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Things that annoy me on the Internet
I use the Internet. A lot. Although it is a great tool, there are some things which annoys the heck out of me.
- Telkom. OK, I think this applies to all South African Internet users. Slow internet, overseas pages that won’t load, connection going down randomly, high prices, etc etc drives me crazy.
- Autoplaying videos. I hate it when I open up a website (not something like YouTube) with an embedded video which starts playing automatically, especially if I have to scroll down to see it. With high bandwidth costs and the above mentioned slow internet, this makes it worse.
- Flash Ads. I understand the importance of ads on websites, as many sites won’t be able to operate without them. However, I dispise flash ads which makes noises when I move the mouse over them, or which expands out of the ad’s container, or anything like that. Plus it chews up even more valuable bandwidth.
- Poorly written websites. It is incredible that so many companies seems to neglect their websites. Good (bad?) examples of these types of sites are Telkom’s online billing site, ananzi.co.za (the 90′s called, they want their animated GIF’s back) and computicket.za (this site seems horribly outdated). The situation is improving, but way too slowly i my opinion.
- Get rich quick schemes. Come on people, how stupid do you think I am?!? The only way to make money is either being extremely lucky or working hard. There’s no way I can make millions every month by submitting ads to Google, or capturing data, or something like that. Of course, in order to start “working” in this industry one has to buy an “information pack”, usually costing anything from $5 to $500. It’s actually really sad that some people are so desperate to make money that they fall for these scams.
- Having to sign up to use sites. I wish everyone would just start using OpenID or something. I hate filling in my details every time, and having to remember yet another username and password.
These are my major gripes with an otherwise awesome experience. What’s yours?
Facebook OpenID goes live!
Posted by Johann in Internet, Technology on May 19th, 2009
This is what I’ve been waiting for for a long time. From now on, we will be able to sign into any website which supports OpenID with our Facebook accounts. I simply love the concept of OpenID, and have been using it for some time now by signing in with my Google account at any site which supports the standard. Of course, with virtually everyone and their dog using Facebook, this will become a much more widely used function of websites (not many sites supported it before because very few people have OpenID compatible accounts). We should see OpenID spread like wildfire from now on, as it will drastically increase the conversion rate from site visitors to actual members. It’s much simpler to just click “Login with my Facebook account details”, rather than filling out another form and picking another password.
More information on Facebook’s blog: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=246
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