11 items tagged with thisisbroken

More US Bank clueless service (February 2, 2008) More harassment from US Bank.

DocStoc bizarre form layout (October 10, 2007) Some odd choices in the signup and login form at DocStoc left me frustrated.

iPhone dialing annoyances (September 9, 2007) A few annoyances with the iPhone's phone interface.

Comcast customer disservice (September 9, 2007) After reading Bob Garfield's Comcast problems I was compelled to share my own.

ThinkFree -- making it hard to sign up (December 12, 2006) Signing up for ThinkFree is a hassle.

Skype usability on OSX (September 9, 2006) Getting contact information out of Skype requires a good memory.

Wells Fargo strikes again (September 9, 2006) Wells Fargo is working really hard to lose my business.

Logitech support sucks (March 3, 2006) Logitech's customer support processes are so broken that I'm going to avoid even buying their products in the future.

Versioning web services (February 2, 2006) I'm looking for best practices in managing a public web services API.

Feedster's feeds are fixed (February 2, 2006) Feedster's new site fixes the major problems.

Feedster feeds (February 2, 2006) Feedster's core features are rotting.

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