I had a great e-mail from Andy Tiller at Cognima today, as part of my ongoing discussion with him over Shozu:
Hi Richard
Thought you might like to know that we plan to make the change you suggested in our next ShoZu release (due February). The Java app will then work with an ‘ask once’ policy.
Thanks for helping us clarify our thinking on this.
Best regards
Andy
It’s really great to find an IT company that is happy to listen and open to discuss their product with their customers. Whilst most people would think that was a pretty obvious idea, you’d be surprised how many times I’ve put in bug reports or feature requests and not heard a thing!
Also it was great that the positive response means that next month I’ll finally be able to give Shozu a go. A somewhat better outcome than this example given by Hugh McLeod, where although the guys at RememberTheMilk responded, ultimately they couldn’t solve this guys problem.
I have to say that the main reason I have Hugh MacLeod’s blog at Gaping Void bookmarked is for the pictures! However, he is also involved in marketing, and like Robert Scoble regularly talks about the power of the blog, in his case as a tool for marketing.
I was particularly interested in his posting about the rise of Global Microbrands, and not just for the picture (and it’s a good cartoon too….). Here he discusses how the power of the internet means that you no longer need to get stuck on the treadmill of working to keep living in the place you need to be to get to work. The internet, by giving him the means to create his own ‘Global Microbrand’ has allowed him, and others to present a global face, whilst allowing him to live where he wants to live, and be more productive in his career as well. Now even after a couple of days in the big city he is feeling stressed out. Definitely an interesting read.
Thoughts from, and the lives of a Canadian and a Brit living in the UK.