Entries Tagged as 'rant'
Apple, why do you do it?
It doesn’t matter how you decorate a piece of crap and talk about how good it smells and how delightful it is to the touch. It still is a piece of crap. Gizmodo is reporting that rather than an SDK coming down the pipe we’re getting Google Gears, more or less, for Safari. A mechanism [...]
When will they let Ballmer go?
I mean, really. Like Colligan is for Palm, Ballmer is a boat anchor tieing Microsoft down. What Microsoft needs is a change of culture - they need a better vision for their direction and to be able to move more nimbly. They’ve proven they can do it with XBox, but so far it’s an isolated [...]
Woz is… annoying?
I don’t know if I’ve been reading to much Fake Steve Jobs, but I’m finding the Woz to be a bit annoying. Take this here interview with him that I just read. Ignore his ESL speaking skills and let’s see what he says.
I have the iPhone. I stayed up all night long to get it. [...]
Dogs and Cats sleeping together…
Mass hysteria! (wait for it, 2:06) Ok, maybe not mass hysteria, but David Winer and Nicholas Carr - both very smart people, yet people who I find myself constantly annoyed with despite their obvious intelligence have written something that I could not agree more with!
I stumbled across Carr’s blog post talking about how dumb the [...]
Categories: rant · social networks · web2.0
Even more on why I think time spent on site is kind of a dumb metric
I don’t mean to harp, but “Average Time on Site” is a silly metric to use. Not in theory, sure if you could actually calculate it and know the length of time people had your site open and were reading it, it’d be the best metric ever. Unfortunately, you can’t.
So that the number is [...]
Just like Colligan cancelled the Foleo, Palm should fire Colligan
You know as much as I wasn’t expecting it (because I never really thought about it) in retrospect the only surprising thing about Colligan cancelling the Foleo is how not shocking it is. It explains the lack of even one marketing dollar spent on this “new, revolutionary” device. It’s sort of exactly like what happens [...]
Predictions of Microsoft’s Doom
Every few months for the past few years someone decides to post their reasons why Microsoft is doomed. I’m not sure if they genuinely believe this or if it’s all just link-bait blogging. The latest is this list of 7 Reasons Why Microsoft is DOOMED! I’m going to go with linkbait given that the capitalization [...]
Microsoft. Oh, Microsoft…
I couldn’t help this one. Fake Steve pointed out this CNET piece with Microsoft talking about the first service pack for Vista. So I’m reading it and whatever, it’s kind of a basic piece, talking about SP1, Vista’s disappointing uptake so far, maybe SP1 will drive some corporate adoption - pretty much a boilerplate piece.
Then [...]
My beef with Apple keyboards
There’s a lot of talk about the new apple keyboards, are they good, do they suck, etc… well this post isn’t about them. I’ve gone through a lot of keyboards in my time, good, bad, clicky, quiet, whatever. I know my preferences, but really, as long as I can type on it ok, in general [...]
Time Warner customer service is really the worst
So, if you’ll remember, just before I left my cable went out and my calls to Time Warner’s RoadRunner customer service was the most unbelievably horrible service calls I’ve ever had. To sum up, it ended upbeat with the cs rep hanging up on me, believe me that was a high note from the rest [...]
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