Changes to Our Alarm Clock

Hey Clock Fans, now that the Alarm Clock Blog here has been up and running for about a year and a half, we’ve been thinking that it’s high time that we go ahead and describe to all of you what our original idea for this blog really was – because the original idea is definitely a bit different than how it turned out to be.

As you all know by now, we run the world’s original Online Alarm Clock website.

It’s customary for software companies and web applications to create a blog, which will then be used as a vehicle for communicating everything that’s new and improved with their software or web service.

In our case, we’re confident that we’ve pretty much hit upon perfection with the design of our Alarm Clock. We’re sorry if this sounds arrogant or like we’re bragging, but this is really the truth.

It was our goal to create the world’s first Alarm Clock you can use right in your web browser, without downloading or installing anything, and of course we’ve done just this…we went live with our Alarm Clock Website back on March 24th in 2006.

If you ever discover some other Online Alarm Clock website, go to whois.domaintools.com and check the age of their domain. Then go to archive.org and try to see just how long they’ve been online…

Our point with all of this is simply to state the fact that people are copycats. And sure, it’s not a huge problem – “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, as they say. But we do like to remind you occasionally that OnlineClock.net is in fact the original site of this kind.

Not only were we the first website designed to be an Alarm Clock, but we’re also the best…even to this day, several years later.

Why?

It’s because our Clocks are minimally designed with simplicity in mind.

We all know about the meteoric rise of Twitter.com, and Twitter has become a star with very good reason: it’s a great, simply-designed website that’s astonishingly easy to use. Just last week we were looking at the computer books in a local bookstore and saw books that claimed to show you “How to Use Twitter”. The reason why this is so hilarious is: Twitter is so easy, no one really needs a book about how to use it!

Similarly, we also believe it’d be ridiculous to have a “How To” guide on how to use our Alarm Clock.

If you look at our start page, you won’t find any explanatory text there – our clock is so self-explanatory, that even your grandmother will figure it out instantly.

We like this. And we’re devoted to keeping our site this way.

Which takes us back to the theme of this blog post: what we’d originally conceived our Alarm Clock Blog to be like.

You see, while all these other software and web 2.0 companies’ blogs write about the “killer new features” they keep adding to their sites…we just wanted to post this same message once a day: