One of My Favorite Buttons
From Full Sterne Ahead
Full Sterne Ahead contains the mostly monthly musings of Jim Sterne, author, speaker, and Web marketing consultant to business and industry.
April, 2002
March, 2002
February, 2002
December, 2001
November, 2001
September, 2001
August, 2001
June, 2001
November, 2000
September, 2000
May, 2000
April, 2000
April, 2002
Plan on wasting a solid fifteen minutes here:
http://math.berkeley.edu/~sethian/Applets/java_files_robotic_illegal/robotic_illegal.html
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March, 2002
The inimitable Mark Gibbs send me a link
to what he referred to as a human meme scanner:
http://totl.net/VirusScanner/
Said Mark: Way cool!
Says Jim: Brand managers, take note!
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February, 2002
Thanks to Karen Childress of www.ihavegoals.com for this one:
http://www.vectorlounge.com/04_amsterdam/jam/wireframe.html
And thanks to Paul Groh of, well, of Paul Groh for this:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index
Yeah, you may have to cut and paste again. Haven't
these people heard of http://www.shorturl.com ?
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December, 2001
1) Click on starting location.
2) Click on destination.
3) iSee will generate path of least surveillance.
http://216.254.112.205/cgi-bin/isee.pl
Spooky.
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November, 2001
Tip of the hat to Yahoo-picks for this enthralling
interface:
http://www.whitney.org/artport/idealine
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September, 2001
A tip of the hat once again to Doc Searls and his Weblog
http://doc.weblogs.com for unearthing this whole series
of buttons:
http://128.241.244.96/portal/uploads/27000/27549_winrg.swf
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August, 2001
I was fascinated by the idea of Daliworld but I had
trouble getting past playing with the logo on the
Splash page. http://www.daliworld.net
You know me - I just hate spinning, flashing, time wasting
stuff like that. But this is so fitting and melds so well
with their branding, that all I could do was marvel and,
well, play with it.
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June, 2001
One of my favorite buttons WOULD be something that we've
needed for a long time.
All e-mail client software should come with a Bounce
button. One click, and spammers get the message that
yours is not an active address. They will not benefit
from selling it to the next 400 spammers.
Guess I'll have to wait for it.
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November, 2000
This month's favorite button is the annals of history. It seems
telecommuting got started with a bang by President Woodrow
Wilson October 10, 1913. He finished off the final excavation
of the Panama Canal by "pressing a button in Washington and
relayed by telegraph from Washington to New York to Galveston
to Panama the signal that blew the center of the dike to
complete the flooding of the Cut and join it to Gatun Lake."
according to www.battleship-newjersey.com/panama/usconstruct.html
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September, 2000
I'm driving along and hear a song I like, or a commercial I'm
interested in. What to do? Whip out a scrap of paper and a pen
and jot it down - and then wave sheepishly to the lady in the
next lane who was leaning on her horn trying to avoid the need
for a new paint job.
It's still going to be that way for a little while. iTag was a
very cool little bauble for your key ring that came pre-set to
your favorite radio station. You like what you hear? You push
the button. (It only had one.)
You could plug it into your serial port, upload your "tags"
and see a list of what was on the air at the time. How did it
know? It was just a clock!
Why was I enthused by this? Because, like millions of other
subscribers to Wired and Forbes (at least by blood), I got
my hands on a :Cue:Cat slimline scanner thingy.
www.digitalconvergence.com
You can only use it while plugged in to your computer. iTag
was a cool little gadget meant to be portable and suitable
for impressing your friends. The other is a not-so-reliable
pain in the butt that will be used once by the technically
inclined and then discarded as a waste of time.
The sad part arrived on the 18th of this month:
> From: "Xenote"
> To: jsterne@targeting.com
> Subject: IMPORTANT: Xenote regrets operations will cease
> 9/22
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> We regret to announce that we must discontinue the
> Xenote.com service for the Xenote iTag.
>
> XENOTE.COM WEBSITE WILL SHUT DOWN THIS
> FRIDAY, 9/22/00
>
> The Xenote.com web site and all user accounts will be
> disabled on or before Friday, September 22nd. Current
> economic conditions are such that we have been unable
> to secure funding and must therefore cease operations.
But to prove that good ideas still have a shot, there's the
$19.99 programmable relative to the iTag; the Sony eMarker
www.emarker.com It's just not as cool as the late,
single button original.
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May, 2000
Got A Question? AskIt!
That's what the button says and it acts a little like Ask
Jeeves, but with a twist. When a site visitor asks a question,
AskIt! comes up with nearest questions and answers. If they're
not a close enough match, another click turns the question into
an e-mail for your response center to respond to. The reply
is then dropped into the knowledgebase along with the question
and pretty soon, all of your most frequently asked questions are
in there.
And they're an ASP so it's a no stress, no fuss implementation.
And the cost for using this system starts out at Free.
Full disclosure: I have no financial investment in this company.
Dang.
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April, 2000
The "Make Bullshit" button at
www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Did I say this was a family newsletter? It is!
You just haven't met my family...
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