Another day, another carrier in the soup. Same old iPhone. An informative NY Times article nails the problem AT&T is having today, which Verizon and every other US carrier will have tomorrow. It’s those pesky iPhone users sucking up all of the bandwidth. “The average iPhone owner pays AT&T $2,000 during his two-year contract — roughly twice the amount of the average mobile phone customer. More than 20 million other smartphone users are on the AT&T network, but other phones do not drain the network the way the nine million iPhones users do. Cellphone owners using other carriers may gloat now, but the problems of AT&T and the iPhone portend their future.”
Good enough. Wired magazine article titled “The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine” uses several popular product examples along with a Clay Shirky quote or two to remind us why we must at some point say our offering is good enough, get it out the door, and allow something great to happen.
Yelpin! I haven’t posted a single review or business snapshot to Yelp, but I’ve been spending time with it on my iPhone and appreciating how it’s poised to explode. Apparently it’s been growing 80% a year and if a brick-n-mortar business is smart, they had better take notice.
Comcast Cares, the Sequel. Comcast support has really been impressing the heck out of me. I described in May 26 Everyman how I tweeted about connection issues when @ComcastBill replied “Can I help?” The new cable modem he recommended through remote diagnosis fixed me right up. This past Sunday I offered up a single tweet into the Twittersphere asking if anyone else in South Burlington was having connection problems. @ComcastMelissa tweeted back soon after offering assistance and noticed some signal drop-off occurring with my connection. Remember, this was a Sunday no less. Monday I received a call from ComcastRoger to schedule a visit for that afternoon or the following day. ComcastDarren arrived the next morning as scheduled, checking everything in the house as well as the main tap by the street. He was top notch in every respect. As for my problem? There was a splitter on the line I didn’t know about and the connections at the tap were worn pretty badly, which he replaced. Comcast service certainly performs at 100% peak efficiency from my experience.
CSS tricks for everybody. The day may come when applications can write their own code, but no doubt there will always be CSS work for us mechanical turks to do. Here are 25 good CSS tricks, and I bet there are a few you didn’t know.
Snippets. Here’s the beef. ScottGu does what ScottGu does so well, get you all pumped-up for the next release of Visual Studio. Here he demonstrates beefy snippet functionality coming in VS2010.
Good looking Nordic Track Pro. If you’re in the #BTV area you need to check out this good looking Nordic Track Achiever Ski Machine for $50 on Craigslist. If I didn’t already have two I’d snap this up.