Hey, FEEDBLITZ ate my content. (sounds like the dog ate my homework!)
I actually sent in a report to them like the good internet user I am.
(If they GIVE it to me free, then there’s a moral obligation to PAY BACK by letting them know that they have a problem.)
Within an hour, they sent me an email that acknowledge the problem was on their end and that they were fixing it.
NEAT!
Usually you get silence, or worse, where they want you to do lots of WORK!
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For example, I went to my Job Seeker’s PIM and said hmmm, let me plug in my favorite recruiters.
So I took my list of 2006 “award winning” hunters.
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/GOLD_hunters_for_2005.htm
and plugged them into the recruiter relationships.
It appears that it took it. What it did with it I have no idea? It doesn’t even tell me that I plugged in their email. It should at least echo it back to me that x@y.z was submitted, ending, rejected, or bounced.
It would be nice to see, and modify, the text of the email.
Maybe they are being send and invite and an invoice? I wouldn’t know.
I don’t understand why they are not just like a contact.
A lot of room for improvement here.
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I didn’t do anything but use the various stuff.
And, what makes them think that I’m gonna spend time working on THEIR problem. I just move along to stuff that WORKS. I thought I was being nice just telling them.
Sigh!
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I needed a place to quickly stuffing a 2 meg mp3 file for a friend to listen too.
Normally I’d have emailed it, but yuck! It would have been left spinning several places for eons.
From his POV, both worked perfectly and flawlessly.
From my POV, mediafire was faster and worked on the first try; the other was slower and two two tries.
Isn’t the net amazing?
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ONE: Sitting looking at the network contact screen, it is not dead drop obvious who among my contacts are on JibberJobber and who are not. I know I have one because I signed up a Zombie and cross linked them. So that contact should be differentiated from the rest.
TWO: Looking at my contact list, I’d like to recommend this site to them, but it’s not apparent how to do that, and it is not brain dead easy to do. Like check contacts and hit a button somewhere.
THREE: After I do figure out how to recommend, those contacts should have a differentiator.
PS: Did I mention that the screen doesn’t fit. Too much info so one has to right an left screen.
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I’m Stumbler #1863639
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2006/10/
cox_clobbers_co.html
October 31, 2006
Cox Clobbers Competitor’s Customers
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Any company that will only give customers 30-days notice that long-time e-mail addresses are being eliminated sure seems like one that thinks it can do whatever it wants. “From here it looks like a pure convenience and/or profit motive for Cox, and the customer can just live with it,” the reader concluded. “Where else do we have to go?”
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One doesn’t have to be held hostage to the whims of the ISP.
My current favorite WSP (Web Site Provider) “1and1” offers. A “beginner” package with a domain name; 5 GB web space; 500 e-mail accounts; and 250 GB traffic for 3$/month.
{{Use my referral code and they even give me a kickback! http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 out your 3 bucks. Wonder how much it is? Three cents?}}
That beginner package is better than what most ISPs give you for “free”. It’s certainly better than what I used when I first got started.
I tell jobseekers (aka baby turkeys) that they never want to have their “stuff” held hostage to:
If you “own” your domain name, like I do, “reinke.cc”, (who really cares what country it nominally belongs to), then you are ALWAYS in control.
SO, in the case of the poor fellow ranting to Ed Foster about “losing his email address”, it would have been trivial to say go into 1and1 and re-aim your email from, in his case, from CableAmerica to Cox.
AND, that assumes you’d want to use their lousy email anyway. Most WSPs offer better.
If he followed the advice and bought say “poorfellow.za”, then he could have used a personally branded email address like poor.fellow@poorfellow.za. All the people, who had his personally branded branded email address (i.e., poor.fellow@poorfellow.za) would still have it, And never had to know about the underlying change from poor.fellow@CABLEAMERICA.com to poor.fellow@COX.com! Nothing would be necessary.
I used to mess around with redirectors like bigfoot and others until I just but the bullet and went “bigtime”. I think I paid 25$ for a three year take on the reinke.cc domain and 10$ for 1and1 to aim it where I want it to go. Now, it’s even cheaper and I see a rush to the bottom of the price curve between GoDaddy, Yahoo, and other WSPs.
I feel comfortable with 1AND1 because they are deadly cheap, they advertise in Network World and industry trade rag, and they’ve done well for my consolidation project. (I moved seven websites with various WSPs, each placed with the “best” at the time, to them and saved some pocket change. And, my sanity. No more remembering which WSP had “creative driving techniques” web site. That was a joke!)
I have put commercial enterprises on their facilities back when I was consulting and have never heard a gripe.
In summary, I don’t have sympathy for this fellow, (well I do; maybe he did realize it.), but it COULD happen to you. Do something NOW to avoid it.
Besides having your own domain is snazzy kool!
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JotSpot is now part of Google
We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users. More importantly, we want to reassure you that you’ll continue to have uninterrupted access to your account. Both Google and JotSpot are committed to supporting our customers, and we understand that users have invested a lot in our products. In the near-term, we’re focused on migrating JotSpot to Google’s systems and datacenters. We’ll work hard to make that move as seamless as possible so that customers won’t be inconvenienced.
Why is Google acquiring JotSpot?
Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online. JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Google Groups.
What does this mean for JotSpot customers?
We believe that joining Google will accelerate our team’s vision of offering users the best collaboration platform on the web. Google shares that vision and presents us with the world’s best environment for delivering on it. We’ll be taking advantage of Google’s world-class systems infrastructure and operations expertise to ensure that access to your JotSpot is fast and reliable. We can’t share any of our plans publicly just yet, but we can tell you that we’re incredibly excited about the possibilities. We can’t think of a better company to have been acquired by.
Will paying customers still be charged?
We will no longer be billing customers for the use of the service. Although you will still have use of the product at your current pricing plan, we won’t charge you anymore when your current billing cycle expires.
What about security and privacy?
Your data is yours — that doesn’t change at Google. We will continue to work to ensure the privacy and security of your data. Furthermore, Google is as committed to privacy and security as we are. Since the user information you provided to JotSpot will soon be transferred to Google as part of their acquisition of JotSpot, we want to provide you with the opportunity to retrieve your user information and cease usage of the JotSpot service before the transition. If you do not wish to continue using JotSpot, send an email to privacy@jot.com in the next sixty days and we will reply with instructions for retrieving your user information.
Answers to more frequently asked questions are available at http://www.jot.com/. If you have any other questions, please email support@jot.com.
In closing, we wanted to offer our sincere gratitude to you — our customers — for believing in us and helping us achieve success. We look forward to continuing that relationship at Google.
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http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/2006
/10/best_of_the_bes.html?
October 26, 2006
Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites
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Web 2.0 sites are cropping up all over the place! From Social Bookmarking Sites, to Real Estate sites, this list has only the best Web 2.0 Sites available today! What makes a site a Web 2.0 Site? Web 2.0 is the second coming of World Wide Web. New and improved sites that make the web their platform, provide users a way of interacting with each other, and organize and categorize their content are perfect examples of Web 2.0. Below is a list of web sites that are the best of the best!
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There’s an exhaustive list of “stuff” to be looked at. It’s too much. The whole application space is truly out of control.
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http://www.weboffice.com/EN/Services/
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WebOffice brings together powerful, professional web-based business applications specifically designed to make collaboration easy and cost-effective. Everything you need to manage your business on the web is together in an integrated, centralized place.
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Sounds like about 80$/month for a fully integrated web offering.
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