Faud in Hicksville. Interesting point that a lot of the recent frauds have been based out of the major financial / business centers. This makes it easier to pull the wool over people’s eyes, as there is more loyalty in the smaller cities.
Monthly Archive for June, 2002
Digital Identity World: Interview with Palladium’s Mario Juarez. What is the benefit to users to have code running on their machine that they can’t observe? What is the benefit to having keys which aren’t even accessible to a computer’s owner? [Hack the Planet]
Business Plan Archive. Got $350k to store and analyse the failed dotcom business plans. Surely the grant application was the epitome?
Clueless Mailers: The Latest Ugly Trend in Spamming. Great map of the spam industry.
EMusic. I’m almost tempted to join. I’ll have to think about it some more, but it looks like reasonable value, and there are some good names / tracks there.
Jambusters eye cellphones. Sounds like an interesting idea: track cellphones to see if they are moving or not, and locate those on major roadways. You can aggregate information to see if there are traffic jams or not.
37bettermotors by 37signals. Sorting out the motoring site.
Something is obviously working online – look at the growth in users. The question is: can you charge for it? Alternatively, you could argue that this has replaced advertisting for spend, so get used to happier customers without advertising.