Your customers experience it that way around
This from my friend Nick Bowmast at Flow… The British have a reputation for patience, politely queuing for hours for the latest Playstation or the Kate Moss collection at Top Shop. But this patience does not extend to online activities, according to the results of a new survey. According to results published by GBC on …
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Thanks to Leisa Reicheld for an onslaught of fascinating links this week. I was complaining recently that I couldn’t cope with the sheer quantity of conversations that the network lifestyle was expecting me to have. Seems I’m not completely alone. This posting sums up some interesting information about the “stalling” growth of the blogosphere and …
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I’ve just joined Amatomu. Their motto: “The South African blogosphere, sorted.” Look down my sidebar and you’ll see the little link. Localness is all the rage. Even though we revel in the huge, all-encompassingness of the Internet, there are still plenty of times when we want a smaller, closer space to play in. Amatomu was …
The guide I referred to in ysterday’s post is here in their archive. It’s very short, funny and easy to read. Give it two minutes. For example: 15. It might go terribly wrong, but that might actually be a good thing. So people read your blog, tried your wine and hated it. And now Google …
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I bumped into a chap called Chris Rawlinson who is one of the guys who runs runs the www.stormhoek.com site. Stormhoek is a winery down here in the Western Cape that is taking the world by storm. And all its marketing has been done by blogging. Nothing else. It’s now stocked in major UK and …
If you have children and are on facebook, you will love/be terrified by this. A brilliant piece of writing from the New York Times… “You won’t get away with this,†she typed. “everyone in the whole world thinks its super creepy when adults have facebooks.†omg my mom joined facebook!!
Says BBC News…Â Mobile phone analyst Lawrence Harris said Motorola was also handicapped by a weak range of phones.
I’ve been moving house. But who says I need to post all the time anyway? Tim Leberecht at Frog Design has some scary and interesting things to say about that. “The new read-write culture has chained me to the laptop at all times.” (Thanks for the pointer, Adam Richardson).
I’ve got 107 unread items in my RSS reader (down from 197). I’ve got my mum Skyping me, while I exchange files with a colleague via a different skype window to complete a rush job. I’ve got a cornucopia of posts to schmaak on Amatomu. 54 unread e-mails. IRC running in the (semi-transparent, always on …
Powermenu If you’re trying to have a Skype text chat why also doing some work, you need the Skype window to “stay on top.” Otherwise you keep getting distracted by the things flashing down in the taskbar. Same if you want to watch an IRC channel. A decent solution: Powermenu. It’s not new, it’s not …