So in the past year, a lot has happened in music. Radiohead, Coldplay, and recently announced Metallica have been selling their albums via digital download, and you name your price. Radiohead had over 1 million downloads, and averaged $8 a user. Thats amazing.
Now, Nine Inch Nails is taking it a step further. Free. You heard me, 100% free.
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com
Could it be Trent Resnor truly enjoys making music, so much so that giving it away makes him happy? Or is this just hype, for concert promotions & other product sales?
What do you think?
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So I get a lot of spam. I mean a lot. Probably 300 - 500 a day. I assume its because I am awesome, but its really because my email is listed as the registered owner and tech contact on about 25 domains.
While Apple mail rocks, it still has to sort the spam to my junk folder, and spam is still in the way when I check my webmail.
Enter solution:
Now Google bought out part of (maybe all of) Postini, and made it cheap. $3 per user, per year.
I have implemented this on my email account here at factor 1. Let me tell you, in the past few days, my spam has dropped to 5 or 10 a day. My Apple mail catches those.
This is the same system google uses to filter the amazingly spam free gmail. So I essentially have the gmail filtering system, on my commercial hosted email account.
I would recommend this to anyone with an email address. I have had good success so far, and very limited legit email caught in the filter (which I can check online)
https://www.postini.com/postini_solutions/email_security.php
My Friend Seth (he may not know we are friends yet) posted a great thought on the ratio of Signal to noise.
This really rings true being a web designer. We are often asked about creating secondary, and tertiary (and beyond) websites, just to link back to the main site. People tend to believe that throwing more billboards up will increase sales or traffic.
I think sometimes, these people need to look within, and see how they can better improve their company, product, service, or customer care. Then see what that does to sales. But thats the hard way. Its easier to throw money and marketing at the problem to see what tricks customers into the door.
PC manufacturers wont take your kool-aid of an OS and keep using what was tried and tre, even in the PC world.
Windows XP lives on through licensing loopholes
I guess this should force microsoft to build a better system, and fast. If history is any indication, it could be another 3 - 4 years for another microsoft OS attempt. Apple will have had 4 or 5 OS releases since the original XP, and Linux will have had time to convince the mainstream that Ubuntu is a great Windows alternative.
Sometimes I dont get out of the office as much as I would like.
This helps.
jpgmag.com
I can sit here, and spend 10 minutes exploring the 4 corners of our globe, as seen through the eyes and lenses of people I dont know.
Gets the creative juices going sometimes.
Published April 24, 2008
in humor.
seriously. these are awesome.
See the rest here
Found via Brad
So US airways decided this month to charge more for window and aisle seats, and leave the less than desirable middle seats at the current rates.
What I see they are doing here, is US air carriers continuing to drive a wedge between the consumer and the airline. Flying used to be fun. 10 years ago it took 4 hours to fly from LA to NY. Now it takes 6.5 hours with all the waiting on the run way. The TSA has their own set of issues. Flying is becoming more of a hassle than ever.
Continue reading ‘I see a need for a full service quality US based air carrier.’
Eighty-five percent of respondents agreed that the quality of a business owner’s website is an important factor in earning the consumer’s trust. Over 75 percent of respondents said they were more likely to make a purchase from “an unfamiliar business with a quality website,” than “a poor website from a known business.”
This is from a Study by Nielsen and WebVisible as reported by Peter Krasilovsky
How does your site hold up? Would 85% of people trust you based on your site?
Warning: This is a technical, website coding post. Not really marketing related.
So I was coding a site today while waiting at the dentist office (I am a geek I know). And I decided I would name one of my Div IDs “960wrapper”, to indicate that this div was 960px wide. Makes sense right? After doing this, and some other code the issue arises. My html is not seeing this div. at all.
I added a border stroke to outline it
nothing.
I added a background color, and a min-height.
still nothing.
Keep in mind I have no internet, since I’m in a waiting room. So no google searches, no CSS xray tool.
I am about to pull my short hair out.
In some playing, tweaking, and overall trying to do anything to make this simple div wrapper to work, I re-title it to just “wrapper”
And BAM it works. I think I let out a little victorious battle cry in midst of the dentist office.
So what I figured out:
Div ID’s seem to not like names starting with numbers.
I did a few google searches back at the office. Nothing. I cant find anything related to this issue. Can any web CSS geeks point me to where I can learn why this method wont work?