My Wet Coast Life

So i made the Foamy the Squirrel iGoogle theme and posted it on the Foamy the Squirrel Fan page on Facebook to both let fans know and get some feedback, only for Jon Mathers, the creator of Foamy, to delete my discussion posts. But unfortunately for Jon, the discussion is still there and other people are liking the theme so it just makes him look bad as they are cached and you can still see my posts with the word deleted below it...

Theme in question:

The whole way through the design and upload process, i emailed Jon and got no response. I posted the discussion only for him to delete them and not once has he contacted me, posted on my wall or even sent me a hate mail of "remove it or i'll sue!" or something along those lines...

No, Jon acts like a shy, indirect bitch and just deletes my posts even when there is only positive feedback. WHY? Even on the iGoogle page, i gave him full credit and linked to both his site and youtube page and even linking to his site again here.

Jon, this is marketing 101. This is free advertising for you, didn't cost you money or time to create, it creates additional exposure on a major site and increases the chance of someone going to his site and purchasing something or becoming another fan and most people/companies are not against this type of free marketing. The theme is not offensive IMO or portray his characters in a way to be detrimental instead of beneficial. And if Jon didn't like it, doesn't take to much effort to let me know to remove it. Instead of clicking "delete post", with the following 3 steps, Jon could have achieved the same effect with a bit more professionalism:

1. Type letter "N"
2. Followed by letter "O"
3. Click "Post"

Now was that so hard?

What does that say to your fan base Jon???

Definition of Fan: a person devoted to a particular hobby or pastime

Do you not want people showing support for Foamy?

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My 4th theme has finally been published by iGoogle and i thought i would showcase them here because you'll have a very hard time hunting for them due to iGoogle's newest theme category is done broke and until recently fixed, had the inability to find theme when searching...even by the theme's name

What? Did I just say Google is broken? Well, sort of...
Google provides iGoogle which is a way to customize your own Google homepage with a bunch of gadgets. These can range from news and sports, to quotes and weather. If your a programmer with basic XML knowledge (or you can even use a tool), you can make your own theme. You can even make it so the theme changes based on time of day and/or day of the week.

For the last couple months, the Newest iGoogle themes category has been broken and not showing new themes (but i doubt those theme submitted will be complaining). Then you couldn't search for your theme unless you knew one or two magical words in your description because anything else would yield no results. It could have been the word "is", "the", etc... but use something actually related and buried in pages upon pages of results. The search issue was only recently fixed but the newest category issue still exists.

I find this funny that one of, if not the, world's biggest search engine's own search and services is broken, or at least a service is broken and for so long. The group setup for iGoogle Themes tends to not really get a response and lately just gets more spam than help (You'd think Google with all there power would have developed better spam protection for its users forums and groups. Just saying...) And in the end, if you do get a response, it tends to be you getting pointed to the iGoogle section of the Web Search Help Forum at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search?hl=en where it is more likely to be seen by someone at Google. *sigh*

Are you affected by the iGoogle newest theme category fail?

Luckily, submissions are still working but take about 4-6 weeks to show up. Drawback is, you don't know when it is added (hey Google, why not notify us, you have our email in the XML??) and there are a lot of themes in iGoogle and with the Newest sections broken, no one will even find it unless they were searching and happen to match something in your description.

Well, now that that is out of the way, on to my 4 themes...

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