April 4th, 2006

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Google Spoofs “Contextual Romance”

Google Spoofs “Contextual Romance”

Google to Organize World’s Courtship Information with Google Romance
reads the headline. “Service to offer psychographic matchmaking plus free ‘contextual dating’ option.”

Look now, who know how long Google’s April Fools Google Romance beta will be live?

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Not ALL Pictures Are Worth 1,024 Words!!

OK, is it just me, or has the “online video instead of real documentation” craze already gone too far?  I’m talking about the products you can download, usually software, that have an accompanying set of videos to teach you how to use the product. That’s fine for a tutorial, but what if you start using the product, and you get to step 4, and you can’t remember what to do next?  You can click on “Help”, but there’s probably nothing there.

I can appreciate that different people have different learning styles, and that the MTV generation might take in and process and remember visual information better than other generations, but sometimes, don’t you want to just be able to “look something up”?  There’s a big Adwords product out there right now that does this, and when I asked the author if there would be a manual anytime soon, he said he was too busy with his next project to worry about it.  Needless to say, I don’t use the product much anymore.

Hmmmm, maybe I should ask him if he would mind if I wrote a manual and sold it….

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Words: One of Your Better Investments

Words: One of Your Better Investments
In this high-tech medium, your low-tech words will always give you the persuasive advantage.

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Google Releases WYSIWYG Editor

Google Releases WYSIWYG Editor
In a move to prove that Google is coming out with every product and service possible, all for free, they announce Google Page Creator. Google Page Creator is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor allowing someone…

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Download of the Day: Task Coach

Download of the Day: Task Coach
Windows and Mac OS X only: Open source program Task Coach is a simple to-do manager for personal tasks and to-dos. Task Coach grew out of my frustration that well-known task managers, such as…

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