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Vongo Says I Have An OS Failure

I was watching TV tonight and kept seeing funny ads for a service called Vongo. The ads were pretty nebulous, so after the movie I tried visiting their website:

Not a browser failure, but an OS FAILURE! Kinda odd too, considering they stuck “Mac OS X” in the right hand “Minimum System Requirements” column. There’s a little red circle next to Mac OS X though, but still, the name of the column shouldn’t be contradictory to what their error message is saying. I’m guessing that Vongo uses ActiveX…. any Windows Vongo users out there know what’s up?

I guess building to flip isn’t always a bad thing

“Building to flip” is a term that means that you’d build a company, product, or service specifically with the intent to sell it. This strategy is not often the best strategy, since you remove customer from the equation and simply try to make the service attractive to prospective buyers. Good for you, bad for all of us. But is this always the case?

The Misuse of Buzzwords

Speaking from experience, using buzz words can actually do you more harm than good, especially when you have no idea what you’re talking about.

The Use And Misuse of RSS

It seems that my entry on Top Ten Sources sparked some nice debate around the blogosphere. Everyone from Susan Mernit to Dave Winer has been brought into the shuffle. I discussed Top Ten Sources with John Palfrey via email, and he let me know that the company is alerting writers of the impending aggregation, however Kevin and Michael commented on my entry saying they received no such notification.

I’ve left comments at other blogs defending my position against people who see nothing wrong with republishing RSS content sans-permission, and I thought it time to write my viewpoint out as a full entry.

Either Support Safari, Or Lose Customers

I’m completely sick of “web 2.0” applications/companies/websites not working in Safari. I’m even *more* sick of people who say that users critiquing a web application’s inability to work in Safari are lame or don’t know what they’re talking about. This rant was brought on by comments on TechCrunch about the new version of Writely tools. I left a comment that basically said, “it’s lame that Writely is introducing new features when the basics of their application still don’t work on Safari” and then I got flamed.

Put The Pajamas Back On, Your Birthday Suit Is Showing

Roger Simon, in his excruciatingly finite wisdom, decides to change Open Source Media back to Pajamas Media due to the fact he and his entire company committed faux pas after faux pas after they launched. Good thing they paid a pretty penny for the three-character domain name and branding which is now all out the window and dead on the sidewalk.

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