I’m beta testing Gmail. Send me a message, davidwertheimer at gmail dot com. So far it looks pretty sweet. (Review to follow.)
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New content over at User Savvy: A review of “Speed Up Your Site,” the useful Web site optimization book by Andrew King.
Nick Denton and Meg Hourihan launched Kinja, the automated blog blogger, today. So far it looks pretty good: clean UI, easy to follow instructions, decent digest tools.
I don’t get why there’s no master list of weblogs for me to peruse and choose, though. Or how this is easier for the layman than bouncing through a bunch of bookmarks. I also am not seeing this post appearing in my digest as I add and update it, so I’m not sure how the engine works (do I need an RSS feed?).
Still, if Kinja is anything like Denton’s other ventures, it will subversively work its way into my file of daily must-haves. Best of luck.
Here’s my Kinja digest (still evolving as of April 1).
More on Kinja: New York Times coverage; Nick Denton’s remarks.
My delicious link log is hippity hopping these days. If I get some free time (and some inclination) I’ll start including the links here.
I bought a Lexar Jump Drive USB memory flash drive today. My purchase went through circuitcity.com, because Circuit City is across the street from my apartment, and I can pick up my already-placed order on my way home tonight.
Circuit City led me to believe I got a great deal on the drive: $20 off their $99.99 list price with an “unpublishable” discount, and a $20 mail-in rebate, bringing the total to $59.99.
However, a little price shopping reveals otherwise.
J&R: $59.99
Amazon.com: $64.14
TechOnWeb: $67.02
Fry’s/Outpost.com: $69.99
I still got the best available price (tax and shipping being a wash), and thanks to Circuit City’s in-store pickup, I’ll have it today. But does CC really charge $99 on non-sale days? I suspect they’re actually playing games to keep the float on my $20 rebate for a good three months before releasing my money back to me.
So long as the product is in stock when I arrive tonight, I’ll be a contented customer. But I’m now a skeptical one. That’s probably not what a troubled electronics retailer wants, especially when good old J&R can price-match so smoothly.
I’ve started keeping a linklog at del.icio.us. Sooner or later I’ll have the links included on this page in an RSS feed. Expect no particular rhyme or reason to the links I share. Which, of course, is the fun of it.
After a good year-plus away from its main site, I have become addicted to Ask Metafilter. The one-stop, no-parameters Q&A is terrific; I have contributed already to discussions on cell phones, minivans and room partitions. The questions are generally thought-provoking or useful. And, of course, once in a while someone posts a real humdinger.
User Savvy is now publishing articles. My first piece, The true use of usability expertise, is now available. Look for more throughout the month and in 2004.
I love when good ideas are executed almost as soon as constituents think of them.
Matt Haughey, November 6: Fly the WiFi skies. “Picture this: one airline being known for having free wireless near their gates at every major airport across the country. An airline that was wifi-friendly would be known by business people overnight as the airline to take (or at least the terminal to hang out nearby when you fly).”
Press notice, November 12: JetBlue Introduces Free High-Speed Wireless Service At JFK. “With this new service, JetBlue customers can now take advantage of free high-speed wireless access on both coasts, as complimentary wireless access is also available at JetBlue’s west coast base at LA/Long Beach Airport by the City of Long Beach.”
See you at the terminal.
Addendum: While you’re on Matt’s site and learning about good customer orientation, check out his latest discovery—that customers can’t call Best Buy stores anymore.