Archive for January, 2008

Rethinking Expertise

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I have to admit that I've arrived gracefully late to the Podcast party. I've never been a fan of proprietary systems and as such have had a personal grudge against Apple for the way in which they force their users into the Apple system. Having said that I think Apple ...

Is retail the only profitable online business model?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I read an interesting article on Read/Write/Web this morning that talked about the viral effect and building scale in Web 2.0 companies. One of the main points made in the article surrounds the idea that there are three online business models with varying degrees of complexity. The easiest model to ...

Ajax for Ajax sake

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

I'm a huge proponent of new media technologies like AJAX and a fan of the content it enables. But, having said that I can't stand the new AJAX feature Netflix has implemented on their site for browsing new releases. They've moved from a simple interface that listed all of the ...