Straight, No Chaser

Your website sucks. Seriously, I’m coming to your site just because I want to see a list of your phones. What’s on the front page of your site? Jargon, jargon, jargon. Stuff like “at work’ or “at home”, or “technology the rescue” are so vague that unless I have 10 minutes to be adventurous on your site, I’m not going to ever find out what they mean. Alternately, I see some promos for individual phones (the flash movie for your Moto Q crashed Firefox 1.0.6 on my iBook, btw), and I see your quick search thing, but neither help someone like me who doesn’t know what phone I am interested in yet. The usual nav bar at the top of the page looks good for corporate users, but it contains nothing about your products for consumers. Where can I see all your products? Beats me, and probably anyone else coming to your site. Luckily for you, I remembered that you also have hellomoto.com, which finally got me what I wanted. Any normal consumer, though, probably would be on Nokia.com or SonyEricsson.com by now (number of clicks to see all phones on either site after choosing region: 1).

As I lay in bed this morning, listening to NPR’s coverage of the London bombings, I couldn’t help but notice one thing about the commentaries reporters got from sources in the UK vs. sources in the US. From officials the UK, it was all shock and dismay, while as soon as they switched some senator from the US (I wish I could remember who), it was all politics, with more “OMG WAR ON TERROR OMG THREAT LEVELS OMG OMG” than actual expression of greif. Way to go.

So, I noticed a while ago that the firefox search plugin for craigslist’s for sale section was broken. I waited and waited for it to get updated, but then I took a closer look at their contribution guidelines and it says that submissions for new plugins is currently down, meaning that chances of the plugin getting updated anytime soon are pretty slim. So I took matters into my own hands and fixed the damn thing myself.

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