It’s been said everyone has at least one book in them. The irrepressible Eric Peterson, he of the self-published book as well as a (soon-to-be) published by O’Reilly book, has decided he needs to write another. In the spirit of information wanting to be free (and perhaps getting some early arrows that will sharpen the [...]
Entries from July 10th, 2005
Direct and Indirect
July 8th, 2005 No Comments
Wi-Fi Planet, part of the Jupiter Media keiretsu, reports on a Jupiter Research study that claims municipal Wi-Fi (wireless) costs about US$150,000 per square mile over 5 years, and wouldn’t break even even if it charged users $25/month. But .. not everything gets built to make money. Freeways are an example. They are considered enabling [...]
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In The Dark
July 8th, 2005 No Comments
Harte-Hanks surveyed 1,000 companies and found that 71% of them want to monitor their web site for problems, but only 34% do. Also, 71% want tools to find the root of problem, but only 21% have them. The survey was commissioned by Symphoniq, a provider of monitoring tools, who additionally note that more than 3/4 [...]
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92466 (I Got Your Number)
July 7th, 2005 No Comments
Y! search blog talks about a new way to access Y! search by SMS. Yeah yeah. But wait, there’s some cool stuff here. First, no dorking around putting your phone in Internet browser mode, just send an SMS to 92466 (YAHOO). Even better: there are shortcuts (e.g. “d” for dictionary definitions) for when you’re deep [...]
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Writing Press Releases is Hard
July 7th, 2005 No Comments
I probably read (OK, scan) a couple dozen press releases every morning, in the industries (or keywords) that are of interest to me. If you’ve done much of that, you tend to get jaded pretty fast, with organizations announcing essentially nothing, or obviously piggybacking on other big names in the hope that they’ll get some [...]
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If You Can’t Trust Your Employees…
July 7th, 2005 No Comments
…get new ones! Compliance Pipeline reports on a new Forrester survey: A whopping 63% of large companies employ or plan to hire people to read or audit sent e-mail — that figure is 70% among the largest companies. This is just offensive. Check out The GNU Privacy Guard.
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Satisfying Customers
July 7th, 2005 No Comments
ForeSee and FGI Research produced an insightful report called the Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index (pdf is available here). It looked at the top 40 eCommerce sites and used the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) to scientifically measure (1.6 million users) how satisfied each retailer’s customers are. Here are the top [...]
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As The Web Turns
July 6th, 2005 No Comments
JZ comes back, asks what did I miss?. A good round-up is provided in the comments. (Nice to be an A-lister.) Dude. You missed the teeth gnashing on TheUnofficialGoogleWeblog: It is difficult to type this, but increasingly I find myself pushed away by Google’s intrusive attempts at personlization [sic]. At the same time, I am [...]
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HotJobs: Now With More Vitamins and Minerals
July 6th, 2005 No Comments
For the job seekers: jobster notes that HotJobs search results now contain Job Results From The Web. Sponsored listings get top billing, but check out all the new listings that have been found from hither and yon (do people still say that?). Nice to be able to go to one place rather than poke through [...]
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