Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2012

List #750: Online Services I Currently Have Beef With

List #750: Online Services I Currently Have Beef With (or at very least a distinct love/hate relationship)

1. Google: hiding advanced search; "Social" Search is opt-out rather than opt-in; weird dropdown tool bar on some of my browsers; over focus on trying to 'beat' facebook when Google is a search engine; forcing a location for search; for creeping towards evil
2. Hulu+: for not streaming to Roku any of the stuff I'd actually pay money to have on my TV (since I have multiple ways to watch it on a computer screen, all of which are free and most of which are legal)
3. Facebook: for making Google worse (see #1); for the inevitable switch to that white-hot mess of unreadable Timeline; for eliminating blog importing; for general exploitation
4. Amazon* (only because the Kindle Fire isn't quite what I hoped it could be... Amazon Prime rules, and renting/on-demand movies on the Roku are great)
5. Barnes and Noble Nook: for not being awesome for libraries... again, that's really Big Publishing's fault, not theirs
6. iTunes: for generally being more expensive than amazon's mp3 store. (I have gift cards, but i still feel it's wasteful to spend $1-2 more on an album, or .30 more on an individual track)
7. Bing: For not having an Advanced Search link in an immediate and obvious place on their home page; for requiring a set location for search results; for trying to do too much thinking for the user.
8. Any online service provider that supports SOPA.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

List #288: How kids on the internet would rate my performances at the show tonight

List #288: How kids on the internet would rate my performances at the Love Concert tonight

1. Autumn Leaves - Win
2. Here Comes the Sun - Win
3. Major Label Debut - Epic Win
4. Come Together - Win
5. Party in the USA - Epic FAIL... OR, more kindly,: "ur doin it rong"
6. Party in the USA Sing Along - Win

Thursday, October 29, 2009

List #272: Internet things that annoy me

List #272: Internet things that annoy me

1. People writing "first post"
2. Really large "signature" pictures
3. purposeful misspellings that are not that much more efficient (or are less efficient!) especially in non-chat situations. except leetspeak because there's an art to that.
4. video pop-up ads / audio ads
5. visual clutter
6. when I accidentally clear my firefox tabs

Thursday, September 10, 2009

List #222: Websites that have been indespensible to me recently

List #222: Websites that have been indespensible to me recently

1. www.dmbalmanac.com
2. www.dreamingtree.org
3. www.antsmarching.org