Posts filed under “Technology”
“They're Not Going to Say I really love Amazon, but I wish their prices were a little higher.” – Jeff Bezos Interview in Harvard Business Review
There’s a great interview of Jeff Bezos in the October 2007 issue of HBR. I think Amazon is making some great moves lately with their web services initiatives, their foray into movies and music and after reading this article I came away even more impressed than I was before. It helps to base your strategy [...]
Couponlooker Improvements
We released some significant new functionality on couponlooker today. (We also put out some new features on Judy’s Book which I’m really excited about but more on that tomorrow.) Kurt and Dave (Ops and Test) deserve a special thank you for great work in helping us iron out the kinks in this release and making [...]
Ebay & SEM
According to this Comscore report, (thanks for the pointer to this Garth) Ebay is the largest SEM marketer on the web with 800+MM exposures and which represented 4.1% of the total (March 2007 data). It makes sense that their decision to pull advertising on Google made Google blink. hi-def shutter island movie In March, paid [...]
Video vs. Freeze Frames (via 37 Signals)
We were just having a conversation at the office about video reviews and some of the disadvantages they have relative to a text format. The primary one was the fact that you have to absorb information at the pace of the presenter, not at the pace you can assimilate. Coincidentally, I just came across a [...]
Update on IE7 vs. Firefox Tabs
At Calvin’s recommendation I downloaded and tried out TabMixPlus (a Firefox extension) and it’s awesome. It allows me to configure the tab open behavior to the model that I want which means I’m not going to be opening IE7 as often. how to watch the full film of pineapple express The program has a wealth [...]
Google Sync for Blackberry…Finally!
I found out¬†via Google Operating System that Google launched it’s Blackberry Sync app.¬†This is awesome. It works beautifully with multiple calendars and I can’t tell you how happy I am. I have spend endless hours futzing with various Rube Goldberg-esque solutions that ultimately didn’t work. Thank you Google. titanic movie rating Check it out¬†now at [...]
I prefer IE7's tab implementation to Firefox's
I know I’m going to hate myself in the morning for saying this, but IE7′s implementation of tabbed browsing has one tiny detail in it that Firefox doesn’t and it’s driving me nuts. The issue is a small one (like most things that influence usability) – when you open a new tab in IE7, it [...]
Let the User Experience Lead the Way
The decision to release a new feature or say that you support a new geography is ultimately driven by the answer to one question. “Can I deliver a good user experience if I do this?” You have to be honest with yourself when you answer this question. If the answer is yes, then expose the [...]
Make Only One Sale (via Raganwald)
There’s a great, raw post on learning from failure at Raganwald that talks about “inventing a great solution to a problem no one cares about…” This is something which is all too familiar to a lot of us. It is definitely possible for something to be really cool and for nobody to give a damn. [...]
Iteration Speed vs. Iteration Quality (via Coding Horror)
I’ve linked to this blog before and I’m doing it again, because it’s terrific. Required reading for anyone interested in technology and software. Jeff Atwood has an excellent post on iteration quality vs. speed which he illustrates using the superior kill ratio of the F-86 vs. the Mig-15 in dogfights. I’m also a closet aircraft [...]