Something went wrong with my machine at home. A popup started saying things like, “Your license is about to expire, backup your stuff because this machine is about to become a paper-weight.” I was really annoyed. I purchased Vista for a reason. So I wouldn’t have to deal with that crap. Microsoft tech support was…
I was working on a friend’s wedding site using WordPress as the base. He is a graphic designer and has excellent taste for these things. At first, I started with a theme that was close and tried to modify it. This is what I did on my own site. However, I realized pretty quickly that…
Google Maps and street view is getting scary. For a while, Microsoft’s Maps, was the closest look at my house. But the Street View for Google is just crazy. It’s a digital photo from the street of every house in my neighboorhood. Interestingly, I can’t make out any of the license plates on the cars. …
WordPress 2.6 is getting ready to go into beta. I’ve said this beofre, but WordPress to me is just a fantastic program. The design of the UX including the UI, IA, upgrade process, plugin process, html editing, is just world class. I am continually inspired by how a program can work in such a smooth…
This might sound stupid, but I was struggling to find out what font Microsoft used in their menus in Office 2007. I thought it was Calibri, but that was incorrect. It turns out to be Segoe UI. Google sort of let me down there. I googled and googled and couldn’t find a post with the…
John McCain has proposed a 300 million dollar prize for a better battery. Although I certainly am in favor of a significant increase in funding for batteries, I don’t understand why this is a prize. Why not just invest 300 million in R&D grants for better batteries? Is it really a “prize”? So one company…
I recently upgraded my DirecTV so that I get HD and DVR in one box. It took a week to get it actually working. Some technical problem, lets skip that. The device has an ethernet port so I bought a special ethernet to wifi connection. It took a little while, but I finally got it…
I don’t have a Blackberry. I appreciate it’s UX very much for the primary user. It’s downright addicting. However, the UX of the person WATCHING the person using the Blackberry isn’t nearly as good. Hold on a sec. Click. Spin ball. Type. Wait. Wait. Ok, I’m back. How lame is that? Every person with a…
I just noticed something this morning. I always knew the arrow was sort of a smile. The M and the A were the eyes and the arrow was the smile. However, I didn’t notice that the arrow goes from A to Z until today. From A to Z. They don’t just sell books. Get it?…
Check out the chart showing history of online advertising spend. It’s fascinating. This is why Yahoo still exists, even though they are getting clobbered by Google.
Business Model #1: Enterprise This is when your product costs over 100k. Maybe even in the millions. The sales cycle is pretty long. It requires lots of documents to make the sale and build the product. RFI, RFP, MRD, PRD, Roadmap, the list goes on and on. This is a tough business to be in. …
This is EXACTLY how Katie and Matthew interact. Except replace Lois with Katie.
This is an update to my post previously about income in the United States. Based on 111,617,402 households in the US as of 2006. Household Income, 2006 Total People Percent Less than $49,999 57,218,480 51% $50,000 to $74,999 21,221,889 19% $75,000 to $99,999 13,214,551 12% $100,000 to $199,999 16,145,482 14% $200,000 or more 3,817,000 3%…
A nice review of Marketo. I really feel like Marketo is starting to gain momentum in a serious way. Articles like this make me feel all warm inside that I was able to have a positive impact on a company and on the people who use the product. This raises an important thought for me. …