.) How many should we use? (3.) How large [...]
Product #FAIL: Crest for Kids
Can you see anything wrong with this product? Perhaps. But how about from inside a sealed box? No, and as luck would have it, that’s how these kid-friendly tubes happen to be sold. Having had some time to field test it (something I’m guessing Crest didn’t do), I can see at least two fun-enhancing benefits [...]
Company Relationship Management (cRM) using Social Media
Customer relationship management (CRM) is strategy whereby companies use technology “…to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales related activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new customers, nurture and retain those the company already has, entice former customers back into the [...]
Adventures with Koodo Mobile
I haven’t had a wireless phone for 9 years — not since my last contract expired. I could expound on that statement, but why? The fact that I’ve avoided any attachment to the industry for as long as I have probably summarizes my experience better than any words I could write. In the years since, [...]
The Myth of Microsoft Benevolence
Microsoft’s recent announcement that they will be releasing a 3-dollar Windows software suite might sound like a charitable gesture, if it weren’t so wrapped in context: In addition to any outstanding antitrust suits, Microsoft has now embarked on new lawsuit frontiers for its marketing of Vista. The 3-dollar version of Windows in question is severely [...]
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