Posted on February 26, 2009 by Iain Magee
We definitely seem to be heading back around the thin-thick cycle except this time it’s going to be on a massive scale … and includes the consumer market. The technology has evolved so much recently that we now have all the same benefits and far less of the negatives of “thin computing” from 15 years [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by Iain Magee
What do 3CX, Plus.net & Skyscanner have in common?
They (or some representative of) have all responded to my blog posts or twittering recently. I think it’s well impressive that these companies are clued up and proactive enough to be interacting in this way with the online community.
Plus.net in particular are doing great things with customer [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2008 by Iain Magee
YES! When they think that facebook should bring back the old style site! In my opinion FB have played a UI blinder and just sealed their continued success – at least for the next year – which is about as much as anyone could foresee in this industry.
In one fell swoop they have :-
Relegated [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2008 by Iain Magee
It’s not often I come across a bit of software which immediately impresses me as much as this little Outlook plugin! It has to be one of the most focused, fast & effective tools I’ve seen in a while. Xobni sits alongside the Outlook sidebar and shows information relevant to the currently selected email.
At [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by Iain Magee
Once again Facebook demonstrate their finesse by kicking off a high profile blogger. In this case I agree that it’s not the “kicking off” which is the problem – the naming of this account was quite clearly in contravention of their rules – but rather the heavy handed and abrupt method in which they pulled [...]
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Posted on January 11, 2008 by Iain Magee
Julie Zhuo from Facebook says,
As time has gone on, we’ve received increased complaints from users that friends’ profiles are getting too cluttered, and that people are having trouble finding the information they are looking for on their friends’ profiles. On the other side, users are complaining that their own profiles are cluttered, and they have [...]
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