Just after I poked some fun at Google for buckling-in to Chinese censorship... Telus announces today that it's cancelling its mobile porn service because it received a few hundred complaints from Catholic groups. That's a few hundred complaints out of 5 million customers. Although I don't understand the appeal of mobile adult content, this is ...
We just got a note from Peter Childs that CaseCamp for this coming Monday was postponed. Too bad - the first one was great, but this time there wasn't a rush of presenters signing up. The good news though, is that BarCamp Ottawa 3 is scheduled for March 31. This time ...
Software design has been a lot of fun for the past 10 years or so. Creating a decent user experience is easier. The flexibility of platforms encourage innovation. But I still miss product design... products that have hardware and firmware! But a hardware startup is a more daunting and cash-demanding ...
Online retailers have become popular because of a bunch of obvious reasons: long-tail inventories, decent search and browse, good self-serve UIs, and reliable customer support. I'm surprised that more sites aren't pushing the boundaries of the shopping experience. SM friend Jenny Mehan points us to Etsy -a place to buy and sell handmade goods. ...
One of the most prolific innovation processes I ever implemented was this: the Lizards of Invention - loosely named after Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention , except cold-blooded! There's five important components: 1. Build an idea-capture funnel 2. Schedule an incubation period 3. Discuss under pressure 4. Document 5. Share The recipe: assemble a team of self-selected creative individuals (5 is a ...
Today, the University of Michigan released the quarterly results of their American Customer Satisfaction Index. The index tracks satisfaction for a number of sectors. The numbers for the e-commerce industry are particularly interesting. Here's an excerpt: E-commerce improves for the second year in a row, and at 80 is less than a point ...
So the department of Justice just wrapped up its inaugural conference on Global Internet Freedom... but we're still left with the question - where's the line between good and bad censorship of the internet? A good example of bad censorship is Google.cn trying to block search results for: teen pregnancy, dating, homosexuality, ...
We were very surprised by the instant response we received here at the site over a post Baxter wrote for us on his frustrations with the Adobe website.. His mission was to buy Dreamweaver in Canadian dollars on the Adobe website. Unfortunately, he failed and continues to fail his attempts even today. The response from Adobe ...
*UPDATE* Since this was written, Blog-O-Mine has been updated and no longer finds relationships in your blog! I guess the best feature of this tool turned out to be a bug! Digging through comments to one of our posts back in November and found this comment about a little known app on the web called BlogOMine ...
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