I’ve been doing web work for over ten years, so I’m sort of jaded about new websites and online initiatives. I’m not easily impressed. It gives me great joy when I run into something truly new and novel, as I did last night.
I happened on the website www.fixoutlook.org, which is an effort to lobby Microsoft into supporting CSS and other design standards in Outlook 2010. The site essentially functions as a Twitter petition. Twitter users can sign on to the effort simply by sending out a tweet that includes the words fixoutlook.org. The site then displays all the tweets in a constantly updated wall of Twitter avatars.
The difference between good and great is always in the details, and www.fixoutlook.org gets the details right:
This is a really well done initiative. Check it out.
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