Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

In the Vanity Fair article – Is the Google Books Settlement Evil, Jennifer Massoni argues that good or not, the Book Publishing industry is headed towards increasing digitization and it will be hard for any one constituent to halt the momentum.  And boy is she right! Having digitized 10Million (and growing) books since 2004, Google [...]

Email comes in 2 flavors: POP and IMAP.
Post Office Protocal (POP), which is less efficient, has its place.  If you are the only one working on your computer, if you do not need to share your work and communications, if you have limited storage space on your email server, and/or you have a slow Internet [...]

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates* weren’t the beginning of the “start your business in your garage” movement.  In 1938, those fun guys, Dave Packard and William Hewlett, joined forces in a small house in what is now Silicon Valley, using the garage for the office.  HP was born.
What does an entrepreneur do when the garage [...]

What do you use to take online payments?  This is a question asked by our clients a lot.
Foregoing the discussions of planning (why, who, for what purpose, the cost and ROI, how to implement, when to upgrade, and most importantly, will your purchaser be comfortable with the system you select), I thought it might be [...]

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Now why is it that 10pm on Sunday night always seems like such a good time to write a new post? Maybe because I’ve procrastinated the weekend away… or maybe I’m just trying to postpone the inevitable.  That’s my existential question of the day.  Now let’s get [...]

Today’s email asks, “To what extent does the impact (visual/navigation/user-friendly) of a web site affect the general public’s assessment of the quality of the services being offered?”
The basic best practices are still relevant.  Clear, unambiguous navigation, good content, fast loading, and keeping me interested from the first click (my click to your entry page), is [...]

I was reminded again today why I get joy in the web coding side of life.  I am a puzzle solver and like to make the code work the best it can for any potential visitor to any site I develop.  I am not a programmer, just a simple, self-taught HTML coder.
My real joy is [...]

Historical markers whiz past as we drive — even in our own neighborhood.
IDEA!
A GPS disk for the car! Before becoming rich and famous with this idea, I did an online search to discover what I already knew: every idea is out there many times over.  Our global world is certainly shrinking as all our ideas [...]

When shopping online, you often see a place to put a coupon or referral number.  And you probably don’t have one.
Don’t despair. Just do a search for that coupon and you’ll find dozens of web sites where you can get a coupon.  Just this month, I registered for web hosting for only a penny with [...]

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in Search Engine Land. Microsoft finally launched a re-branded Live Search called Bing and geeks everywhere have been consumed with comparisons between Google, Yahoo and Bing ever since. Microsoft held a widely heralded Bingathon or live infomercial on Hulu on June 8…to mixed reviews.  It also spent $80-100 [...]