Someone complained when I made the comment that shoppers may tire quickly of Groupon’s daily deals now that the initial buzz has worn off. My point what that when Groupon started the idea of a sky diving lessons or massages for low prices was compelling because those were things that many people wanted to do [...]
Deals
I am a big fan of Woot. Like many others, I like their deal-of-the-day and follow it on a pretty regular basis. In case you aren’t familiar with it, Woot.net offers one “deal” every day. When that deal is sold out, it is all gone and you can’t get anymore. No new deal takes its [...]
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Jun
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WGHubris on June 2nd, 2009
I’ve been tinkering around with various website designs for an upcoming project. The idea was to take the best design elements of each website design that I like or that has top notch functionality and then combine them into a single great website design. Unfortunately, it isn’t possible to design a one-size-fits-all website layout that [...]
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May
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WGHubris on May 21st, 2009
I keep seeing computer ads for PCs or Laptops that have Microsoft Vista Home Basic installed. DO NOT BUY A COMPUTER WITH VISTA HOME BASIC unless you want to pay for your upgrade to Windows 7. Microsoft has said that it will offer free OS upgrades to Windows 7, but only for Vista Home Premium [...]
