The Widget Economy Heats Up

It’s been a busy week in widget land with not only the news about Yahoo! Pipes but also Microsoft’s Connected Services and now the news that Netvibes is releasing a widget API.

Netvibes is also developing a Universal Widget API that will let widgets talk to one another and synchronize among themselves. It would be foolish [...]

Usability - it’s the small details

I was on Bloomingdale’s website today looking up store hours and saw something that reminded me it’s often the very small things that make a difference when it comes to usability.

Notice the store hours information… rather than giving you the standard listing of hours, they put some minimal intelligence into the design by assuming you [...]

More on the Honesty Marketing Strategy

Earlier today I commented on Rick Segal’s post about setting expectations in customer service, adding that just being honest is one very effective way to win over customers.

This afternoon I had an experience that drove home that point. I bought some new tires and wheels for my car (because I have to mod everything it [...]

Quick note on permalinks

One other tweak I made to my site this last week was to change the permalink format for posts, from http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/02/09/sample-post/ to the default Wordpress format http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=123. One side effect of doing this is that the links in my posts to other posts on my site no longer worked, and the search function (which I use [...]

GPS

This is a great idea, I would certainly pony up for a pair of these for my 3 year old. Not sure about the mass market, but for niches like adults with conditions like dementia or Alzheimer’s they would be invaluable. Children’s shoes are an obvious market but only if the price points come down [...]

Yahoo! Pipes Backs Up

I wanted to wait until having a chance to actually use Pipes before commenting on it, especially given the potential to create or confuse any competitive aspect to Teqlo. My first reaction is that it’s a great idea and validates what we are doing but like I said, I want to use it first.

On another [...]

CHP cracking down in the South Bay

This paid for itself the other day…

MercuryNews.com | 02/09/2007 | LEAD FOOTERS, BEWARE — HIGHWAY PATROL IS CRACKING DOWN ON SOUTH BAY SPEEDERS:

The California Highway Patrol is cracking down on speeders at a pace never seen before in the South Bay, issuing nearly 1,400 tickets last month. At that rate, the CHP would quadruple the [...]

Setting Expectations AND Being Honest

Rick wrote an interesting little post about a recent experience with Air Canada and appropriately titled it “setting expectations“. There is something that escapes most companies and employees acting on behalf of their companies and it’s simply being honest. How many times have you sat in the terminal waiting for a (my least favorite airline [...]

An Open Letter to Google Founders— to save Google in China and save Internet in China

This guy in China who posted an open letter to Google’s founders has a cool idea. Mao suggests Google can restore frequently talked about corporate values by putting some of their bundles of cash to developing anti-censorship tools and services for everyone in the world who suffers under government censorship.

Meta: An Open Letter to Google [...]

Back to Full Feeds

Some of you commented about my switch to partial feeds when I updated my site a few days ago. It was part oversight on my end and part curiosity to see if anyone would care. You did, so I switched back to full feeds.

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