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  • T-Mobile doesn't know how to treat its customers

    It looks like T-Mobile dropped their data plan from $29.99/mo to $19.99/mo. I originally thought this was related to the new unlimited rate plans and losing the Starbucks account , but it was actually back in September (on my birthday no less). I must have missed it at the time, given that whole wedding...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-24-2008

  • What exactly is an iPhone application?

    Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The iPhone is the only mobile phone that...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007

  • DHL Sucks

    I ordered a package from Amazon and noticed they now have an option for Saturday delivery with Prime. Excellent... What I did not realize at the time is that this ships with DHL. Every single time something has been shipped to me via DHL, something went wrong. Once, a Bluetooth module for my M200 showed...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-03-2007

  • Another ironic Mac commercial

    We already know some of the ads in the Get-A-Mac campaign don't exactly make sense . The latest, "Counselor", seems particularly ironic to me. In the ad, the Mac says that the PC "is a wizard with numbers and dresses like a gentleman". The PC is able to say that the Mac is "better with creative stuff...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-19-2006

  • More innovative advertising in a TiVO world

    Honda previously launched 5-second ads to combat the effects of Tivo . Now Fox is embracing that model , "running a 30-second television spot with just one static image in an effort to reach viewers who fast forward through ads using digital video recorders like TiVos." "Viewers fast-forwarding through...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-11-2006

  • Buzzwords say all the wrong things

    As I've written in the past, I'm not a big fan of buzzwords because "they're vague, overbroad, ill-defined, and most of all trivialize what is really going on in the first place." Matt at 37Signals says there might be other reasons to avoid buzzwords . These buzzwords are often a mask. People who use...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-10-2006

  • How Chase lost me as a customer

    I've been a moderately happy Chase customer for about 10 years now. I originally chose them because my father used it, and I was able to open a joint savings account under his checking account to avoid fees back when I was in high school. It was convenient from my parents' house, and it was certainly...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-07-2006

  • Most people pay for advertising, but EA wants to charge for it

    Starting this Friday, EA and ESPN are making a behind-the-scenes preview of Madden NFL 07 available . Rather than give it away, they are planning on selling it on pay-per-view (yes, through your cable provider) and online for $20. In a recent Major Nelson podcast, they justified it because, apparently...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-03-2006
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