Tuesday, December 31, 2002 New Year’s Resolution: No More “Little Billy” You know what I mean? Lovable “Little Billy” in Family Circus has a short attention span. His meanderings through the house, up a...
Web Portals & Apps
Latest articles
What recession? Although North American economic growth in most traditional categories has been stalled for the past year, e-commerce continues to show robust growth. According to comScore’s holiday 2002 e-commerce report, consumer e-commerce totaled $1.9...
Monday, November 25, 2002 From the Duh! Department It appears that AOL might soon begin featuring Time Warner content exclusively on AOL. That means you freeloaders soon won’t be able to access articles from...
Wednesday, October 30, 2002 Something So Wrong If you ever had a hunch that there was something so wrong about CMGI, this Salon article, “How I Destroyed the New Economy,” by a prescient laborer who...
Monday, September 30, 2002 LookSmart: Fact or Fiction, or “Should I Eat that Crispy Chicken?” When it comes to LookSmart, one of the top three directories on the web and still the best way...
Thursday, August 29, 2002 Matador Taste Test The early results are in, and they’re very positive! (See my post below for the details on Matador.) I have successfully installed it on my office computer,...
Ever have one of those spontaneous email conversations that breaks out amongst four or five people and creates all kinds of random cross-insights? Given that many of us have no “real” water cooler to swap stories around,...
There’s no question about it: customer service on corporate web sites seems to be improving by leaps and bounds, and it’s due in large part to navigation technology companies like Ask Jeeves. Jeeves has for some...
A fair bit has been written about so-called “natural language” and “meaning-based” search engines. Many believe that search engine usability – and Internet usability in general – could be improved if search engines were “smarter” – if...
In a recent article subtitled “Married to an Elephant“, I wrote that Google’s advertiser editorial policies are in large part driven by the new partnership Google has with AOL. After writing this, and advising advertisers to be...