Software pricing

Don’t just roll the dice. Some sensible reflections on how to approach software pricing. Seems like a lot of people just guess.

A case for government intervention in finance?

Surowiecki has a couple of articles looking at banking and debt. He wonders if the crisis has meant that banks have become bigger, or at least the ones that we feel comfortable using. Seperately, he suggests (and I think rightly) that we are predisposed to use debt...

Goldmans

I think the nastiest comment I took out of the Times’ Goldman article was the seeming attempt to square: “We are doing moral, valuable work” and “if you don’t like what we’re doing, we could just do it elsewhere”. It just...

Twitter and businesses

Some useful pointers to how Twitter can fail for businesses. There are lessons here for everyone: you need a voice / a viewpoint to work well in any conversation. A list of sale items is a catalogue, not an advert. So despite the author’s negative conclusion, I...