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AOL /SLASHCONTROL: More Like /SLASHFAIL - November 4th, 2009

I came across this steaming pile of fail today, and couldn’t resist the urge to say something about it. /SLASHCONTROL, or /CTRL, or /C, or however else you may find it badged, appears to be AOL’s newest and most pathetic venture into new and exciting world of Hulu ripoffs. AOL is a highly transparent company, [...]

Tags: aol, fail, hulu, video
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CNN Expects You to Pay to Work for Them - September 29th, 2009

Today, CNN’s new app hit the App Store, and the world rejoiced. Mashable reported on it, and told masses of impressionable readers that it was impressive. I’m not going to disagree with Ben on this, but I am going to chime in a bit where he left off. What wasn’t talked about all that much [...]

Tags: app store, apple, cnn, iphone
Posted in apple, fail, news

 

Facebook Lite: Already Getting Trashy - September 21st, 2009

When Facebook Lite launched just under two weeks ago, my immediate reaction was a sigh of relief, followed by the question “how long will it take them to trash up this one, too?” When I asked that question, I fully expected to find out by Christmas. I thought wrong.

Tags: ads, facebook, facebook lite, fail, marketing
Posted in fail

 

Facebook Overdose is Imminent. - September 15th, 2009

Well, imminent for the general population… I’m already having convulsions. Today, in a blog post, Facebook announced they’ve reached the 300 million user landmark. It was less than six months ago that the company hit 200 million. They’ve also gone from struggling to monetize to “succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable way.” In fact, [...]

Tags: facebook, fail, google, twitter
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Silverlight? For a Search Engine? - September 15th, 2009

Image via Bing. Yesterday, I read in Mashable that big Redmond released the newest beta adventure for their upstart search engine, Bing. I wasn’t originally planning on posting anything about this, because it’s non-news, but it’s been irking me all day. So what was this release? They’ve apparently come up with a visual search. This [...]

Tags: bing, fail, microsoft, search, silverlight
Posted in fail, microsoft

 

@Names: The Internet's New Handles? - September 11th, 2009

[UPDATE]: Facebook’s “tagging” feature went live today (14Sep09), using the @mention format, and it seems to be nothing more than an autocomplete feature for mentioning people on your friends list. Once you choose a name, it simply substitutes the @name you’ve typed for the person’s full name, which is also a hyperlink to their profile. [...]

Tags: adium, AIM, facebook, fail, IM, pidgin, twitter
Posted in fail, news, social-networking

 

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