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The following is my opinion of what you should never do when redesigning a series of successful websites (or even a single website), and is based on recent changes to the Gawker network of sites. Gawker Media, owner of popular sites like Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Jalopnik, recently began to introduce a new layout among their network [...]

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WTF Google?

Add this to my list of things Google has done to piss me off. As of July 1, 2013 Google is killing off their RSS reader. Why? I have no idea. It’s  a great, free product that does what a decent news reader should do. So why keep it when they can kill it off [...]

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The Pop-Up is Dead. Long Live the Pop-Up.

Many years ago, most web browser makers killed the ability for web pages to spawn annoying pop-up windows. You know, those irritating windows that just appeared out of nowhere without anyone asking you if you wanted to open a new window. Advertisers were the main cause of this obtrusive practice which they employed relentlessly to [...]

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Microsoft recently announced that they were dropping the Aero UI from their next version of Windows. Add to this the fact that Windows 8 seems squarely targeted at tablets over desktops and laptops with its Metro UI, and that Windows 7, a worthy successor to Windows XP (suck it Vista), is still what I would [...]

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(In no particular order) Stopped support and development of their toolbar for Firefox Maybe it’s the cynic in me, but I have to believe that this was done to get more people to switch to Chrome. I mean why else would they do this? The only public mention of this by Google says that Firefox [...]

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