Quick thoughts…

Dec 1, 2009 Posted in Misc

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.

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  • Dan B Says:

    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.

  • Nick Says:

    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.