Nilay Patel:
Here’s a fun tidbit we just learned from Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore: in order to focus Windows Phone 7 Series on the idea of best serving end users, the team actually created two fictional targets consumers named “Miles” and “Anna,” a pair of married 38-year old “life maximizers” who demand the most from their devices.
Life maximizers? WTF?
Ken Fisher:
Starting late Friday afternoon we conducted a 12 hour experiment to see if it would be possible to simply make content disappear for visitors who were using a very popular ad blocking tool.
All I want to point out is that this is a dumb solution to their problem. They are mad because people are costing them money, so their response is to block those people. So they still don’t make money and they piss off customers? Clearly they didn’t go to marketing classes in college. Idiots.
How does all 4 star ratings equal the final score of 4.5 out of 5?????
Paul Thurrott via Daring Fireball
All I can say is: This guys is, and has always been a d-bag.
Wow would not have guessed that…
Damon Darlin:
Perhaps that’s true in a handful of ZIP codes around the country, Dr. Anderegg conceded. But in most of America, he said, nerds and geeks are people to avoid. The connotations are a bit different: a geek suggests a person with special expertise, while nerds suggests social ineptness. And neither are cool.
So this guy is saying that we shouldn’t use the term ‘nerds’ and ‘geeks’ becuase it is detrimental to those people. But yet no one sees a large negative connotation with these groups anymore (my opinion) except this guy who goes on to stat as fact that they are “people to avoid”.
What a jackass.
Vladislav Savov:
It turns out, perhaps in an homage to bad engineering everywhere, that the inefficiency of incandescent light bulbs was previously relied upon to keep traffic signals unimpeded. The new LEDs do not achieve the same effect, which has resulted in a few accidents and even a death being blamed on obstructed traffic lights. Feel free to apply palm to face now. It’s not all gloomy, though, as the majority of people are said to treat a dysfunctional traffic light as a stop sign (how clever of them), and a tech fix is being worked on as we speak.
Seriously who drives up to an intersection and sees that the lights are covered in snow, then proceeds to act as if their light is green. Forget the bad engineering, this is great population control.
Stop Sign Designed by Committee via UsedWigs
Alternatively, why design by committee is bad.
(via clientsfromhell)
The sad part is that the guy is probably right (not about the page numbers, but about people not flipping over the card).
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