Crappy Graphs!

Yesterday, I posted a new Crappy Graph that I thought would make for a cool T-shirt. I was surprised at the number of responses I got from people saying that they wanted to buy it.

I decided I would try this out. Today, I set up a free CafePress account and uploaded two designs: The most-requested Time-Wasting graph and a spoof of the Crappy Graphs header that reads “Crappy Shirt!”.

Announcing Crappy Graphs! Apparel!

Crappy Graphs! store: http://cafepress.com/crappygraphs

If these shirts sell, I will buy a premium account to provide more clothing options and upload more designs.

[Rocketboom‘d!]

What about you?

UPDATE: You asked for it…

In the movie, Mission: Impossible II, Tom Cruise was faced with the task of stopping the spread of the deadly Chimera virus. Most viral ads from Fortune 500 companies face the same fate as Chimera, but without super-spy opposition. Instead of being done in by secret agents, they tend to be designed to fail all on their own. It is all part of the difficult transition marketing directors face when trying to leave traditional techniques behind and adopt the new media model.

Until the training wheels are removed, we can not do much more than sit back and count the flops.

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Unless you are willing to sacrifice a lot of time to make an application flexible AND secure, you will have to choose one or the other. In this example, I compare Myspace profiles and Facebook profiles.

Myspace offers very much flexibility for users on their personal profiles. Unfortunately, they chose to allow users to embed HTML code, which opened the door for countless security violations. They saved development time at the expense of security.

On the other hand, Facebook left users with fewer options for their profiles. Therefore, they insured security, but saved development time at the expense of flexibility.

Fast-forward a couple of years to Facebook’s release of their application platform. This time around, they sacrificed development time for a combination of flexibility and security.