Browsers have largely remained the same as far as user interface goes with the notable addition of tabs. (I love my tabs.) The Firefox team is working on a new concept called Tab Candy which would not only help you manage your tabs more efficiently, but create new ways to share information and browse with friends.
Check out the video below. Fair warning: on a geekiness scale of 10 this probably ranks at about an 8.
Actually, that’s not a bad idea. I should probably rate most of my posts on a geekiness scale and create custom RSS feeds based on each level of geekiness. That way my mom (who sometimes still calls Firefox, Foxfire, bless her heart) would read my blog without fear of coming across posts like this.
The fact that I’m discussing putting a Geekiness Scale on my blog with custom RSS feeds has just bumped this post from an 8 to a 9.
Enjoy the video (it’s probably best to watch it full-screen) and let me know what you think in the comments.
An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Tagged: Cool Concepts
My Pandora experience
I’m new to Pandora. I was enjoying the service with the exception of a few skanky American Apparel ads. I’m not sure what they were advertising exactly, but it must have been some kind of shirt because the girl in the ad wasn’t wearing anything else.
Ahem.
So I shot off an email to Pandora to voice my concern/complaint about the ads.
Shortly after I got a “Thanks for your feedback, we’re looking into it”-type of response. Unsatisfied, I wrote back and asked when I should expect to hear back on how the matter was resolved. Less than 10 minutes later:
Impressive. Fast. Responsive. I gave them a shout-out on Twitter. Later that day I got this:
And it came in the mail today. Along with some stickers, a hand-signed letter from the founder and, oddly, a CD* opener/cleaner contraption:
Pandora did a great job of taking what could have been very negative (this post would have been very different) and turned it into a situation where I’m telling random coworkers about Pandora’s awesomeness.
*CDs? Really? Pandora is two steps removed from CDs (CD -> MP3 -> streaming music) so it seems odd to send out a tool to help you open and clean them. But thanks just the same.
Tagged: Business