Linked List: November 16, 2014

Sunday, 16 November 2014

Igloo 

My thanks to Igloo for once again sponsoring last week’s DF RSS feed. Most “intranets” suck. They’re ugly, badly designed, and people wind up avoiding them by just emailing file attachments back and forth.

Igloo bills itself as “an intranet you’ll actually like”. I’d say they’re the intranet that doesn’t suck. You get all sorts of cool features, like Twitter-like microblogs, file sharing, comments on everything, and the design can match your brand across all devices. It’s easy to use, and easy to setup, with no technical expertise required.

Still need convincing? They even have a Sandwich video. Amazingly, Igloo is free to use for up to 10 people. Try it for free and see for yourself.

Wholesale Phone Company 

[Update: The site has been taken offline, but there’s a cached version hosted at Fireballed.org, which includes all the good stuff. It’s just missing an image or two.]

I tweeted this yesterday, and still can’t stop laughing about it. It’s a counterfeit iPhone 6 being for $250. So many gems on this web page:

This phone is the same as the Apple iPhone 6 without the Apple logo on the back of the phone or the iPhone 6 text on the white box (sometimes the phone comes with an Apple like logo). The internals of this phone are the same as the Apple iPhone 6.

And:

Do NOT pay $600, $700 or even $800 for the same phone.

The quality, finish & performance of this phone is the same as the Apple iPhone 6.

From the specs list:

  • Video recording: Yes
  • E-book format: Excel, PPT, Word
  • Screen resolution: 854 × 480 pixels
  • Gravity Sensing System

Who hasn’t enjoyed reading a good .xls novel? But it gets better: they embed an unboxing video from someone who specifically emphasizes in the video just how bad the performance of the phone is. The people selling this phone chose to embed that.

I think my favorite thing, though, is the photograph of a warehouse at the very bottom of the page. (Ripped-off, of course.) There are no words to accompany it, but the implication is that this enormous, airy, well-lit, clean warehouse is where they’re selling these phones from. Convincing!

I’m half-tempted to buy one of these on a lark.