Wouldn’t it suck if your name was Barbara, you lived in San Diego, you had shorter blonde hair and blue eyes, and you posed for some photographs with a local photographer who had you sign a release that allowed him to sell them anywhere? (sure, we all read the fine print)
Then imagine you end up […]
I’ve got it, do you? As I mentioned in my previous post, Apple launched their “January Software Upgrade” for the iPod Touch on Tuesday, January 15 to a resounding thud for many folks.
I was one of the “lemmings” as one commenter noted that bought into the hype and tried to buy the software soon after […]
Found this little gem within the Publisher Agreement over at the DivX Stage 6 site:
“Please read the remaining sections carefully. It’s very important stuff, but we’ve found it impossible to re-write it in plain English. If it helps you get through it, imagine a lawyer standing next to you and reading it to […]
You know the drill…you worked hard on a fabulous design and now it’s time to unveil the project to the client. Your heart and soul is wrapped up in the presentation, but the client hits you with something like “but I’d rather have the icon in cornflower blue.”
Eric Karjaluoto’s blog ideasonideas has a great […]
The friendly folks at 37 Signals are looking for a Rails Developer. They certainly know how to ask for what they want and tell you about their corporate culture in one simple paragraph:
37signals is searching for another full-time Rails programmer to work on (mostly) existing and (occassionally) new products. You should be comfortable working […]
A very thoughtful set of gestures from a good and decent company. Read more about one woman’s receipt of extraordinary kindness from a rather special business.
“With hearts like theirs, you know they’re good to do business with.”
By the way, the good and decent company happens to be Zappos (the shoe & accessory web shop).
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How nice. SunRocket (the VoIP phone service) has ceased operations AFTER they issued me a $214.11 charge for service I had cancelled months earlier. The charge posted to my credit card on June 29, 2007. Here’s the series of email exchanges:
Them (via email after I called their support number and talked with a human):
“Response (MaryAnn […]
Today was a sad day. Recieved the final issue - EVER - of Business 2.0 Magazine.
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Apparently, food royalty doesn’t like email. I had great service at my local Burger King today and went on the corporate web site to drop them an email letting them know. Much to my surprise, I was greeting with the message “E-mail communication is not accepted“. Seriously Burger King, it’s the year 2007 and you […]
Great interview with Lego CEO, Jrgen Vig Knudstorp by Monocle Editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé. Mr. Knudstorp mentions that the iPod has changed the way children feel about how they should be interacting with companies and that Lego must become more “open source” in their approach to markets.
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FSA: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/494-sunspots-the-dna-edition
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