Rants Articles

Watch Super Bowl Live Online

So NBC has the big game this year and similar to what they do with their Sunday Night Football games they will be streaming the Super Bowl live. Other than ESPN I cant honestly say I know of any other network doing live sports events online. And since my initial review of Sunday Night Football being streamed live on NBC they have continued to improve the UI (even if just…

What is Customer Service?

Note: This draft, well now post is a year (and change) old and after a few edits I am finally posting it! Since it is still relevant so heck why not post it?! Now the other 10+ drafts that I just deleted… well they will never see the light of day. I went into my frequent lunchtime location: Chipotle. Now if you want fast good food this is the place…

10 Unusual Uses for Twitter

So I have given in and am writing a post that has a number and some list in it – forgive me this one time. This post is in thanks to @aplusk and others that constantly ask questions on Twitter. You can use Twitter for any number of things but I thought I would just highlight a few of them. So with out further delay, here are some different ways…

StumbleUpon & Its Friend Features

Recently I have become for a better word – addicted to StumbleUpon. I cant count the number of laughs and really informative sites about Web Analytics, CSS, and so on that I have found since I started using it more often. One problem I have come across while using it more was a lack of diversity in the people I followed and was friends with – I keep seeing the…

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

I have said that I wont do a “Best of 2008″ type post and I stand by that. I know 10′s of 100′s or 100′s will but not me. I will say a few words … well maybe a bit more than a few but I swear … not many. 2008 has been big, fun and great but I’m hoping 2009 to be bigger, funner, and damn fine. That was…

Jaiku Gets an Upgrade, Somewhat

Not that I follow anyone actively or use my account much but it is somewhat interesting to see Google actually do something with one of its purchases. Like many of the small companies they buy, very little seems to come of the great promise. Do you recall Dodgeball? GrandCentral? Postini? The list goes on and on and only a few have gone on to be integrated or enhanced. I understand…

Comcastic or Confusing?

That is what I am asking as I sit and read about Comcast capping bandwidth to 250GB starting October 1st here, here, and here. I personally cant think of a time I have ever used close to that amount, but I am sure that there are those that do. The thing that confuses me is an announcement that Comcast just made a few months ago about some super fast bandwidth….

Today is a good day (for non-iphone owners)

Today I am very glad that I am not such a Fan boy of Apple. On Twitter all I have heard about are the following: ibrick “Checked 2 AT&T stores… lines were about 50 deep at both. Not bad, but I’m not gonna go outta my way.” via @kiddisco “Quick, someone make an iPhone fail whale!” via @steverubel Apple’s iPhone 2.0 update is failing (Matt Asay/The Open Road) http://tinyurl.com/5mjjhw via@Techmeme…

Web 2.0 Sucks

Yes I said it. – start rant – Why you ask? If a site requires a user to visit it…. and you cant. It sucks. If a website screws up your order what do you do? You shop somewhere else. If you click to read a review and you get an error what do you do? You hit the back button. So why do we put up with it? Perhaps…