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Entries for Wednesday, February 15, 2006

February 15, 2006

Overstock.com Actually Understocked, Manned by Soulless Robots

This is what happens when your webchat Bangalore-based customer “service” “agents” (who, let’s face it, aren’t of a sufficient quality to talk to humans on the phone) are given a set of pre-canned double-clickable responses — Unhappy customers get an experience worse than Eliza.

Simple group chat for business: Campfire

37signals’s new site — an AJAXy chat tool. No installation necessary, more usable than IRC, and less susceptible to shonky firewalls than instant messaging, but I’m not sure I’m comfortable with 37signals hosting transcripts of business conversations & files.

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Google Jobs - Software Engineer - Boston

I knew Google had an ad sales office in Boston, but it looks like they’re now hiring techies here too. Is a Beantown Googleplex on the cards?

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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.