Google tried to do this: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Google_offers_to_help_Wikipedia

Respond | Cheer this | 10 days ago (May 05, 09:20PM)

Google Local lets you contribute reviews of businesses, like so: http://local.google.com/maps/user?uid=114463080584662082627&hl=en&ptab=1

When you go to the list of a user’s reviews it should be offered as an RSS feed. It isn’t.

Respond | Cheer this | 10 days ago (May 05, 09:14PM)

Last week Google released a plugin architecture for Google Spreadsheets that includes the ability to create gapminder-style charts.

Respond | Cheer this | about 1 month ago (Mar 25, 03:06PM)

I have a CapitalOne credit card. I have a user name and password with CapitalOne. I should be able to register on their web site so that I can access my credit card details with my existing user name and password. Instead, I was told by their customer service rep today that because I have a new credit card I also need to choose a new user name and password. That is annoying. Banks should strive to make their security more human, not more arbitrary.

Respond | Cheer this | about 1 month ago (Mar 25, 03:00PM)

Amazon.com has different settings a profiles and wishlists from Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk and all their other international sites. It should be the same login, the same wishlist, and just different prices (local currency) and shipping details and whatnot depending on the local site that I log into.

Respond | Cheer this | 5 months ago (Dec 03, 05:51PM)

I have paid web site hosting from the company doteasy.com. On their default 404 pages for when a document is not found on my web site, they place advertisements for their hosting service. I’ve used a lot of different web site hosts before and I’ve never seen such insidious advertisemtns from a pay host. This is the sort of thing that I’d expect from the likes of geocities, not from a company that I’m paying more than a hundred dollars a year!

2 responses | Cheer this | 6 months ago (Nov 08, 06:09PM)

Getty Images sent me an email. I didn’t want to receive email communications from them. In order to not receive further communications, I need to send them an email with ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject from the email address that they sent the email to. Lots of people like me have email from multiplate addresses forwarded to a centralized address. This means that I need to go and log into a different email account in order to respond to the message. That sucks.

Getty Images should make it easy to unsubscribe by offering a web-based means of doing so.

Respond | Cheer this | 6 months ago (Nov 08, 03:28PM)

I have been on the phone with Bell Canada’s service representatives twice today. Their customer service is handled through an Indian call centre. Fine. But both times the quality of the telephone connection to the call centre was so poor that I had difficulty hearing the person on the other end. Bell’s a phone company. They should be able to offer as clear a connection to their customer service as I can get to my neighbour!

Respond | Cheer this | 7 months ago (Sep 19, 11:52AM)

SuprGlu should allow users to rename their content sources so that they don’t have to accept the default feed names.

Respond | Cheer this | 8 months ago (Sep 09, 10:47PM)

In the same way that Wink.com aggregates RSS feeds from all of your accounts, ClaimID should aggregate all of your RSS feeds into one meta-RSS feed so that your subscribers can get a complete overview of your online activities.

Respond | Cheer this | 8 months ago (Sep 04, 09:50PM)