Oh Master, Where art thou? (1)
Laptops are displacing desktops. Laptop diskdrives are small, and potentially getting smaller*. Increasingly this means that the disk inside your main machine is insufficient to house all your precious data. You can plug in an external harddrive, but the reason it isn’t in the laptop in the first place, is the same reason you won’t [...]
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Generating Click Throughs? Spotify (0)
I very seldom click on Internet advertising. I’m often quite focused on what I’m doing, and the adventure into ad world doesn’t appeal. But this weekend I clicked on no less than 5 Spotify ads. This you might argue is because they can profile me so well by the music I listen to. It may [...]
USB On The Go - where are the products? (1)
The USB 2.0 standard enables you to connect any two USB enabled devices and let them communicate. The key here is neither of the devices needs to be a computer. This means you should be able to plug your camera right into your external harddrive, and without any clicking, booting up, typing in or other [...]
Pricing in fraud - beware those willing to pay (2)
The Market for Lemons theory has a lot to tell us about how best to price in the costs of fraud. If we charge everyone for the cost of fraudulent users, good users will be unwilling to pay, but bad users will have no issue with the fees (they’re paying them with stolen money after [...]
Bandwidth remains expensive - bottleneck moves to chair (2)
In the ‘old world’ each communications medium had a pecking order. The medium, be it phone, email, IM or SMS implied something about 1) how quickly (if at all) you needed to pay attention 2) how temporal the information was and 3) whether the communication was formal or informal. IMs could be ignored if you [...]
