Archive for July, 2008
My love/hate relationships with fighting games
There’s something exhilarating about fighting games. When you’re playing a first-person shooter or an RPG, or even an MMORPG, events unfold rather slowly. In Halo, you’re scouting out an area before being attacked, and in World Of Warcraft, you could ride for miles before seeing something to fight. However, in fighting games, you’re thrown into [...]
Sprint needs a lesson in customer service optimization
Just before Podcamp NYC in April, 2008, I bought EVDO from Sprint for my Mac. Other than problems with activating the device, I really haven’t had any problems. However, since I got the service, the credit card I used to autopay my bill had expired. I came home today to a “past due” bill and [...]
Patience dot net
In this world of “ZOMG you don’t own your real name as a domain name?”, I fought very hard to decide if I really cared enough to get my real name as a .com or .net. I found that as time went on, it would be better to have it, at least in my back [...]
The state of conversations on the internet
Ever since Twitter started having brain damage, I’ve been seeing a trend that I hoped would stop. People are using ping.fm, a service that blasts your microblogging messages to multiple sites, and are having a hard time keeping up with the sites that they’re sending the messages to. Pownce was Twitter’s competition last year, but [...]
