by Tom | Feb 6, 2001 | General
Looks like the serious email bugs are starting to happen. It will be interesting to see how this works. This site explains how to turn off Javascript in the various affected programs.
by Tom | Feb 5, 2001 | General
Deeper inside the reknowned Microsoft interviewing process. Very similar to a lot of other job interviews I’ve done. The point: you can use a fairly simple toolkit to work out whether people have a brain or not.
by Tom | Feb 1, 2001 | General
communities can scale (although their numbers show that revenue per repeat visitor for community sites is lower than other types of site);most major marketing efforts didn’t work (i.e. $25m spend per quarter to recoup $30m a year);traditional models are working...
by Tom | Jan 31, 2001 | General
The street performer protocol. An interesting addition to the how do we pay for copyright material on the web debate. Did Stephen King read this before or after he did his web publishing experiment?
by Tom | Jan 30, 2001 | General
Useful summary of why screen and paper are different for readers and authors, and also how to train people to write for the screen / screen and paper.Face-mail could be the next big thing. More wooden than Liz Hurley, and less attractive.I think the tenor of this...
by Tom | Jan 23, 2001 | General
Here’s an interesting article talking about MojoNation, a fully peer-to-peer distribution system.The Paris Metro Pricing system. Essentially have a first class that looks like the second class but costs twice as much. Only those people who really cared about it...
