So @Ev pointed out that Microsoft Australia was doing a marketing campaign where the buried 10K (Aussie dollars I think, but the site doesn’t specify) somewhere and have launched a social media blitz to get people to use… wait for it… wait… Internet Explorer 8!
I have three major gripes with this campaign:
1- Burying 10K has [...]
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It would take a lot more then 10K to make me use IE8
Internet speed
1 year ago, twitter had few users.
5 years ago, barely anyone was on facebook.
10 years ago, if someone told you they didn’t have an email address, you probably didn’t give it a second thought
10 years ago, AOL, Alta Vista and Yahoo! were the internet.
I used to be thankful that I was born in this age, [...]
Why I heart twitter
1 – Stephen Fry gets a message from James Morley-Smith about his running the London Marathon for the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, Fry posts a tweet, I go I donate, so too do about 20 other good folks and James is raising his fund-raising target. Along with sending me an email about his son’s [...]
Introduce subscription at the beginning or not at all
I like using Flickr. Infact, I liked using it so much I ponied up 20 USD for a pro account and have topped it up. I also enjoy Facebook, but would I pay 20 USD a year for Facebook now, probably not.
Now if facebook had begun by only introduced a limited function for [...]
The first web powered US election
Like most of the rest of the world, I’ve been really interested in the US election this year. It’s been the most anticipated and tightly fought battles in my lifetime and I think it’s very cool to be an adult with so many American friends and family living in America at this time.
But the [...]
Adapt to openness or else
Howard Lindzon has an interesting post on the future of hedge funds, in a nutshell he’s saying that technology is shaking things up, those who adapt and are transparent will survive and their reputations and credibility will improve helping them outlast the competition.
I think he’s bang on. And not just with regards to hedge [...]
Focused communication
One of the reasons I love twitter and SMS messaging is that you have a limit to the number of characters you have to get your message across. So you’re constantly thinking about the most effective way to use the limit to get your message across.
Communication formats without limits makes it more difficult to [...]