Boris Akunin from Wikipedia. Just read the first one and it’s very good. So why did they translate the first and then the third of his books and not the second yet?
Monthly Archive for July, 2004
Good Experience looks a the end of mainstream advertising for certain companies. As an example, Amazon does very little advertising, but spends the amount it might have to on advertising on continually extending the customer experience and value they deliver. As the article says: why spend millions drumming up traffic for your website and then produce a woeful customer experience?
It’s bad news for component and chip manufacturers because convergence is happening around cell phones, and they’re mostly given away. This isn’t the case for the iPod, for example, but must be true for simple digital cameras and mp3 players.
Throwing Tables Out the Window shows that Microsoft could reduce its bandwidth costs by 329 Terabytes per year by using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)-based layout. Amazing.
Carrier pigeons tend to use man-made structures to navigate. Must have been much easier with Roman roads, no?
Loads of great stuff about the visual representation of project tasks in Tufte’s forum. There are also some very useful project management tools and downloads available from Phil Wolff, and a PM class from Columbia university.
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales has some BHAGs for Wikipedia:
It is my intention to get a copy of Wikipedia to every single person on the planet in their own language. It is my intention that free textbooks from our wikibooks project will be used to revolutionize education in developing countries by radically cutting the cost of content.
Time looks at companies using internal markets to generate forecasts. The title is a bit misleading – by no means is it the end of management or hierarchies. It’s along the same lines as the Pentagon’s proposed trading market in terrorism. I like the idea a lot. You need quite a few people to make it work effectively, so not much use for me.
Registered Call is an interesting idea. Simple recording of any telephone call you make with web retrieval of the call. One to help deal with the occasional call centre uppitiness.