Rants Posts

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 […]

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Web 2.0 Sucks

Yes I said it.
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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 […]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Did Google Change the Google Analytics Homepage?

I look at this page some 5 times a day - have I just been missing it at the top of the page?  It appears that Google has added a search box to the top of the page.

So has anyone else seen this or am I indeed going crazy i.e. just havent been paying attention […]

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

You want subscribers? I got subscribers.

You constantly hear about how many “subscribers” X company has compared to X company. These numbers usually are comparing their leading 200 million to some 50 million. Perhaps its Comcast and AT&T slugging it out over who has more users.
Then you look globally and suddenly feel small.   There are many global companies that have larger […]

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Why Vendors Annoy Me

Over the past few years I have averaged 3 to 6 conferences a year such as Pubcon, SES, and SMX. Chicago is also home to an SES, Ad-tech, Etail, and other smaller conferences and makes afternoon trips to see friends and check out vendors a snap.
All of these conferences have one thing in common:exhibit halls […]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008