Category: General
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Twitter Love
While I still don’t really “get” Twitter, I did have a neat customer service experience via Twitter the other day. JetBlue replaced their reservation system over the weekend and TripIt wasn’t able to property parse the new reservation e-mails. I tweeted about it: Looks like TripIt doesn’t like the new JetBlue reservation system’s e-mails:( Hopefully…
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Selling Through Context
Here is a great idea on how to market to me: Sell me an image or a story, and then sell me a series of products. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] I don’t mean sell me…
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Focused and Unfocused Shopping
I buy many things online. More and more people are doing the same. E-Commerce is usually one of the lowest cost and highest growth channels for a retailer. There are many advantages to the consumer: Shopping online can give you access to a wider array of products, at cheaper prices, and with more convenience than…
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Google Speed!
Google has a nice collection of tutorials, tech talks, etc… related to making websites run faster. You can find it here: Let’s make the web faster. This is no longer available. Check out a 3rd party guide here: PageSpeed Guide and higher level Google Site here: PageSpeed Insights Rules I strongly disagree with the first…
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JavaScript Speeds
The JavaScript engines of popular web browsers vary greatly in performance. The variance in performance is surprising. Running this test: http://celtickane.com/labs/web-browser-javascript-benchmark/ On my laptop, here are my results (lower is better, your results my vary): Safari 4: 128 Firefox 3.5: 233 Camino: 615 IE 7: 1181 IE 7 is almost 10 X slower than Safari…
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Hard Drive Fail
The hard drive in my server failed in a nasty way. So things may be slightly broken for a few more days, while I fix up things one by one. Lessons learned: while backing up your data stuff is important (/var/www, /opt, etc…) DON’T forget to back up things like /etc and the list of…