A Couple Updates

I'm trying. I really am. It's hard to keep updating a blog when you no longer have a whole lot of free time. As a Fool, I find that I have a lot less free time on my hands to devote to commenting about the marketing world. This is good. I have my hands into all sorts of exciting things over here at FoolHQ.

Meanwhile, I'm making a real effort to continue updating my Twitter account as well as continuing to share stories that I find in my daily readings through Google Reader.

So stay tuned! I have so many ideas, thoughts, and comments each day that some of them are bound to leap out of my mind and into this blog.

Thanks for continuing to read!

Apple Using Community-Created Ads

We all know that Apple has very little interest in opening up its iPhones to 3rd party developers. But the folks over in Cupertino have no problem with using a 3rd party ad for the phone -- that is, using a community-created video, which :

Why I hate Snapfish

My cousin recently got married and posted the album of wedding pictures online through a service called Snapfish. I hate this site -- it makes you register and login to view these images. Why should I have to login to view these public photos?

Alternatively, Flickr lets users upload photos, tag, and share them with a private audience or the general public. There is no need to authenticate oneself before viewing photos anymore. Snapfish should change the way it shares photos so that it's open to anyone. If an uploader wants to make his or her photos private, the site should send a unique link to each recipient.

...and that's my Friday rant.