Category: observations


Inspiring quotes about recent trends

From Chris Shipley:
“The Web 2.0 Cycle Has Come to a Close. For much of the last three years, technology industry pundits have hyped Web 2.0 as the Big Thing that fundamentally changes the business of the Web. We think it’s pretty clear now that Web 2.0 has been more of a hype cycle than a […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Thursday, July 17th, 2008

In on the joke

Weezer has a new video, which features a bunch of references to famous Youtube videos (Chocolate Rain, Mentos & Diet Coke, etc). It has over 5 million hits and 34,000 (!) comments. So what? Show it to your boss at work and see if he or she ‘gets’ it. It’s a quick way to […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Your error message sucks!

We’ve all been on a website and had something go wrong, only to be presented with an error message clearly written by an engineer. The dreaded “404 Page not found” is the most common and it means absolutely nothing to a consumer. The trend over the past few years has been to write friendlier error […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Sunday, May 25th, 2008

WOM ≠ yet another media silo to fill

Hear hear. “True WOM is not a media buy. Talking about buying people is offensive. You can’t buy a recommendation — you earn it.”

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Posted by Chris on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Today’s example of maddeningly vague language

If you’re like me and find the New York Times News Quiz application on Facebook to be a great way to confirm your elitism and general hoity-toity-ness, you probably saw the third question in today’s quiz:
Question 3 of 5: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won a strong victory over Senator Barack Obama in Tuesday’s primary in […]

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Posted by Chris on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008