amazon tablet announcement next week btw
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
thx 4 that article hoos, will read
I wouldn't want one click to mean one click. Who would besides a compulsive internet shopper? And I don't think that one click has all that much to do with the quality of amazon's user experience. I also don't think that there aren't significant design flaws on amazon, that it deserves any status besides "above average" or "got there first" or "hasn't obsolesced." I've had to look around and learn the layout of the pages on the site as much as I would on any other adequately designed site, and its layout of links, options, and tools for sellers takes even more learning.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
The "one click is one click" angle is definitely important and relevant. However, I'm speaking more to the parts of user experience that deal with interface design and actual web interactions and the closest the article you sent gets to that is: "Customer experience includes having the lowest price, having the fastest delivery, having it reliable enough so that you don't need to contact anyone. Then you save customer service for those truly unusual situations."
That's kind of a far cry from web experience! That speaks more to supply chain, which Amazon does remarkably well.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of agree on the "one click" thing being essential as well. At the time of its introduction, it was seen more as a patent trolling type of situation, and outside of specific products (mostly digital media), I don't find it particularly necessary. I tend to either shift things from a wish list to a buy list, or put together actual orders of multiple items.
fwiw, Bezos's name does appear on the one click patent:http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=5960411&KC=&FT=E&locale=en_EP#
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
amazon's great
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
amazon priiiiiiiiiiime
To be fair, the supply chain is kind of part of the web experience. It has to be integrated into the overall design, and customers aren't necessarily going to separate the two in their impression of a website.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
the "if it works, it works" argument
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
I also remember people complaining about Amazon's poor customer service for years! They were notorious for not having a published phone number anywhere on the site. They now have it as an option after bouncing through a troubleshooting dialog about order problems.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
never have problems w/ amazon -- prime!!!
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
they're also shitty to their temp workers
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917,0,7937001,full.story
― Mr. Que, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
shit just shows up! fast!
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
I think my point is that while the big picture is a relevant part of user experience (yeah, UX) that the particular web design part of it isn't one that I've seen with a direct link to Bezos.
That doesn't necessarily mean that there are designers that have been there for the last fifteen years who should have the credit, or that Bezos has no input in the hiring, but part of having a well-run business is the ability to hire talented people. Generally, giving people credit starts at the top but should really flow down, while blame too often is laid on the lower tiers when it should make its way up. No executive does an excellent job without relying on talented people, and no grunt worker really fails without levels of management having failed in some way.
markers I also have amazon prime but it's not the solution to everything :)
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm speaking more to the parts of user experience that deal with interface design and actual web interactions and the closest the article you sent gets to that is: "Customer experience includes having the lowest price, having the fastest delivery, having it reliable enough so that you don't need to contact anyone. Then you save customer service for those truly unusual situations."
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, September 23, 2011 8:36 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i'll own up here that when i said 'bezos on that other level' i was sorta pulling it out of my ass as shorthand for 'amazon knows what its doing wrt ux'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I want the name and title of all of your managers, hoos, so I can give them credit when you do something insightful
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
and that the consistency of ux bespeaks a consistency of vision that suggests a braintrust, and that i'd be surprised if bezos himself wasn't part of that in some way
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
I like how markers makes fun of things while at the same time being extremely sincere about them. It's like he's merged the sarcastic meaning with the literal meaning.
― bamcquern, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
i do live prime tbh
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
i love physical books and being able to get them in two days is really nice -- esp. w/ amazon's selection & prices
love, not live
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
coming soon amazon liveprime
order your life in realtime
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
damnnnnnnn *orders life*
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
free 2-day shipping!
― rebels against newton (Z S), Friday, 23 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
well, for only $79.99 a year
― rebels against newton (Z S), Friday, 23 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
has a hoos ever worked with IA, UX, or web teams?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, 23 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
yah i've done junior IA stuff as an intern and its where i want to be eventually
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
lookin at u of balt's UX/IA grad program for next fall, fingers crossed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
― rebels against newton (Z S), Friday, September 23, 2011 5:10 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― rebels against newton (Z S), Friday, September 23, 2011 5:11 PM
XD
― markers, Friday, 23 September 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/amazon/
The prevailing American story line right now is seething anger at politicians: that they’re corrupt, or heartless, or socialist, or dumb. But the Amazon story, and many other recent developments, suggest that the problem is significantly deeper.Far beyond official Washington, we would seem to be witnessing a fraying of the bonds of empathy, decency, common purpose. It is becoming a country in which people more than disagree. They fail to see each other. They think in types about others, and assume the worst of types not their own.It takes some effort these days to remember that the United States is still one nation.It doesn’t feel like one nation when a company like Amazon, with such resources to its name, treats vulnerable people so badly just because it can.
Far beyond official Washington, we would seem to be witnessing a fraying of the bonds of empathy, decency, common purpose. It is becoming a country in which people more than disagree. They fail to see each other. They think in types about others, and assume the worst of types not their own.
It takes some effort these days to remember that the United States is still one nation.
It doesn’t feel like one nation when a company like Amazon, with such resources to its name, treats vulnerable people so badly just because it can.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 23 September 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
more ~past of the internet~, neat but kinda pointless resurrection of geocities data
http://vimeo.com/29523075
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdespinosa.posterous.com/fire
― markers, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
damn
thx for that
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
“Think of it as a product like foursquare or Klout initially, but around your financial life,” Mr. King said. “Wherein a typical bank might say–you come to them, and you say you want a credit card–and you’re a customer with a score of say 580, the bank’s going to say ‘no, you’re marginal, you’re too high-risk.’ But we might give them a card based on other things. Say they have 10,000 friends on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll say okay, they have high influence–we should probably pay this guy to get access to his friends list!”
~You May Soon Be Able to Get A Credit Line Based on Your Klout Score~ with this thing Movenbank
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aXV-yaFmQNk#!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 October 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
why don't embeds work anymore??
They work if you take that "Feature=player_embedded" stuff out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 13 October 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
oh thx good to know
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 October 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Liked it up until the pointless Steve Jobs idolatry, at which I vomited on my shoes.
― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
true
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
the nearly universal tone of the comments is WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PARENTS which kind of surprised me?
but then i'm a guy who regularly posts on future of ~the internet~
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate's associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers, as well as reveal the syndicates' businesses.The vow is a bizarre cyber twist to Mexico's ongoing drug war, as a group that has no guns is squaring off against the Zetas, a cartel blamed for thousands of deaths as well as introducing beheadings and other frightening brutality."You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him," says a masked man in a video posted online on behalf of the group, Anonymous."It won't be difficult; we all know who they are and where they are located," says the man, who underlines the group's international ties by speaking Spanish with the accent of a Spaniard while using Mexican slang."We demand his release," says the Anonymous spokesman, who is wearing a mask like the one worn by the shadowy revolutionary character in the movie V for Vendetta, which came out in 2006. "If anything happens to him, you sons of (expletive) will always remember this upcoming November 5."
The vow is a bizarre cyber twist to Mexico's ongoing drug war, as a group that has no guns is squaring off against the Zetas, a cartel blamed for thousands of deaths as well as introducing beheadings and other frightening brutality.
"You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him," says a masked man in a video posted online on behalf of the group, Anonymous.
"It won't be difficult; we all know who they are and where they are located," says the man, who underlines the group's international ties by speaking Spanish with the accent of a Spaniard while using Mexican slang.
"We demand his release," says the Anonymous spokesman, who is wearing a mask like the one worn by the shadowy revolutionary character in the movie V for Vendetta, which came out in 2006. "If anything happens to him, you sons of (expletive) will always remember this upcoming November 5."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJORGO1Q2VY
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
whoah
― owenf, Monday, 31 October 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
They're going to shut down their Facebooks accounts too?!?!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 31 October 2011 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
need to watch the vid again but i'm pretty sure it's text-to-speech, sounds to me no more high-minded than 'mexican hacker using tts voice w/default spanish accent.'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
p sure the only thing this guarantees is that kidnapped anon is now headless anon.
― oppet, Monday, 31 October 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
anon veracruz fb page is saying none of their people have been kidnapped, the guy who orig posted the video says 'opcartel' is going forward, sanctioned or not.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
u do realize though that if a list of names comes out, no matter who puts it out, all those people have targets on their backs from the many, many people gunning for the zeta's top spot, right? xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
like if this goes forward its gonna mean a lotta z connected ppl gonna wind up dead and vcruz is gonna get even messier as the cycle of reprisal intensifies.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link