That dog food doesn’t taste so good now, does it? Huh?
March 23rd, 2002
After years of making its users eat the Alpo called AOL Mail, AOL TimeWarner gave its employees a mouthful of its own meaty chunks. But trying to standardize 82,000 AOL TimeWarner employees on AOL mail backfired. [link via 37 Signals]
Duh. Who would have thought that a dumb-downed email interface aimed at your grandma and people who are scared to click the right mouse button for fear of blowing up the monitor and a filtering system meant to keep kids from sharing bootleg copies of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones via email would work for corporate email? One size does not fit all. If I gave out awards for dumb-ass stuff, this would get one.