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To: Circuit City and Best Buy. From: You.

The CEO of Circuit City resigned last week after his failed attempt to revitalize the well-known gadget store. Since then, the 'ol City is looking like it's headed the way of CompUSA. The civic-minded Consumerist blog has decided to call on its readers to compile requests into...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Consumerist Blog, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-01

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EPIC ready to sue Facebook over terms

EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, is about to sue Facebook over its bizarrely expansive license agreement, PC World reports "We think that Facebook should go back to its original terms of service," says EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg. Facebook subtly but powerfully changed...

Tags: Facebook, EPIC, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reason

There was some Facebook backlash over the long U.S. weekend that has prompted some calls for boycotts over two sentences that were taken out of the company's Terms of Services agreement earlier this month. Those sentences once allowed users to delete all of their uploaded content - pics, videos, notes...

Tags: Facebook, Blogging, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-17

The irony of Apple packaging

The irony of Apple packagingWhere is NonZealot?I can't wait to hear what you have to say about this article. Guess my post on "Thoughts on the G1 Keyboard" knocked some sense into you.However, I will be the first to say, this packaging is quite ironic. And perhaps this box is...

Tags: Blogging, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs

A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...

Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Your correspondence so far

It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...

Tags: Web Server, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Q., E-mail, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-29

Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heart

There were lots of reactions to my last post about Build-A-Bear luring kids and parents into divulging personal information they might otherwise, in other contexts, guard more closely. While some responses channeled Scott McNealy, most seemed to get that my beef was not with the fact of the data...

Tags: Information, Build-A-Bear, Privacy Policy, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-01-26

SAP SRM, another brick from the wall

The contrast could not be more stark between yesterday's launch of Coupa's Amazon-hosted SaaS e-procurement system and SAP's decision on Friday to cancel the upcoming release of its spend management product. Another beneficiary of SAP's misfortune is SaaS vendor Ketera, which earlier this month added a new supplier management application...

Tags: SAP AG, Amazon.com Inc., Wall, Coupa, Ketera, Amazon Web Services, Service Level Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-10-23

More anti-file-sharing rhetoric in Washington

More anti-file-sharing rhetoric in WashingtonFundingI don't suppose that this bill contains funding that will not result in other activities, ie: education, being cut during the process of trying to convert colleges and universities to selective law enforcement agencies?Do they know who has control?I find it so funny when people talk...

Tags: rhetoric, open source

Discussion threads 2007-07-25