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Take 20 minutes and at least redo your logo and key images.
Here's my take on how (short-form of author's post): http://telecuda.tumblr.com/post/26032269612/optimize-blurry-...
Does this mean if the customer has an AT&T iPhone (for example) you can receive copies of SMS sent to their handset via the API, or is it still the case that you need a new virtual/tropo number or port your number away from the device?
We developed a location service that met all of AT&T's and CTIA's consent guidelines yet they were the one carrier to reject the app - and without good reason.
It's actually quite difficult in most industries to Google someone's email address, and if there's no profile/background attached to a simple Gmail like there is in LinkedIn, your message gets dumped that much faster.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151391609962845
Released this concept today as sort of a "Your Life in Review" for children and grandchildren to follow your life story through Facebook.
By marking posts as Legacies, your favorite memories would be shared with family for generations. Imagine receiving a photo today from your grandparents, taken when they were exactly your age. The idea here is about preserving and repeating important life moments rather than letting them disappear down the Timeline - or worse, limiting their view to just your current list of friends after death.
As a side effect, by tagging a post as a Legacy, you're in effect scheduling it as an event to repost to ancestors in the future who would be seeing it for the first time. With millions of these updates scheduled for the future, Facebook would have a stronger outlook for the long-term and greater odds of future generations coming on as users.
It's really not that much of an annoyance because it goes away quickly, but you do think they would have corrected it.
To protect my MBP, I rock this classic black briefcase, which fits the laptop and cables perfectly: http://refer.ly/agTA
Idea #1: Picture there being two WiFi networks on a plane: Internet Access and iMessage. Connect to iMessage from your iPhone/iPad, let Apple charge your iTunes account if necessary, then conveniently text from your phone. Great for the low-bandwidth situation they're limited by. [yes, you could pay using GoGo etc from your mobile phone and do this, but few know about it and the UX stinks]
Idea #2: Flight trackers as a landing page are nice, but get companies to pay a buck or two to put their product or commercial on your connection page to further subsidize the cost. Picture even a Google/Facebook ad model where you could target your ad to the person's demographic based on their gender and DOB from their frequent flier number.
Idea #3: For the love of God please do a better job throttling and/or blocking bandwidth hogs until the tech is better. Some guy sitting next to me trying to synch 20GB on Dropbox just doesn't seem good for the rest of the plane while my Southwest connection is too slow to load Gmail.
Southwest goes above and beyond the industry norm for making air travel painless (I fly them every week) and they have the right to keeping people from gaming the system.
The best solution I've found is to set your calendar reminder for 24hrs before your flight, with the confirmation number in the "Where" field, then quick copy/paste into their smartphone app. Takes two seconds and always gets you on the A-List. If that's too much work for you, pay them $10 for Early Bird.
This guy will make it more painful for the rest of us when they add CAPTCHAs.
Better funded departments are starting to test them out, but the demand from local police still isn't quite there. They require obtaining a special FAA license and lots of training, which makes the sales cycles on drones long and unattractive to vendors selling one at a time to local PDs.
Still though, their pitch is: "A helicopter flight cost is $450/hr. A drone is $14." Saving PDs the cost of flying a drone to/over an accident scene is more the draw than snooping into buildings.
For the same reason they use cell phones which are easily monitored - it's how the bad guys you're dealing with are already accustomed to communicating.
You have to get pretty high up on the chain before encountering a criminal who's taking any real steps at counter-surveillance.
However, an issue for the FBI is that while the big telcos have back doors in place, companies like Tango, Text+, etc do not, making it a pain in the ass to monitor/identify those criminals who at least take that step to duck law enforcement.
"Hey CEO, your site doesn't hash passwords. Here's why it's bad. Here's how it got other companies in hot water. Here's how simple it is to fix. Forward this to your tech guy. Oh, and until you do, we'll put your company on this wall of shame."
Every time I receive a welcome email showing my password in plain-text, I'd gladly spend 5 minutes finding the email of an exec, or simply sending the link to support. Why? If the service is valuable to me, it's probably worth 5 minutes to protect my account and others'.
Would pair up with someone here if you want to knock it out.
But seriously, Twilio does a great job with swag, and everyone should steal how they bundle and label their shirts - http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4056/4598843343_07d33b5182_z.j...
The same idea works well for us with http://mysite.com/team pointing to a TeamViewer session.