Monthly Archives: February 2008

Random House Audio abandons audiobook DRM – Boing Boing “Random House Audio — a division of Bertelsmann, one of the largest publishing conglomerates in the world — has announced that it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without … Continue reading →

Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart Amazon has “…built a culture of incremental website optimization. It’s this foundation that’s made them one of the top-converting websites, month after month.” (tags: Amazon Design shopping ecommerce retail Metrics Measurement optimization) FreeScreencast.com … Continue reading →

50 Questions to Evaluate the Quality of Your Website “This 50 questions long questionnaire might trigger something here and there for some of you or maybe brings some forgotten item from the long to-do list back into your mind.” (tags: … Continue reading →

Listen to your blog – BlogBard “Want your own personalized radio station? Now you can listen to your favourite blogs on your ipod or on your iphone!” (tags: feeds Audio blog Blogs MP3 podcast) photography light cage “It simulates a … Continue reading →

Obsolete Skills: Skills/Skills Dude, you’re so obsolete… (tags: Career Humor innovation directory fun funny geek history technology retro wiki)

Adobe Tour of California Tracker Flash-based real-time tracker of the tour (tags: cycling tourofcalifornia bike flash bicycle Adobe flex GPS Maps mashup web2.0) doubleTwist “doubleTwist desktop enables you to easily share media with friends and sync with popular devices.” (tags: … Continue reading →

Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) “Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both.’ (tags: applications Design development heuristics usability UI UX webdesign) Join … Continue reading →

Wubi – The Easiest Way to Linux “Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application.” … Continue reading →

ControlC “Anytime you copy textual content, ControlC will upload that text to our server to store under your account.” (tags: applications Service online sharing social Text web2.0 webapp webservices API tools web) Comcast Invests in Project Canoe “Comcast announced it … Continue reading →

Ben Stein’s 10-Minute investment Tips “I’ve developed a few simple rules to invest by. I consider them the Zen of investing, because if you work at them, they eventually become instinctive. You won’t have to think about them. You’ll just … Continue reading →

What’s Next for YouTube (Video Editing, Recommendations, Advertiser Analytics) “…at an event in NYC dubbed “Videocracy,” YouTube gave marketers a sneak peak at some upcoming initiatives.” (tags: youtube Google marketing video videos web2.0 analytics Advertising)

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Amazon’s river of bits “…the company’s recent moves show that a transformation, or at least a refocusing, may be in the works. Amazon may be signaling that it sees its future more as a river … Continue reading →

Epeus’ epigone: The Social Cloud “Kevin Marks is a software engineer at Google, was principal engineer for Technorati and one of the founders of Microformats. In this video Kevin talks about the big picture re: the phenomenon of online social … Continue reading →

Not So Crazy: Yahoo May Partner With AOL To Escape Microsoft “Don’t forget that Google owns 5 percent of AOL and … wants to stop the Yahoo-Microsoft tie-up, might be able to sweeten the idea of Yahoo getting AOL by … Continue reading →

The Immutable Laws of Web Design and Development | Blue Flavor “Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.” … Continue reading →