High five for Neotel. Cos the whole “international first double winner” thing is, well, bullshit.
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It’s the first 5-day working week in South Africa the People’s Republic of Jacob Zuma for a long time, so to help split up the week, here are a handful of time wasters I’ve been collecting over the past weeks:
- View some of cinema’s most dramatic typing scenes.
- Download the MP3 and listen to Bat For Lashes’ cover of Kings of Leon – Use Somebody. [via]
- Play Kings Quest / Police Quest / Space Quest or Leisure Suit Larry online at Sarien.net. Very cool.
- Create hailstorms that destroy buildings, planes and more in the super-addictive online game, Effing Hail. [via]
- Check out some of South Africa’s best and worst ads.
- Read 1001 rules for my unborn son. Hugely inspirational and very insightful. I can’t get enough of it. Some of my favourites:
“14. Men with facial hair have something to hide.”
“344. When building a fire, choose deadwood from a tree, not off the ground.”
“354. Experience the serenity of traveling alone.”
“59. Socks are not necessary in the summer, no matter how formal the occasion.”
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Here’s Jared Spool’s story in which he tells how a single change to a site’s shopping cart checkout process from a forced registration to an optional registration increased the site’s annual revenues by $300 Million!
As one of the “test customers” says in the article. “I’m not here to be in a relationship. I just want to buy something.”
Yes, sometimes you simply do not need the 6 step registration, newsletter and community feel. Avoid the hype and get the job done.
I think a lot of South African sites can learn something from that statement. (Nice work, springleap!)
Related articles:
- Are You Guilty of Crimes Against Usability? Let the Jury Decide (searchengineguide.com)
- Is your website like a leaky bucket? (andybudd.com)
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