by Tom | May 31, 2000 | General
Gnutella goes mainstream? CNET: Napster-like technology takes Web search to new levelWhew – this is almost more than the profits all the eCommerce companies make! Biggest Waste of Money Online? Hint: It’s Not AdsAn incredible article about the state of...
by Tom | May 22, 2000 | General
This is a great article about setting up your own usability study.Just the sort of thing to take up an unproductive Thursday. Link
by Tom | May 7, 2000 | General
Good article about the questions to ask re:Choosing the Right Design Partner. Can you answer them all?Interesting interview with Jeff Bezos of Amazon. “We Sell Dollar Bills for $1.20.” So are they ripping us off?So now we know – we’re beeing...
by Tom | Apr 14, 2000 | General
It’s official: Netscape engineers are weenies. Microsoft put a deliberate security hole in FrontPage 1998. Whoops.A Guardian interview with Nielsen and Norman (among others) has this quote: “Controllable, predictable, comprehensible, that’s my...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2000 | General
Dave Winer isn’t convinced by Autonomy either: “I was impressed (not) with the list of links they came up with for that story.”An interesting article in Business 2.0: “The consumer now has control of digital content, empowered with these...
by Tom | Mar 31, 2000 | General
Could you have a snowball fight on Mars? Sure you can, just not with snow..A great article on setting up sensible software schedules. I think this probably goes for all sorts of processes, not just in IT. Maybe I’ll try it!
by Tom | Mar 24, 2000 | General
The title is still relevant…While we were away on holiday we had our floor done, and there are some natty pictures of the work in progress. Cheers to Todd at Fab Floors for a fantastic job.Here are some of my favourites:The building site...
by Tom | Mar 21, 2000 | General
“The Web has turned the world upside down and inside out. When paradox becomes paradigm, worst practices work best.” From a great article about the effect the web is having on marketing.
by Tom | Mar 7, 2000 | General
MacEdition : Soup Says!: “The King decreed “To every cow its calf, to every book its copy”, and fined St. Columba 40 head of cattle for making an unauthorized copy. Here’s the deal, though: Finnean of Clonard didn’t write the psalter in...
by Tom | Feb 29, 2000 | General
ICANN Launches Site for New Membership: good for geeks. One of the most important pieces of internet plumbing is the Domain Name System (DNS). It’s this that allows tankertown.editthispage.com to be translated to the numbers that computers love so much....
