This is why I love Woot and always have. Woot was acquired by Amazon today in another (think Zappos) strong acquisition of a company that just gets what online business is all about. You can never have too much customer service and creativity as part of your organization. Read the letter from the CEO to [...]
The Fail Whale is out in full force this morning as Twitter seems to have collapsed in upon itself. I am a fan of Twitter, but if they were Verizon, I would be screaming bloody murder. I don’t know how we take this to the next step if they can’t get this together. So many [...]
The Twitterverse came to a stop for a few hours today as a “bug” allowed users to be forced to follow other users without their consent. As Twitter worked to resolve the problem follower and following counts were reset to zero. The loud noise that you heard this morning was the collective scream of thousands [...]
The Facebook privacy issues continue to roll forward. I ran across a PCWorld article today with some great information. If you visit certain sites on the internet while you are still logged into Facebook, an application is added to Facebook without your knowledge. You can look at that application and see which friends have it [...]
I had an interesting experience this past weekend that had me thinking about the nuts and bolts process of email acquisition. My wife and I were in a store that specialized in home furnishings. She loves this store, and I can’t stand it. I was playing the role of good husband though, and bit the [...]
This is a story of failure. The sixtyone.com is a music site mashed up with a strong social element. This was an everyday stop for me on the ol’ information super duper highway. Every morning when I sat down to work, this was one of the first tabs I opened. The music of great artists [...]