PKB

I’m a case study for vendor lock-in and switching costs.

I still use Yahoo! Mail - six years and counting - even though I’ve got at least three Gmail accounts. (I use Gmail just for newsgroup posting. There’s also this nagging feeling I get about being logged into the mother ship while searching, but that’s another story.) I tried the Yahoo! Mail beta a bunch of times, but always came back to the old school version because it felt way faster on my G4.

I also still use Bloglines, even though all the cool kids moved over to Google Reader an eternity ago. I’m just used to it, and it gets the job of plowing through feeds done.

But I have to admit loving the shiny.

Thanks to some fine design hacking by Jon Hicks, part of the original Firefox visual identity team, I am enjoying a much prettier Bloglines tonight. (Ironically I found the Bloglines skin at a post Jon wrote about skinning Google Reader.)

To wit:

Before

After. Yeah baby.

So thanks Jon. You made a design geek very happy.