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By Robert Bruce on Aug 26, 2006

I happen to be selling some RSS ufo’s, got some in the trunk of my jalopey matter of fact, if Mabel and Henrietta and Graham will get up off a their lazy behinds and lend me a helping hand.

Yep, Reseach Service Syntax, your sister is correct and it, RSS, is very important for the future and everyone who plans to be in it.

I am going to post this lovely video tutorial focus group gimmick training film in my crummy little blog.

She says a blog is a “little” this or that thingamajig. Well, it is “little”, “childish” and “toyful”…unless it grows up to be a mature Multi Hyper Media blog, using podcasts, video, web conferencing, and immersive haptic effluvial embodiment transmission telepresencing.

Ask her if haptics is a cult of happy geeks who want to torture us with new tech and new skills sets to learn every 4 1/2 days.

I am lost in the equilibrium.

Web 2 point Oh No!

Hooray for your sister’s vision of the Universal Content Utopia! MSM is dead! Long Live New Social Media!

By vaspers the grate or on Aug 27, 2006

sorry about the mandatory online typo infraction affadavit

the word for RSS is Research Service Syntax

my bad

By vaspers the grate or on Aug 27, 2006

You guys are related?

By Talking Tina on Aug 27, 2006

Hehe… So awesome to see your sister answering some questions about “Web 2.0″.

Birger

By Birger Nordoelum on Aug 27, 2006

An effective tutorial on getting to really know the average user.

This is why no Beta should be released to early adaptors until a User Observation Test has been conducted, to see what users really do to accomplish tasks online.

I developed forms for such testing wherein I ask the test subject what their favorite web sites, search engines, online activity, etc. are.

By vaspers the grate or on Aug 27, 2006

vaspers, but even then you don’t get real usage. You get a better idea, but even then it’s no replacement for actually doing a beta.

I suppose the mantra of today is “get something out the door to get feedback on it” and fix it. If not, give up, try something else. Faster than everyone else.

By candice on Aug 29, 2006

Candice, I appreciate your keen interest in this and your insight.

But I am a beta tester who is disgruntled with beta versions.

“Beta” is abused by many companies. A buggy product is released “beta”, which means that they are too stupid or cheap to do User Observation Tests on a group of typical users.

This mantra you describe is based on dumbo Guy Kawasaki’s zany “Don’t Worry Be Crappy” methodology expressed in his crummy pseudo book Rules for Revolutionaries.

Guy Kawasaki preaches the fatal “ship shoddy, but ship first” marketing hucksterism that is little more than consumer fraud and false advertising.

“Beta” is released, then the early adaptors are expected to correct the bugs for free. This sucks.

It’s just another instance of the Cult of Mediocrity, and you either convert or die metaphorically speaking.

By Pluto the Planet on Aug 29, 2006

Oh, I’m not saying that it’s the RIGHT way.

I’m just saying that’s how the market works now. Alpha testing died years ago, and what’s now called a ‘beta’ is what used to be your single-customer limited beta, or the beta you offered a customer or two for a discount on the upgrade, or whatever.

Better in-house QA is something more companies need too (some of my clients included in this, I’ve got a qa girl who doesn’t break stuff well enough.)

Hell, gmail still sucks.

By candice on Aug 29, 2006

The fastest way to kill a product is to release a “Beta” version of it.

By Pluto the Planet on Aug 29, 2006

“Beta” is suicide because you’re releasing shit to the market of savvy early adaptors, and you know it’s shit, but you think you’ll be getting free usability testing from the dummies who signed up for the “Beta” crap.

So then, us beta testers grow to hate you and your product and your company, because you waste our time finding and suggesting fixes for bugs you could have easily spotted and fixed by doing your own User Observation Testing.

“Beta” means: screw the users, just gimme free usability analysis.

Now, when I spot bugs in a beta version, I just move on to a more polished freeware, never to return to the shoddy Guy Kawasaki inspired meaty ochre provider.

“First is Best” is a lie.

Were the Beatles the first rock band in the music market?

I rest my case.

By Pluto the Planet on Aug 29, 2006

In which way does the meaning of kill a product with the ending “beta”, has anything with the video of Loren’s sister?

Birger

By Birger Nordoelum on Aug 29, 2006

You guess is as good as mine, friend Birger.

Loren’s sister, according to Loren, may be used again here, in more videos. Sure hope so, she is a born actress.

My wife and I are wanting to do a similar style video, where I question her, or she questions me.

This is a really neat way to do a video. I like it a lot.

By Pluto's cousin Ralph on Aug 29, 2006

Sorry, Loren. English, as best I can: Getting into vaspers’ “usability” comments, on how to make better software that people don’t hate using and that works.

By candice on Aug 29, 2006

Candice: I don’t mean to treat you roughly here. I’m just amazed at the Cult of Mediocrity that has supported this abuse of the “beta” version methodology.

“cut costs” the CEOs say, as they bloat their compensation packages and buy new jets.

Releasing half assed betas is a symptom of a much larger problem, and why America is in rapid and irreversible decline in the global market.

It’s sad, really. Please accept my token of friendship, and forgive me if I seemed to be trying to nail you to the wall, so to speak.

By Pluto's cousin Ralph on Aug 29, 2006

Vaspers is also Pluto the Planet, and even, in rare cases, Pluto’s cousin Ralph, BTW.

By Pluto's cousin Ralph on Aug 29, 2006

Says who? Let’s get back to the topic, shall we?

Loren’s sister is terrific, and a lot better than that scraggly chick on The Blogging Times who trashed that rock wannabe Luke Brindley, editing the interview to make Luke look like the biggest loser wanker in lower Manhattan.

By V[[a=s/"p++E?rs*t\H- on Aug 29, 2006

Multiple personalities are confusing. It’s cool, though.

By candice on Aug 29, 2006

We and I and me and him and they have no iota of an idea what you mean by “multiple personalities”, candice.

One per person is bad enough, don’t you think?

By vAsPeRs the GRAte or on Aug 30, 2006