The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs
Attn: Entrepeneurs
Everyone knows that if you are going to operate a business in today’s world you need a domain name. It is advisable to look at the domain name selected as other see it and not just as you think it looks. Failure to do this may result […]
In February 2005, Google, Yahoo, and Time Warner. were sued by Lane’s Gifts & Collectibles in a class-action lawsuit over click fraud. The company alleged that Google and the other companies had been improperly billing for pay-per-click ads that were not viewed by legitimate potential customers. The case was settled earlier this year and as […]
I’m recovering from the WebVisions Conference that just wrapped up in Portland, OR yesterday. The conference was pretty low key but the temperature wasn’t. It hit 105 degrees yesterday, a record and I don’t have air conditioning in my car. Rush hour traffic was brutal. The rest of the trip from Portland, home, was one […]
According to Hsing Wei’s Masters Project for the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University)
“The Hype vs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and the Future of Newsâ€
There is much confusion over the hype vs. reality of collaborative news and interactive technology’s impact. What is out there? How should the emergence […]
RSS newsreaders deliver headlines with all the panache of a brick.
But a growing number of bohemian RSS mashups are combining news feeds with style, art and whimsy.
Electronic artists are tweaking RSS interfaces, harnessing Flash animation and relational algorithms to breed outlandish, new ways of presenting information captured from news feeds. The results are interesting.
Phylotaxis, […]
Chris Anderson, Wired Editor, and author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More was interviewed on NPR today. He gave industry statistics for what we’ve suspected, that the web sales of non-hit merchandise is big business. Why else wouldiTunes Music Store feature 3 million songs? Even counting oldies, […]
Georgia was well-received, but initially proved less popular than Verdana, which was hailed throughout the late 1990s as the defining typeface of the new digital era. By the early 2000s taste was changing.
Georgia’s popularity also reflects our growing ease with computers. Improvements in screen quality have made it easier to read more sophisticated fonts […]
