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Dave Williams runs a get rich quick using Google scheme at a site called Dave Gets Green where he sells some sort of secret something or other. It's hard to tell for sure.

Regardless, here's a little trick Dave Williams uses to lie to visitors to his website. Notice that Dave Williams says he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota in his bio:

One item people complain about Windows Vista is the need to run programs as an Administrator. Elevating your privileges is easy although it can confuse some people when it comes to the Vista command prompt or cmd.exe. This need happens when people run into installation problems or get the infamous internal error 2739.

CitySearch appears to be unique in their ability to review restaurants that don't actually exist.

Maintaining a national restaurant directory must be no easy task considering how many restaurants open and close every year in the United States. The churn leads to challenges.

In other cases, the data is just bad. Not out of date, but never right in the first place.

So, how do you deal with this?

1. Proactively look for problems in your data set.

2. Make it easy to for visitors to flag bad data.

Social Media Consultant, Matthew Chamberlin @mchamberlin sent out a tweet yesterday that piqued my interest. In it, he scolds Senator Claire McCaskill about her use of Twitter on behalf of the Twitterverse:

One of the scariest ordeals laptop owners encounter is a lost or stolen computer. It’s one of those scenarios that once you peel away one layer, the potential for bigger problems appears.

There are many reasons why a site can't be entirely mobile friendly, but it sure would be nice if sites were at least partially mobile. For example, here's what the Baby Bjorn website looks like from my Treo:

If I had to choose one theme of Twitter messages as my least favorite, it would be messages that provide no context to me as a reader. They're generally messages that are relevant to the sender and only one of the sender's followers yet were sent publicly rather than as a direct tweet (or any of the many other forms of communication available for 2-way communication).

Here are three examples:

@reply Thank you.
@reply Agreed.
@reply Indeed.

The messages are positive. However, they're also irrelevant to almost all of the sender's followers.

I recently found myself in the market for a new point & shoot digital camera after putting my last one through the wash. It turns out that cameras don't need to be laundered.

I'm a huge fan of Canon's Powershot point & shoots. Especially the ones with wide angle lenses because they're great for indoor shots, food photography, and self-portraits. The image stabilization makes it possible to get away without using a flash a much longer exposures. Awesome. So, I researched the latest model from Canon and quickly figured out that it's the SD880IS.

Here's an idea for online branding through banner ads.

Pretty much everyone using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace is sick of ads for dating services, credit score analysis, and weight loss services. Those industries seems to be the only three that do anything with the vast supplies of remnant impressions available on sites these days.

Let me tell you that I love Google Notebook and I am a moderately heavy user. I use it from brainstorming to taking note and storing them there. I use it when I want it and often times export it to Word documents. With Google recent decision to stop development on Google Notebook, I was a bit disappointed but it's time for me to move on and find/create another system that works for me.