When they say... | then they mean... |
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“We’re out of Beta today” | “Please, mainstream news, cover us once more!” |
“More features are coming up” | “Sorry, we don’t have any features yet” |
“We’re still in stealth mode, but you can sign up for an exclusive Alpha-tester invite” | “We’re figuring out what to do with this domain name, but it was too expensive to just let go.” |
“Please wait while loading” | “We don’t have budget for more servers” |
“We use semantic clustering to enhance results relevancy” | “Our results are taken from another search engine, but will anyone buy us? Please?” |
“Due to a temporary server malconfiguration, we’d like to ask you to change your password.” | “Who the hell posted those credit card numbers to a newsgroup?” |
“Our site uses the latest Web 2.0 features” | “We solved an easy problem but added gradient colors... blogosphere, link away!” |
“According to internal usability studies ...” | “The guy in the hall said ...” |
“Web 3.0 is ...” | “I came too late to the Web 2.0 party, but not this time!” |
“Our applications use AJAX for faster results” | “The boss suggested to add a clock to the page so now your back button is broken” |
“We’ve been acquired, but nothing will change for you, the user.” | “Off to the Bahamas, sucker!” |
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