I have a myspace profile that I’ve barely touched since creation; I vaguely recall that I set one up to get access to music from a couple independent groups I was following. So I was surprised to get a policy update email from myspace earlier this week. In contrast to all the privacy policy problems [...]
It’s happening again. Last week, I was caught by captcha. I couldn’t read and therefore failed a captcha challenge when trying to forward a blog post from within Google Reader to multiple recipients. Just now the captcha death spiral happened again, but this time I think there’s a bug. I passed the first captcha challenge [...]
Doh! I’ve been forwarding a bunch of articles from my Google Account through Google Reader. Subjected to captcha challenges, I failed to read a few properly and now am locked out of Google Reader (IP block) for an indeterminate amount of time. Bummer. The user experience here could have been better in two ways: First, [...]
Alright, I don’t want to get anyone in trouble here, especially after what I sort of consider the kindness of strangers, so I won’t disclose too much detail. I’m in NYC. I bumped into a couple Google folks — Google folks working on the Nexus One launch. Sincerely, I congratulated them, knowing it was a [...]
Inspired in part by my colleague Adam Nash’s post on Google Reader, I made the switch a few weeks ago to Google Reader and have been entirely pleased with the clean UI and overall ease of use. I’ve been using the Email function (see screen shot above) recently but, silly me, just fully realized that [...]
