Archive for: November, 2006

Delivering on Support Promises

November 27th, 2006

Back in the states, email based customer support has become the standard. Often times there is no phone support option. It’s pretty good too. It’s safe to assume you’ll get a reply within 24 hours or so.

Here in New Zealand, the option for email support is almost as common. And there’s always a phone option.

Even [...]

More Twitter Ramblings

November 26th, 2006

Whenever I spend some time thinking about why I don’t like something, I inevitably stumble upon some way it can work for me.

After my last post regarding Twitter, it occurred to me that I could enter the update feeds of friends into Gmail’s Web Clip bar.

This eliminates the interruptions that occur when the updates come [...]

Rambling about Twitter

November 23rd, 2006

It feels like Twitter is really starting to make some headway. Which is awesome. It’s great to see a new twist (rather than simply new features) on the underlying concept of Blogging. I’m completely fascinated by it. And yet I don’t use it.

This can be attributed to a couple of reasons:

I’m not a phone person. [...]

A good time to hold’em

November 17th, 2006

Ev’s “knowing when to hold’em” post has some great observations about the pluses and minuses of selling your small company to a larger one.

A couple posts later he talks about smaller purchased companies forming a separate identity inside a larger company.

I like that people say they work “at Flickr,” rather than at Yahoo!, their actual [...]

On Circuits and Design

November 5th, 2006

Marshall McLuhan – Nov. 20th, 1964 – Symposium on Cybernetics and Society

“In moving from the neolithic age to the electronic age, we move from the mode of the wheel to the mode of the circuit, from the lineal single-plane organization of experience to the pattern of feedback and circuitry and involvement.
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In the age of circuitry, [...]