This is yet another post on why paying attention to the small things is important to a lot of users, not just me.

I’m new to Plurk. I’ve only just started using it in the past couple of months and I love it. I love how much more dynamic it is than Twitter. Although the replies interface at Plurk is still a little clunky. Overall Plurk is doing it right. The other day I signed on to Plurk and they were undergoing some routine maintenance and I was greeted to this message by the awesome little Plurk Creatures. Needless to say this made my night. Dare I say that page was cute. It made me want to buy all those Plurk Creatures as either vinyl or plush toys (hint hint).

Anyways, they are a prime example of what I mean when I say “pay attention to the small stuff”. They could have put up a simple message but instead chose to take their branding all the way through to their messages of maintenance. This is a win in my book and yet another example for companies who find themselves poorly executing the easy stuff.

I’ve got pet peeves. For me it’s the attention to detail that’s important. For companies that I love and support this peeve is even worse. I think me holding a company to that I blog about and support to a higher standard is essential. It’s often these little things that will make me lose faith in a company and their product.

One such company that is pressing my pet peeve button right now is Lijit. Let me preface this by saying that I love Lijit and won’t ever stop using them so there’s really no worry there. So what’s the problem then? Remember when I said little things? Well yeah, this is really little.

I’ve confirmed my integration with Facebook at least 10 times if not more at this point. I’m not doing it again. I tweeted about it the other day and got this response, I think I responded with “meh, not a big deal”. Which is right. It’s not a huge deal. But I’m quite sure I wouldn’t be tweeting about it if I wasn’t having an issue. Now, it could be a Facebook thing or a Lijit thing. I’m not sure as I’m not privvy to what goes on in the backend and that’s ok. I’ve even closed the box and it still reappears. Should I just take away my Facebook account from my networks in my Lijit account? I feel like I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place here. Why? Because Lijit is about your network and search and removing a piece from my network might inhibit things a bit.

The Lijit folks have bent over backwards for us at Battlemouth and I don’t want to count that out at all. It’s something the staff over there won’t ever forget and without Lijit we’d be far less popular than we are I am sure. We credit some of our success to Lijit, that’s for sure. My only gripe is their support. It’s definitely not as in depth and punctual as Intense Debate’s is and I’d encourage them to read my post here.

Needless to say I still love the Lijit-ers and won’t stop using their product. Like I said it’s a pet peeve of mine to be bugged by the little things and this is one of those things.

I’ve been able to meet a lot of great people of all walks of life and many of them I wanted to be able to share with the world. Enter The Fives. The Fives is project to help us all see that there is more to a person than just their appearance. No this isn’t just for geeks and tech junkies. It’s for everyone. You could be walking down the street and stop someone and ask them these 5 canned questions and go from there. I’ve been super excited about this project ever since I first heard about it and am stoked to be able to be a part of it.

Have skype?
Have ichat?
Have a webcam?

Then I definately think we should talk!

Feel free to comment here and I’ll be in touch ASAP!