By Joe on October 9, 2008
Several folks who have the opportunity to work with me, know that I advocate for the end-user in nearly everything. One topic I tend to drive hard into is accessibility of useful features within products and services. That is, the struggle between Web properties which are “too busy” or “too light” for uninitiated users. In [...]
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By Joe on October 8, 2008
Probably the best news yet for AOL Journals users — you can now migrate your AOL Journal to Google’s Blogger easily. AOL did make good on their promise to provide an easy way for users to export their blog contents to a third-party.
Posted in Blogging, Geeky, Tips | Tagged aol, bloggers, Blogging, Google, internet
By Joe on September 23, 2008
The wireless industry has two major news for consumers. For one, the iPhone has some healthy competition from Google’s Android phone which T-Mobile will be the carrier and will be released today. Second, Verizon released a press release stating they are no longer requiring contracts and will stop charging ETFs.
Posted in Blogging, Geeky, Tech News | Tagged cell phones, consumer advocacy, customer service, Google, iphone, News, sprint, verizon, wireless
By Joe on September 10, 2008
Believe it or not, AOL updated their homepage to allow third-party authentication into their e-mail competitors. I chalk this up to a last-ditch attempt to appeal to their users so they don’t change their homepage away from AOL. However, despite this, most of the features in this change go well above and beyond the technical [...]
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