Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
23 Apr 2005C|Net News has a great breakdown of this issue. [here]
C|Net’s Microsoft Blog has more. [here]
Here is the original story in The Stranger.
More in the NY Times.
Now that the bill has been defeated in the Washington State Senate (by a single vote), I no longer have any respect for Microsoft.
Shame on you Microsoft. You are now [...]
In: smp
21 Apr 2005SOGrady has some comments on the US Banking system. [here]
I have yet to figure out the US Banking system. I have lived in this country for 6 years, and what banks do here seems so 19th century. In Canada, when you use the nationally accepted electronic debit system (InterAC), the money is gone from your [...]
In: smp
21 Apr 2005I really try to stay away from political issues, as I am considered an enemy alien living in the US at the will of the DHS.
But if ANYTHING stated in this article is even remotely true, Microsoft has shown that it is morally bankrupt.
I would love to hear some comments from Scoble, Mini-Microsoft, Charlie Kindel, [...]
In: smp
17 Mar 2005I use a major Northeastern US bank. Today is the second day in a row that they have effectively been unreachable through their Web interface.
From the customer service rep I talked to last night, I got the feeling they lost their backend and have had to re-build it from transaction and rollback logs.
And today, their [...]