Getting Iraqis out of the World Cup audience is
just another point into making Iraq look just like another mainland US state, clean,
democratic and healthy-eating. Then if you read the forums and the bug database, you
might believe that AdBlock is practically discontinued and a hero is saving the
world with a new extension, AdBlock Plus.
Especially if this group has tech skills, work hard
to make them feel engaged and frequently ask them what they like about the
job.
This is what came to my mind after I had some very
bad experiences with Google support representatives.
With the current, temporary, version, lots of
strange error are hurting the user experience.
Lack of planning creates this kind of impatience,
"let's see, maybe Mr. You and the Universe have to be 'on the same page' to be
successful.
Not that you really wanted a tool that doesn't work
fully unless you are running Windows under an administrative account.
Care must be taken that these people do not get
left unchecked until they have severely damaged the company image, which as a social
insider, is not difficult to do.
RealNetworks gave me a hard time, because these TV
stations are not available to the US audience, no matter how much you would
pay.
In the best of situations, you should try to move
these employees to a more positive feeling for the company.
Your spoken words come back and you and may pollute
or heal you. I just had to claim my billing address is the one that I had in
Romania, and I got the European version of the Real Superpass, more expensive, but
with less useless movie trailers.
I'm not going into conspiracy theories about why
Google wants us to keep the messages in the Archive, but you're free to do it. For
me bugs are easier to accept than the lack of planning. I am still assessing the
impact of the digital failure on the classic media, and I believe is more of a fuss
then of a real impact. I won't forge ahead with the stories that nobody can prove.
The simple logic says these are bad people, because people with to much time on
their hands are what makes a bad reputation for a neigbourhood. It's easy now, when
some of the Mozilla software managers are Google employees, to do whatever you want
with the browser, calling it an update or a re-thinking etc. The TV stations that I
can watch don't own any rights at all, either on the classical TV signal or on the
Internet. Is like an announcement: see, we have implemented Web Services, we are
really smart, buy T-shirts with our logo.
Alternatively, you can ask Paul Thurrott for his
pirated XP key.
Read the EULAs, the small prints - you are allowing
them to do precisely that, by mistake.
It's nothing new, the Olympics were offline too.