Annoyed, I unsubscribed from Groupon’s emails yesterday… not that I ever signed up for them in the first place. I took a deal on a breakfast sandwich one fateful day and Groupon thought that was an invitation to send me an daily email with New York City deals. Since that worked out so well for them, they doubled it to two emails on several days – god forbid I lose out on their Grouponicus deals. Groupon is hardly the only offending “app” out there.

Earlier this year, we added secure FTP as an option for clients to get their videos to us.  It’s not much of a change, unless your FTP client doesn’t support FTPS (FTP over SSL), which most do.

But the change reminded me of one important fact – many (most?) people are perplexed by FTP.  Quite often, they’re wondering what webpage they FTP from.

Use the apostrophe or not?  That’s one of the little debates circulating these days at Frameweld.  I’m leaning towards the apostrophe’d version because it “feels” right but some practical considerations argue for the un-contracted version.

The live captioning application lives at recapd.com since it’s not possible to work apostrophes into URLs.  No apostrophe in the logo either (pretty clear where Mykal stands on this one).  My guess is that users are more likely to search for Recapd over Recap’d, though both are tough unless someone is already familiar with the brand.  That’s a few checks in the Recapd column, so why use the ‘d?