According to a Chicago Sun-Times article this week, a renter named Amanda Bonnen tweeted some trash talk about her landlord:
"Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay."
This was mixed with an unremarkable stream of tweets that included:
"All of these people eating McDonalds is making me want to hurl."
"I can tell I'm on the right flight for fort meyers, the average age tends to be about 70."
"We may not win games, but we ALWAYS win at drinking and looking damn good."
Mashable did a story that ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:45AM CDT by brian
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In an article from CNet News last week, it seems like someone at Apple called Microsoft COO Kevin Turner and asked him to stop running those nasty "Laptop Hunter" ads. You know, the ones where they give someone $1,000 and ask them to go into a Microsoft store to see what they can buy? This was a highlight of his keynote speech at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
Anyhow, apparently someone from Apple's legal department called and told Mr. Turner to stop running the ads. "This is a true story," affirms Mr. Turner. I wonder if they also ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:47AM CDT by brian
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I always find Jakob Nielsen's usability columns interesting. I rarely disagree with his mostly common sense approach, however I found myself at odds with a recent Alertbox column, entitled "Stop Password Masking."
In a nutshell, he believes the common practice of displaying dots or asterisks when typing in a password to be unnecessary and a usability problem. He says that it causes users to make more password entry errors since they can not visually verify what is being typed. I agree on both counts.
He says that because password entry errors are more likely, users therefore feel less confident ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:48AM CDT by brian
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