You may remember Google Reader as the anomalous Google web application that nobody liked.
Apparently, this did not escape Google’s attention, and it has been redesigned: behold, the new Google Reader.
Continue reading ‘The Renovated Google Reader’
Monthly Archive for September, 2006
Okay, yes, this is silly. But it’s Friday.
Just to follow up (since I did complain about it) — Blizzard replied to my query. For one reason or another, they believe my account was compromised. I will be able to reactivate it, if I choose.
So, decent customer service, after all — it’s a shame the initial notice wasn’t a little clearer.
I get between 20 and 40 emails per day at work — none of them are spam. Chances are, you’re in a similar situation — depending on your role, you may receive even more email than this.
This means unless we’re very diligent, the inbox can be stuffed with over a hundred emails in a matter of days.
I don’t know about you, but an inbox that is that full stymies me. I hate it. I hate to look at it. At best, it’s frustrating and just feels messy — at worst (for example, if I already have several projects pulling at me) I can get the “deer-in-headlights” feeling just looking at the inbox.
Continue reading ‘Email Inbox management: The Offline Inbox’
There are a lot of fairly murky, less mainstream parts of the internet. Usenet groups continue to be one, as does IRC, although neither of these are particularly “secret” — they’re just not really popular in the same way that, say, MySpace is popular.
Then again there are some stranger things, right here on the web. Hoodwink.d is one of them.
Hoodwink’d seems to work by using host headers to allow you to visit certain non-standard domains; once there, you can install a greasemonkey script that makes the whole thing work. Obviously, this is incredibly geeky, and the intructions are more or less designed so that a non-techie-geek would be basically unable to join.
Thanks to my pal Manny for sending me this link; you have to love “Weird” Al. Well, I guess you don’t have to, but I think it’s hard not to.
Fortune has this article about the chaotic management style at Google.
Interesting if for no other reason than to see how a company which is explicitly trying to be different is (or isn’t) really different.
So, this was in my inbox this morning:
***Notice of Account Closure***
Greetings,
Account Name: PCRISSMAN
This is a notification regarding your World of Warcraft account. Access to this account has been permanently disabled for exploitation of the World of Warcraft economy or for being associated to accounts which have been closed for intended exploitation. While we try to be as lenient as possible in our assessments of the results of exploitation investigations, reoccurring trends in exploitative endeavors on your account have ultimately resulted in account closure.
Continue reading ‘Blizzard closes my unused World of Warcraft account for being “exploitative”’
Alexa Street looks like a broader, more accessible take on the idea behind blogshares.
Neat.
