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Captcha Gone Mad
While I can fully understand and appreciate people using captcha on web submission forms to stop spam / robots, I really don't get why anyone would make a captcha so complicated that it is unusable.The IIA Netvisionary nomination form has this "lovely" captcha on it:I saw that and my eyes glazed over.Sorry guys, but there is no way that I'm even going to attempt to make sense … [Read more...] about Captcha Gone Mad
Godin Gets To The Point
I've been a fan of Seth Godin's writings for quite some time, so I was delighted when my copy of The Big Red Fez arrived a couple of days ago.In common with some of Godin's other books, The Big Red Fez is not a hefty volume with tiny print. It's just over 100 pages long, but every second page is a screenshot of a website or email, so it's actually a mere 50 pages in total. But … [Read more...] about Godin Gets To The Point
StumbleUpon, Jaiku and Travian
I signed up for a StumbleUpon account nearly 3 years ago. Of course I lost the login details and ended up creating another account last year, which I then forgot about. Bernie was inviting people to connect with him earlier this evening, so I dugout the original emails...While I can appreciate that StumbleUpon is free and useful it's got some really annoying UI / "user … [Read more...] about StumbleUpon, Jaiku and Travian
Vodafone.ie Revamped
Vodafone have relaunched their Irish site.The new design is clean and fresh.The only quibble I have is that the shop is much harder to access, as you now have to lie to gain access to pricing ie. if you don't lie you get caught up in an intricate loop of questions before they'll let you near the products.While I can understand the need to guide people to the right product … [Read more...] about Vodafone.ie Revamped