When to buy a new mac?
June 7th, 2006
Mac Buyer’s Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac
Brilliant little guide that tells you when an apple line is about to be upgraded. I’m waiting on a powermac upgrade…
Amazon profits fall 35% on costs
April 26th, 2006
Internet retailer Amazon has seen quarterly profits drop 35%, hit by costs related to updating technology.
Net income was $51m (£29m; 48m euros) in the three months to March 31 compared with $78m a year earlier.
Amazon sells corn flakes
April 19th, 2006
Amazon.com Health & Personal Care: Food & Snacks / corn flakesAmazon has started selling food. Not really sure why. Obscure books on the web, yes, great idea, cornflakes, no – at least not from amazon!
Some great web usability quotes
April 9th, 2006
Anyone who tries to report problems with web sites is going to get enough rude and incomprehending answers from “designers” that they’ll soon lose the motivation, and get into the habit of just shrugging their shoulders and going somewhere else.- Alan J. FlavellAnyone who slaps a “this page is best viewed with Browser X” label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.- Tim Berners-Lee, Technology Review, July 1996No one is going to change their web browsing habits, nor their web browsing software, just to view your particular web site.- Karl J. von LaudermannThe concept of the web is of universal readership. If you publish a document on the web, it is important that anyone who has access to it can read it and link to it.- Tim Berners-Lee