Pitch-perfect.
Society Archives
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The best part about this exchange is I’m honestly not 100% sure which of Dave’s tweets John is replying to (with the Zima response).
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A year ago the Clients from Hell website was all the rage with folks in the client services business. I enjoyed reading it. It was cathartic to see other people struggling with their clients as well, and many of them in much more absurd circumstances than the majority of us ever experience. I subscribed to…
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I don’t get this commercial. Regardless of service quality/speed/etc., the way it’s presented doesn’t make sense. Wouldn’t it be more effective if the rest of the group (all using AT&T) got the email quickly, then one remaining person got the email later? Isn’t the incentive to avoid being left out? Getting the email first and…
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In the email ad I received from Eddie Bauer for their Memorial Day sale this weekend: Print this email or show on your mobile device upon checkout. Emphasis mine. I think this is pretty darn cool.
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There are few things that annoy me as much as the following scenario: Someone sends a message to me via a feedback form. I compose and send a reply. My message (the reply) bounces back because they mis-typed their email address. Sometimes I can look at the address and figure out what the issue was…
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This surprised me. Of course, by the time I checked the link GitHub had already removed the account.
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I’m not a big user of location-based social networks, but I’ve used Brightkite a bit in the past and I used both Gowalla and Foursquare a bit at SxSWi this past year. I’m now dormant on all of these, but I get daily friend requests on them from people I don’t know. I believe this…
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I received this email last week (posted with permission): Hey Alex! I am writing from MyLikes, an ex-Google social media/twitter advertising company that connects influencers on the web to advertisers. I wanted to send you an invite to be a premium influencer on MyLikes! Power twitter users such as yourself, can make money on Twitter…
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One of my favorite SxSWi events so far was the Ze Frank’s conversation. As alluded to on Twitter, I’m a Ze Frank fanboy, having 2-3 minutes of my life enhanced every day by The Show as it happened back in 2006-2007. The conversation was a somewhat surreal experience. A room chock full of people that…
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Social networking at conferences is very different than normal social networking. It simultaneously drives non-conference attendees nuts, while is an essential part of the experience for the conference attendees. I know both sides firsthand. I was ready to unfollow half of my Twitter stream during SxSW a couple years ago, and saw the benefits of…
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This is really frustrating… Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules. The new regulations do not require online retailers to…
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I’m a bit baffled by all of the late night TV shuffling, arguing, debating, etc. Are there still people that watch TV (besides sporting events) at their broadcast time? I’ve had a DVR since 2002 – I can hardly fathom watching TV another way.
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Yesterday I got a $10 charge from PayPal when someone who had donated $1 to me ($.67 after PayPal fees) disputed the payment. Besides being obviously frustrating, this is also quite interesting. The e-mail I received from PayPal stated: After careful consideration of the evidence provided by you and the buyer in the case referenced…
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Twitter-SPAM is on the rise, and I include RTs (re-tweets) in the SPAM bucket. I made a snarky remark about this a couple days back – and sure enough, it got re-tweeted. To mix my metaphors, RTs increase the noise part of the signal to noise ratio in what can already be a rather noisy…