If an affordable luxury can be considered a guilty pleasure, then mine is most definitely “Netflix”:http://www.netflix.com/. The online DVD rental system is incomparably convenient, and is truly revolutionizing movie rental.
It there’s one downfall to Netflix, it’s that it isn’t yet available in Canada (its original plan to expand to Canada and the UK in 2005 has been “postponed”:http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2004-10-17-netflix-dvd-war_x.htm). So when I was looking for a birthday gift for my brother last year, I started investigating other alternatives. After reading several positive reviews of “Zip.ca”:http://www.zip.ca/ online, I decided to buy a gift membership on the site.
From start to finish, the experience was a lesson in poor online customer service. But that paled in comparison to the defective design of the company’s ecommerce site. It seemed very little attention was paid to facilitating navigation, and its online transaction pages were deeply flawed.
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Ken Schafer has one hour to speak to the Council of Communications Directors for the ministries of the Ontario Government tomorrow morning. The topic is “The Big Six For ’06 – The Six Big Internet Trends In 2006”.
Here’s what he’ll be covering…
Here’s some breaking industry news One Degree is proud to be the first to share with the community:
Industry veteran (and One Degree contributor) Bill Sweetman has signed on to join MacLaren McCann Direct & Interactive. Bill will become the agency’s Vice President, Internet Strategy, a new position designed to take full advantage of Bill’s 14 years as a consultant in the interactive media space. Read on…