Quick thoughts…
Chrome’s Market Share—Buried in an article that points out gains in Win7, Firefox, and IE8 is a statistic that Chrome’s market share (measured by Net Applications) is nearing 4%. I am a big fan of Chrome. Its speed, security, and simplicity tower over the competition right now. I install it on every machine I configure and use. This is also good news for web developers because it is a great browser to develop on.
Retailer email craziness—This shopping holiday has brought a flood of retailer email. Personally, I don’t mind receiving an occasional email from retailers that I use on a regular basis. But, it is getting ridiculous. I am receiving about 2 an hour. I am going to have to start unsubscribing if the insanity continues. Listen marketing and communications folk: as a rule of thumb, you should send 1 email per week per mailing list. No more.
Dropped call etiquette —Because of the crappy state of mobile voice technology, I propose a dropped call etiquette. If a call is dropped, the original caller should call back. If not, it turns into a crazy mess of busy signals and voice mails.









December 1st, 2009 at 6:03 pm
You are right on! The retailers should limit themselves to one email a week. If I get a lot of them, I will just delete them all and not read any of them.
I also agree with your drop call etiquette.
December 2nd, 2009 at 8:56 am
RE: Dropped Call Etiquette….This is the plot of an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. If you’re near the end of a dropped call there’s no need to call back just to say goodbye.