Roundabout Searching
When you are researching a product or service to integrate into a web site, it is often difficult (and time consuming) to find out about how solid a product or service might be. You can search for “product name here” reviews or “product name here” feedback, but you can’t be sure that you are finding an unbiased voice. The web allows a 12 year old programmer to appear as substantial as a 50 person company that has been around for 20 years.
Instead of doing the ‘reviews’ search, try something different. You can locate leading resources and solutions in roundabout ways.
For example: When trying to figure out what shopping cart solutions are solid and will likely be around for a while, search for payment integration guides. The Paypal integration guide will provide a list of shopping cart providers that are probably fairly solid. https://www.paypal.com/en_US
Think a little outside of the box when looking for reviews.
Keywords to remember
- integration
- installation
- guide
- fact sheet
- manual
Searching this way can lead you down interesting paths.
Chuck on NBC
If you enjoy technology, spy movies (sort of), and movies like the 40 year old virgin, you will probably like “Chuck” on NBC. My hope is that it doesn’t start playing too much to the less tech crowd (geek) as networks often do. It is great for a laugh on Monday nights.
Mac… a Left Handed, Right Brained PC
Did anyone else notice the recent Apple (APPL) commercial that displayed the monitors for the new iMac and finished with a keyboard and mouse in front of the unit. Very sleek.
Did you also notice that the mouse was on the left hand side? Think different, you right brained folks.