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- Aardvark's new design: simpler, cleaner, and kinda like Twitter
- If you haven't played with Aardvark yet, you haven't fully experienced the power of the Internet. If you are unfamiliar, Aardvark lets you ask a question and promises an accurate answer from a trusted source in under five minutes. If you use...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Question, Aardvark, Vark, Spam, Web Site Development, CSS, Desktop Publishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value
- While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design
- ERP > EERPYour insight is appreciated in shining a light on the comparison of ERP goals and accomplishments w/ what's touted of Social Business Design. ERP mindsets combined with the social nature of learning is [in my opinion] what will be required for success. What Tim Harmon of...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise 2.0, ERP, Social Business Design
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Inside Curve: Lane Bryant Scores Plus Plus
- Who doesn't love style and fashion? Well, I suppose I don't love fashion, judging from my incredibly poor clothing selection skills (I rely 100% on my wife, who has mad skills when it comes to picking out good looking clothes) but I am in love with style. I love to...
- Tags: Apparel, Exclusion, Community, Brand, Women, Network, American Eagle, Bebe, Curve, Jay, Kate Moss, Gender And Diversity, Social Networking, Branding, Human Resources, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Should "Standard User" be the default in Windows 7?
- Should "Standard User" be the default in Windows 7?Nopeit's one more example of how MS and usability are mutually exclusive. OS X has been able to implement credential checks effectively.Oh, and just to forestall the inevitable strawman about OS X now being a swiss cheese OS, the purpose of credentials...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, UAC, standard user, admin account, Microsoft Windows 7, security
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- The Groundswell of Social Media Backlash
- There appears to be a fully fledged backlash against 'social media' marketing emerging, with commentary in both areas you'd expect and in places you might not. This is tough on the people who have solid foundations for what marketing messaging is all about,...
- Tags: Facebook, Procter & Gamble Co., Social Media, Burger King Corp., Josh, Desktop Publishing, Marketing Research, Software, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-05-23
- New Zune entertainment services on tap for June?
- New Zune entertainment services on tap for June?That's a pretty lame timetable if you ask meSeems that MS is living in a vacuum where they think they can release a "me too" product with features that their competitors have a long time ago. The Zune v1.0 and WinMo 6.5 are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing research, Microsoft Zune, New Zune, Microsoft Corp., New Zune entertainment service, WinMo, entertainment service, entertainment
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Rail--even more controversial than nuclear?
- Rail--even more controversial than nuclear?Sorry HarryYou're in the wrong place if you expect reasonable discussion based on facts. The majority of responders here start from ideology, not facts.Nuclear fission, of course, is still the same ideology that got us here in the first place. Use a scarce, incredibly...
- Tags: ideology, car, bus system
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- News to know: DEMO, Google, Live Mesh apps, Microsoft PCs
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business? OEM licensing confusion starts at Microsoft.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: What could Microsoft bring to the PC hardware...
- Tags: Google Inc., PC, Microsoft Corp., Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Social design advice for Starbucks
- Starbucks announced today it will begin a daily "Good Sheet" of news about politics, health care and other issues that it will distribute in its stores as a way to start conversations. According to a Starbucks executive quoted by The Motley Fool, the company is looking for "conversation starters." It...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Store, Good Sheet Experiment, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Digital Music, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Busy weekend: Kindle and Facebook beatings
- Robert Scoble spent the last week giving his new Amazon Kindle ebook reader a test drive, reading a couple of books and declaring the progeny of Jeff Bezos a failure. He thinks the usability and user interface suck and it lack features such as a touch screen, social networking and...
- Tags: Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Two weeks to go...what are you doing with your students?
- If your students are anything like mine, they're going completely out of their minds right now and probably taking you right with them. In our case, our seniors have already graduated and everyone else is just counting down. So how do we occupy them with something other than YouTube (which...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- News to know: Steve Jobs on teacher unions, Google stuff, daylight-saving bug
- Notable headlines: In a rare public statement about something other than iPods or Macs, Steve Jobs said that "unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy," and that technology in the classroom isnt going to improve public schools until principals can fire bad teachers.Alfred Thompson, a former teacher...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Farewell to MusicNow & A Look Ahead
- On January 26th of 2004, I wrote a blog entry about Microsoft entering, or not entering the online music business, entitled Microsofts Attention Deficit Disorder & The Music Industry. Those being the "golden days" of the online music business, it was a naive, more gentle time. Wide-eyed enthusiasts from television...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Digital music, Digital media, online music, MusicNow, Napster Inc., America Online Inc., Windows Media
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- A heavy load for the iPhone to bear
- A heavy load for the iPhone to bearDoes MS own ZDNet?Glowing praise of MS press releases, attacks on everyone else.We all know MS give reporters better kickbacks than other IT companies (e.g. laptops) but there must be some professional standard to live up to.Very little detail of the iPhone was...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, phone, Apple Inc., MS Fanboy
- Discussion threads 2007-01-10
- Microsoft vows to play fair
- Microsoft vows to play fairRight, they will NOT use any proprietary APIs or protocols? They have avery liberal view of "play fair".A shame they didn't do this a long time agoThey could have still made plenty of money without the need to have everything and crush anyone that got in...
- Tags: April Fool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-07-19
- Attack code out for Apple flaw
- Attack code out for Apple flawDisgusting! I HATE HIM!!![i]The exploit was created by Kevin Finisterre, a security researcher at Digital Munition. Earlier this year, Finisterre created the Inqtana worm, which targets Mac OS X and spreads using an 8-month-old vulnerability in Apple's Bluetooth software. His actions are in part to...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, exploit, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2006-06-29
- ZoneAlarm Pro 6.5
- In addition to providing antivirus protection, Checkpoint ZoneAlarm Pro 6.5 provides three layers of firewall protection. ZoneAlarm guards at the Internet gateway so that intruders don't get in, on the desktop at the program level so that bogus programs don't connect to the Internet, and inside the operating system kernel...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, ZoneAlarm, ZoneAlarm Pro 6.5, ZoneAlarm Pro
- Product reviews 2006-06-05
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