PicMonkey. It's... so much fun.

04/17/2012

 
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I love PicMonkey. Love it love it. I was very fond of Picnik, which is closing in a couple of days -- PicMonkey was started by a few of the Picnik engineers. It has the same cool factor, but it's a little different.

Why is this great? Because it's a satisfying and easy way to manipulate your photos. 

I had opened another, similar, app today (which I won't name) and it looked... hard. Hard to learn and hard to use. I closed it. Fast.

Consumers want easy and they want fun. Products that provide this do well -- those that don't, dont.
 

Advertising stalkers annoying? Fight back - here's how

04/01/2012

 
http://www.thefilterbubble.com/10-things-you-can-do  -- This is a great article on how to prevent those stalkerish follow-me ads that tend to crop up whenever you hit an eCommerce site with a particularly aggressive advertising strategy. I used this at my last company thanks to recommendations from our fabulous agency -- but I realized it would only "work" for a short time, before consumers just plain got fed up. I hit my tipping point this week, when one company's ads started taking over every damn Web page I hit. Enough!


Here's the How-To for specific browsers:
And fortunately, "there's an app for that" -- yes, indeedy.