Worrying article about 2600 paranoia. It’s not really paranoia if it’s true!
On an average day in a big city, a person would be filmed by more than 300 cameras from 30 different CCTV networks.
RedHerring’s trends for 2001.
Archive for October, 2000
Nielsen believes that focus groups for websites are useless because a) most sites are trying to sell things which people don’t like and b) the prettier sites score highest in the groups.
Useful website testing tool called eValid. Can people please stop putting e in front of everything! It bugs me.
Good letter on software management for internet projects.
Disintermediation makes the intermediaries fight even harder to retain their place in the grand scheme of things.
P&G is striving to become a “dot-com-bined” company. New marketing speakery with forkedy tongue.
I’ve just found out how one of my friends manages to attract women. You know who you are!
Quote from the end of the piece:
“I was discussing you argument with my colleagues and one of them mentioned the term ‘flashturbation’ (n. The practice of using Macromedia Flash on Web sites for nothing more than demonstrating its cool “whiz-bang” features) - v. funny…”
Interesting idea: allow free online access to content, but charge for pasting, printing etc.
“Victims of burglary can post details of their stolen goods at TheBurglar.com. Burglars are then invited to anonymously contact their victims by email and negotiate a price for the return of their stolen property.”
Walmart.com is currently unavailable - I think this is the first time that a significant system upgrade (which sounds like what they’re doing) has taken down an important site for so long. Unusual not to have a phased approach, but if you’ve got the offline sales that WM has, I guess you don’t care.
Judge Rosenbaum writes:
“an idle thought jotted onto a calendar; a tasteless joke passed to a once-trusted friend, a suggestive invitation directed at an uninterested recipient, if done electronically, will last forever,” he wrote. “Years later, it can subject its author to liability.”
The suggestion is for a 6-month period during which e-mail can be used against you.
The metered internet just won’t work. Read more.
Smart agents — web crawling agents as opposed to stored preferences in
a database — have three things going against them:
- Agents’ performance degrades with network growth
- Agents ask people to do what machines are good at (waiting) and machines to do what people are good at (thinking).
- Agents make the market for information less efficient rather than more
New job, but ETP still works. Amazing stuff.
Sadly, being behind a proper corporate firewall means that I can’t use Radio Userland or any of the more groovy functions. I guess this will have to change at some stage, but it’s going to be hard to teach people about web security, etc.
I don’t know whether I’ll get to update every day, but here’s hoping.
