Having spent years as a construction project manager prior to starting to work on the internet in 1995, I know the value of a good specification. It’s the document that defines the expectations, goals and means of achieving a final result which is agreed to and signed off on as the first phase of any project. In the case of small projects, we’ll often rely on the accepted project estimate as our specification, but for anything more than a simple…
Rogue squirrels attacking passersbys in Mountain View, CA. Read it here
Jim Louderback at PCMag.com posted about a nasty exploit for Internet Explorer. Patch your machines now…I’ve just completed the patch on several machines. Read more in PC Mag.
Going back to my post last week about virtual personal computers, I was rather surprised to see this in that bastion of Tech Know How, Boston.com – Scandisk and Lexar media are making smart thumb drives that will allow you to use your desktop and applications on any machine running Windows XP (and probably Vista). No more hauling your laptop on the plane, just plug in your thumb when you get there. It’s the right way to go, but on…
I made passing reference to the Buzzlogic Tool yesterday, in making my point on the WSJ New-Media World article. Since then, Buzzlogic itself has gone to create a virtual case study on the buzz capability “blog-vegas” – they’ve turned up in Dan Farber’s blog on ZDNet, in Tom Foremski’s blog on Silicon Valley Watcher, Ethan Kaplan’s BlackRimGlasses.com, and a total of 78 blogs so far since David Churbuck’s post (see the WSJ post yesterday, I don’t want to clutter up his blog with trackbacks) yesterday. As…
The Wall Street Journal today devoted 2 pages to the importance of blogging and the internet for small businesses. The article, entitled How to Get Attention in a New-Media World (subscription – find a print copy if you can get it) is a great example of what I’ve been telling the Vario community for years: be the expert and you will be viewed as the expert. The essence of the article is that the Internet has (not will, not might,…
Mike B. asks: Okay – enough marketing, web and tech – where are the damned farm animals. Ask and you shall receive.
Download our Understanding Search Engine Optimization at the Basic Level Whitepaper (This is from a whitepaper written for Vario Creative some time ago, but still pertinent – MNC) In the past couple years the dominance in the search engine market of Google™ and their dependence upon “the Google algorithm” for generating results has created a new area of specialization in web design firms called “Search Engine Optimization.” There are all kinds of businesses now that are making all kinds of…
Vin Crosbie posted what could only be called a major treatise on the decline of the news industry. I’m honestly still dissecting it. The main point appears to come down to this being a case of slow suicide, rather than murder by internet. However, an examination of data shows that their online editions are read by fewer people — and less often and less frequently — than the dying print or broadcast editions. Moreover, ten years into these efforts, the…
Read the previous post about online virtual servers from Amazon, then consider this from Forbes.com: Like Google , Yahoo! and others, Salesforce is treating the Internet less like a communications network and more like a computing platform, a continuation of the dispersal of computing power from a mainframe to servers to a personal computer. And like his colleagues (albeit more vocally), Benioff sees Microsoft as a computer industry chokepoint that will be eliminated by Internet-based mashups. Will our computers become…