Archive for April, 2008

Email Is Not Communication

April 29, 2008

I was once fired via email.
On my first day of college after transferring to Pacific University here in Oregon, I decided I needed a new computer. So I went down to the campus store and found a woman struggling mightily with managing the store. She was all alone and the orders were just pouring in. [...]

Summing Up Economic Woe

April 21, 2008

I was going to write today about the mortgage mess, the credit crunch, various government rebates and hand-outs, but decided that this sign summed things up for me better (found here, here and here):

Maybe we actually get what we deserve. After all, if some of us are too dumb to do a Google or Wikipedia [...]

Tech Support: Key Indicator of Company Success

April 14, 2008

I hate lousy tech support. At Infinity Softworks, we work really hard to provide fast, prompt responses that solve the customer’s problem. So when I experience bad tech support somewhere else, it is really glaring.
I have been using Yahoo! Mail for years for my personal email. Lately, a bunch of my regular emails have been [...]

Beating A Dead Horse: Mobile Web, Mobile Web, Mobile Web

April 11, 2008

I am starting to see this message everywhere: mobile web development is the future. This time it is market analysis firm ABI Research:
“Ultimately, the long-term trend away from native applications to web-based applications means browser and web services engines will be increasingly important components in the mobile environment.”
Michael Mace has talked about it at length, [...]

Constant Connectivity Just Around The Bend

April 7, 2008

Over the weekend, Fred Wilson wrote on his blog about the music industry and the future of streaming music. An important quote:
Over the next five years, the number of places and devices where you can’t get a speedy wireless connection is going to dwindle to maybe the car.
Ah, to dream! For 10 years we have [...]