“While social commerce is a fairly new concept in online shopping, it is quickly gaining momentum, as more online vendors realize that there are few more powerful sales forces than a personal recommendation, picking up where comparison shopping engines leave off…Wists.com and Kaboodle.com are two of the early social commerce programs. “ Yahoo Unleashes a User-Plugged Shoposphere
Sony’s latest cockup with DRM in CD’s shows that they haven’t a clue – or rather that the media bods in Sony don’t have a clue. More than ever, Sony needs to split its hardware and media divisions before one drags the other down. Such a spectacular failure in DRM attached to physical media sets a huge precedent – Sony will have to change tactic. Their real fight now is with Apple since Apple’s DRM is flowing onto iPods without people really noticing while their own attempt got caught by being stupidly aggressive. Anyone who has visited a used CD store recently and looked at the prices, can see that the very CDs that the music industry fought so hard to push, with inferior artwork to vinyl, are its worst enemy – they have created the sneakernet Napster. The price of used CD’s is dropping as they change from a…
Not needing an umbrella, due to the clement weather, she furled the small, weildy flag with both hands, full of ruth at one so vincible, pervious to her own pain. Although he had been maculate, with peccable taste, he was gainly and couth and his love for her was truly requited…
Dorothy: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” The Kansas state motto is ‘ad astra per aspera’ – to the stars through adversity. Sometime Kansan, Charles Lindbergh, was the first person to fly Accross the Atlantic. A Kansan, Steve Hawley, was on board the first flight of the space shuttle, Discovery, and that same Kansan was in charge of deploying the Hubble Telescope. Somewhere in a Kansas school is a litlle girl or boy who could have taken us further towards the stars if it hadn’t just been made deliberately more difficult. And all because a few arrogant grown ups banged their heads and are off to see the Wizard. I’d love to write a satire of the Kansas School Board based on the Wizard of Oz. Ad Astra Per Veritas. Pharyngula::Goodbye, Kansas
According to the principal of unintelligent design, the Kansas school board has technically opened the door to schools teaching satanism on a par with science. CNN.com – Kansas school board redefines science – Nov 8, 2005
Michael Parekh explains wists much better than I ever could in his post: microchunking commerce the web 2.0 way. Speaking of which, having eaten my own dogfood by doing cribcandy I now know what I need to fix on wists to make it a lot better. I’m working hard to try and get a decent wists release out and some more cribcandy like sites are in the pipeline.
The sandwich took 15 hours to eat – but was freakin awesome apparently.link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark
Joel is “starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite….I’ll do my part. I hereby pledge never again to use the term “Web 2.0″ on this blog, or to link to any article that mentions it. You’re welcome.” Most of what is ‘Web 2.0’ is based around ideas of a few people who had to ride out Web 1.0 with no buzz or funding, while people selling fresh mangos online were talking to VCs. This time perhaps the good people, the Evan Williams’ Dave Winers’ (yes, dammit, Dave Winer), ‘Ian Clarke equivalents are in their garretts building the real next generation web. Those people will be beavering away, building instead of talking. On that note – I’d guess I’d better get back to work. Joel on Software – Friday, October 21, 2005
Cribcandy is today’s Yahoo pick: “A sleek catalog of nifty gadgets and hip furniture… like a Gizmodo or Engadget for Eames chair enthusiasts. You may also be looking at the future of online shopping — this site uses “wists,” or bookmarkable thumbnails, to create its constant feed of tiny images from boutiques and blogs across the Web.”
Jakob Nielsen says that the new UI paradigm to replace Apple’s will come from Microsoft: “Macintosh-style interaction design has reached its limits. A new paradigm, called results-oriented UI, might well be the way to empower users in the future…The next version of Microsoft Office (code-named “Office 12″) will be based on a new interaction paradigm called the results-oriented user interface” Results-oriented UI turns out to be templates. Because there are too many options in MS Office to have individual commands the idea is that the results of groups of them are displayed. It is, perhaps, a bit rich for anyone to champion Microsoft over Apple in terms of design at the moment, but design is subjective, I guess. Where Nielsen is provably wrong, however, is where he confuses User Interface with User Interaction (isn’t he supposed to be an expert in Interaction?): “rather than typing in commands and parameters, users…
This is my personal opinion and does not reflect any company policy. Most web content is published and then indexed when a search engine finds it, taking up to 30 days. In the past submitting your site to a search engine was the done thing – now its coming back, only better. Search engines have completely different indexes for news and weblog search, because the indexes need to be updated more quickly, to be able to do this they cannot search the entire web every few minutes but need to be alerted – or pinged. Currently, ‘pings’ to sites like weblogs.com or ping-o-matic or blo.gs say that SOMETHING has been updated on a weblog or news site. Specs such as RSSPing change this to a ping that says WHAT has been updated. If all pages being published on the web did this (and there is no technical reason why they…
Today’s Cribcandy has a list of some of the most recent innovations in LED lighting from being directly embedded into fabrics, bathroom tiles and translucent glass. LED’s are currently only in widespread use for applications with high maintenance costs such as traffic lights, but as their performance increases over the next 5 to 10 years, they will eventually replace standard home and office lighting and transform the way that interiors can be designed. Aside from the tiny size of LED’s (or the even newer LECs (Light Emitting Capacitors), LED’s are approaching the lifespan of standard building materials, making it cost effective to embed them directly in structural components and architectural finishes. The biggest change, however, is that because the currents involved are tiny, LED lighting can be directly controlled, digitally, meaning that there are almost unlimited effects that can be produced cheaply and controlled wirelessly. Given that transparent wiring can…