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Searching for Good, Cheap Wine (Again)

February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Wine Markets

In the never ending quest for good, cheap wine, we have some new entrants into the field (hat tip to AltSearchEngine) that seem to be promising. We’ve already talked about Snooth and how they seem to be headed in the right direction, but ablegrape and Vinquire have some potent offerings. Vinquire tries to bridge the [...]

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“Better Than Free” … Wouldn’t That Be Free-er (er, More Free)?

February 7th, 2008 · Comments Off · Information Markets

Kevin Kelly has written something that seems to be getting a lot of attention – Better Than Free. The article essentially lists out various ways that companies can add value to their information goods, and hence a price greater than free (a word beautiful to the consumer, hated by entrepreneurs and companies). The fundamental insight [...]

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Online Ads Are Here To … Be Blocked

February 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Other Markets

I once wrote an article called Ads Are Here To Stay. Perhaps I was naive back then (or maybe wise, who knows), but it seemed to me (and perhaps everyone else) that online ads were on their way to becoming a permanent fixture of the web, paying as they did for all of that free, [...]

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HubDub Arrives

January 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Other Markets, Prediction Markets

There’s been a bit of a news storm about the launch of HubDub at the DEMO conference. And deservedly so. Much of the feedback from the prediction market industry watchers has been positive. And I agree with their assessment. There is much to be said for HubDub. But perhaps the most important thing is that [...]

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Search Engines Dominate Searching? I Don’t Buy It

January 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Other Markets

It is often said that the search engines Google, Microsoft, Ask, and Yahoo dominate almost 99% of all online searches. There is no doubt that these giants do dominate searching for web pages, but how many people search for just web pages these days? Let me give you a simple example. You don’t use Google [...]

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99% Owned is 1% Free …!

December 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Fun

I love this info graphic from the home page of Yahoo Sports, NHL. It’s on the edge of objectionable … just teetering, really. First, notice the test-tube-looking-thingy. That, I think, is actually supposed to be a thermostat with a heat index. Who knows what the scale is (but hey, who cares!). Just know that blue [...]

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Get Your Metadata On … Right.

September 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Usability

It’s always amusing (a case of that dasterdly schadenfreude, perhaps) when companies that should know better mix up the simple stuff. A case in point is Yahoo Sports, where there are featured hockey images on the NHL home page. Problem is, the person (or computer) at Yahoo who is tagging the images to be displayed [...]

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Search, Not Just For Giants Anymore

June 15th, 2007 · Comments Off · Information Design, Usability

In the not-so-distant past search engines were limited in their distribution to the monolithic, internet-wide search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask.com), or to others who needed them and could support them (large online retailers). But my, how times have changed. Now search engines are small, portable, and very specific. A look around the internet block gives [...]

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Pet Peeves, Annoyances and Other Complaints

February 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Prediction Markets, Usability

It used to be that on about a weekly basis I would take a trip through the various prediction market sites just to see what was new. I got away from that habit for a while, but when I can back from vacation I started to pay more attention again. I saw some good things, [...]

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