Welcome to Smuggle Me

I must admit that over the past couple days I’d read references to Redeye VC’s post about Microsoft and Yahoo employees leaving. I thought it was an interesting experiment, but like he said it wasn’t scientific at all. It definitely classified solely as the interesting test and nothing more.

Well, it turns out that the experiment turned out to be very useful, but not for its intended purpose. Instead, it teaches a cruel lesson about how various online endeavors in this connected web 2.0 world can go terribly wrong. Take a look at the unintended consequences of what happened.

We’ll have to all keep our eyes open for times when unintended consequences affect someone else on the web. It’s a feature of a connected world and there’s really no turning back in many cases. All we can do is be open and honest about what happened and then move forward.

I just went to log into Google Adsense since I’m an addict and I like to know exactly how much money I’m making. I like to follow trends and I love stats. Ok, so that’s beside the point.

The point is that when I logged into Google Adsense, it prompted me that they were going to start using Google Accounts to access Google Adsense. Then, it proceeded to let me change my Google Adsense login (which was one email address) and change it to my google account (which was another email address). Halalula, Praise the Lord!!

Now if they can just do this for my Google Analytics, Google Webmaster, Google Groups and Google Docs accounts I’ll be happy. Yes, in some of those cases Google will need to provide me with a tool to transfer the info from one Google Account to another. Please do Google. One account is enough. Plus, promise to continue using Google Accounts for all your new products and I won’t have any more problems. I’m tired of logging out of one Google Account and into the other.

While you’re at it, how about you make it easy for my wife and I to switch between Google Accounts too. I hate when she logs in and I have to just log her out. That’s all!

UPDATE: This post was completely tongue and cheek about someone who is non-technical and shouldn’t know how to do these technical things. See my comments below for further explanation on my intentions with the post.

My friend from Cambrian House decided to step into the blogging world with his blog Web Fugitive. I think he’ll actually be a really good blogger with his knowledge and writing skill. I guess time will tell.

However, his tech skills and implementation of Wordpress sucks. Sorry Web Fugitive, but there’s a reason you shouldn’t expose yourself. I’d be embarrassed to admit who I was if I’d committed so many mistakes. Here’s a few helpful hints to get you started.

1. Turn on permalinks. If you don’t know what that is, then find out. It’s easy and Google likes permalinks. Don’t be lame and link to a page with ?p=12
2. Turn comments on on all of your posts. I was about to comment on a post and comments was turned off. How lame is that. Well, I guess maybe it was a good strategy, because it motivated me to blog about you. Otherwise, I think it sucks. I bet it was just an accident, but fix it already. Comments are what makes blogs interesting.
3. Get rid of the “Uncategorized” category. Choose a topic like Web 2.0 which will encompass all your posts and then make it the default. Uncategorized just makes you look lazy and uneducated in the art of blogging. Not to mention good categorizing is liked by Google bots too.
4. I already told you this so do it already. That lame hostmonster favicon not only makes you look lame for using hostmonster, but it shows you don’t care about your website.
5. I can’t tell this for sure, but I bet you don’t even have the Wordpress stats plugin turned on and maybe not even akismet. I’d even settle for Google Analytics, but I’m confident you don’t have that. Get some stats already.

Ok, I will give you one prop. At least you have the latest version of Wordpress installed. Of course, you don’t have to listen to anything I say, but I’m sure you will since you know better than to not listen.

Welcome to blogging. It’s addicting!!