Day Seven: Never thought this would happen
Google apologized!!
We take pride in moving quickly, and we think this philosophy helps to create lots of new and innovative products. But it also leads to errors that -- upon reflection and your feedback -- we need to rectify. This was one of them. We make mistakes; we do our best not to repeat them -- and we really do try to fix the ones we make. That said, the very least that our users should expect from us is that our mistakes be new and innovative, too. ;)
Customers not happy with Facebook's Open Doors Closed Policy (we should learn from this, open up, no closed platforms)
For those of us that use normal email for our day to day business, getting Facebook messages is more of a problem than a feature. That's because Facebook makes you log on to the site to read messages/emails from your friends. They'll send a note to your normal email address when a new message comes in, but they make you log on to Facebook to actually read it. I rarely do that, and have missed some important messages from people trying to contact me. As a next step, I think Facebook should offer to forward the actual messages to an outside email address (and/or provide a password protected RSS feed). Eventually Facebook should offer full POP or IMAP support for their email. They can still restrict it so that you can only receive messages from friends, but at least you could access it from your desktop or web based mail application.
Thank you for your comments in email, but now, thanks to Andy and Yosi, the comments on the blog are enabled, so comment freely. You asked me how the coops would look like, well this was my original idea for people setting up a virtual company. What do you think?
How do I set up Me Inc. in 15 easy steps?
1. What will be the name http://www.domainsbot.com/
2. Write the 1-Pager containing:
• Launching date
• Ownership
• Mission
• Vision
• Contact
3. Make a preliminary spreadsheet of the first two years (P/L) and see how much money you must lend from F3 (Fools, Friends and Family) not to have to worry about cash flow
4. Write the contents for a website and
• register a domain name www.pajamadomains.com
5. Choose a logo and house style (business cards, stationery, email signature) www.pajamaproducts.com
6. Find a template for your website www.pajamaproducts.com
• find a host provider www.pajamahosting.com
• add some digital pictures www.istockphoto.com
• introduce payment software www.paypal.com
• Keep the statistics to adjust what you offer www.google.com/analytics
7. Open a bank account (online or offline)
8. Find an accountant online to provide you quarterly with three statements (P/L, cash flow, balance sheet) and make him do the tax formalities www.pajamaproducts.com
9. Find a lawyer for a cheap lawyer on monthly subscription www.worldlawdirect.com
10. Create your tiger team and divide the labour
• secretary www.pajamanation.com/cybersecretaries per hour
• Translators www.pajamanation.com/translators
• Credit Collection www.pajamanation.com/creditcollection
• IT remote help www.pajamanation.com/ITremote
11. Select your marketing mix:
• lead generation www.pajamanation.com/leadgeneration
• Internet Marketing
12. Collect your Business docs and contracts library www.worldlawdirect.com
13. Build up your confidence with some merchandising (cap, T-shirt, mug) www.cafepress.com or www.zazzle.com
14. Lend money from the community www.paltrust.com
15. Become a member of www.linkedin.com and www.facebook.com Pajamanation Groups
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Great to have this comment box opened. Thought the comment feature was disabled purposely.
But, hmm, isn't this a bit too 'opened' now, on things that we haven't even begin to work on?
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