Some thoughts here and there.
Okay, real talk, blogging often is hard shit. We care so much about you and your time. We don’t write posts for the sake of writing posts. If we have a passionate topic, you’ll see it here. Otherwise trust we are probably just busy making something great for the citizens of the interwebs.
I have been thinking about the value of high milage cars. And something I find funny, is sometimes the balance between usability and actual MPG is so vast, that I fail to see the point, yet many consumers are hooked by the car companies that have created hype and value. 3 cars for comparison The…
So in the past year, a lot has happened in music. Radiohead, Coldplay, and recently announced Metallica have been selling their albums via digital download, and you name your price. Radiohead had over 1 million downloads, and averaged $8 a user. Thats amazing. Now, Nine Inch Nails is taking it a step further. Free. You…
So I get a lot of spam. I mean a lot. Probably 300 – 500 a day. I assume its because I am awesome, but its really because my email is listed as the registered owner and tech contact on about 25 domains. While Apple mail rocks, it still has to sort the spam to…
My Friend Seth (he may not know we are friends yet) posted a great thought on the ratio of Signal to noise. This really rings true being a web designer. We are often asked about creating secondary, and tertiary (and beyond) websites, just to link back to the main site. People tend to believe that…
So US airways decided this month to charge more for window and aisle seats, and leave the less than desirable middle seats at the current rates. What I see they are doing here, is US air carriers continuing to drive a wedge between the consumer and the airline. Flying used to be fun. 10 years…
ATA / Aloha Airlines has stopped all flights to and from Hawaii on Thursday. Here is my dilemma. There are ATA passengers stuck on the island with a round trip ATA ticket. The remaining airlines that service Hawaii, have decided to take advantage of the situation, and raise their prices. What!?!!! In a world where…
Ohh Yeah. Quickbooks now offers website design. I also hear rumor that you can buy SEO services at costco. Wow. What’s next? Oil Changes at McDonalds? Web designers also doing home repairs?
Rumor has it that microsoft confirmed that the vista replacement, “Windows 7”, should be ready in 2010. They began work in January 2007, when vista officially flopped. Are you kidding me? Why does it take 4 years to work on yet another release? I understand new features take time. This may be the apple fan…
In my daily conversations with client, potential clients and other designers, I am often presented with questions on how to make things stand out on the home page. Questions like “I want to add a new service, how do I make it important” or “we have a 65% bounce rate on the home page, how…
My Friend Adam posted about a recent experience with apple customer service. Adam ordered a new keyboard and mouse for his apple laptop from the apple store online. Yet he was shipped 2 mice, no keyboard. Here is his conversation with apple: