9/11 Wars + Tax Cuts + Bailouts = Recession.
This article analyzes, chronologically, how the US got itself – and the world – into the current recession. I wrote this post primarily… [read full post]
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Greetings,
My name is Erik Heels, I am a lawyer, and this is my LawLawLaw newsletter, available at http://www.lawlawlaw.com.
LawLawLaw includes my observations on trends in technology, IP law (trademarks, domain names, and patents), baseball (long story), and rock ‘n’ roll (longer story). Besides IP law, I’m good at spotting trends, connecting people on social networks, fixing things, boiling… [read full post]
Posted September 17, 2010, in Apple, Branding, Google, Microsoft, Random, Worst Practices by Erik J. Heels (permalink: http://www.erikjheels.com/2474.html)
Dear Peeps: Please stop using these CEO pics. They are officially overexposed. Kthxbai.
I see the same goofy CEO pics in Google Reader daily. So I reviewed the top 100 brands on Deloitte’s brand list and Interbrand’s top 100 global brands list to come up with this list.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be done.
February 9, 2010, the day that Google Buzz launched, will go down in history as the date that Google crossed the line from good to evil. But not for the reasons most are citing.
Buzz critics, including yours truly, have focused primarily on… [read full post]
Think visually before launching technology products.
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
On 02/09/10, Google launched Google Buzz, http://www.google.com/buzz, its new social networking service. Shortly after launch, users revolted over privacy concerns.
I am publishing this blog piece on Sunday night over a holiday weekend because I believe that this issue is really… [read full post]
Social networking terminology #fail: connections contacts followers following friends subscribers subscriptions.
FriendFeed’s Bad UI And Worse Terminology
FriendFeed recently redesigned it’s user interface (UI). From a reading perspective, it is better. From a management perspective, it is worse.
One of the problems with social networks like Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Google Friend Connect, LinkedIn, and Plaxo is that… [read full post]
Google Reader’s new Comments feature highlights the major flaw with Google social networks: baffling user interfaces.
On 03/11/09, Google announced a new social networking feature: Google Reader Comments. Rather than trying to break this new feature, I decided to analyze what’s right and wrong about all of my favorite social networks.
Twitter is doing almost everything right. Google is doing almost… [read full post]
Posted February 25, 2009, in Security, Social Networking, Worst Practices by Erik J. Heels (permalink: http://www.erikjheels.com/1421.html)
A Twitter security flaw appears to allow one user to lock another user’s account simply by repeatedly trying to login to that account. It looks like that’s what somebody is trying to do to my Twitter account. Worse, there is nothing I can do about it, because Twitter appears to be unprepared for this (rather obvious) scenario.
Here’s the error message that I got when I tried… [read full post]
Lessons learned from suck-related registered trademarks.
Sometimes the government screws up. Like when funny license plates get issued. The Internet is full of funny.
Funny trademarks abound. When you file a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), it is examined by Trademark Examiners (who are lawyers) and (if it passes their scrutiny) then… [read full post]
Posted January 14, 2009, in Google, Security, Social Networking, Worst Practices by Erik J. Heels (permalink: http://www.erikjheels.com/1324.html)
Or tell Google to stop indexing subdomain pages.
Secure Connection Failed
explore.twitter.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for twitter.com
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
* This could be a problem with the server’s configuration, or it could be someone trying to impersonate the server.
* If you have connected to this server successfully in the past, the error may be temporary, and you… [read full post]
