Business

38 posts

Commerce, industries, economics and the practice and implications of good old-fashioned capitalism.

Mon 04 Feb
2008

Design Couldn’t Save Yahoo

10:24 PM
Remarks (28)

Where are the design advocates when a design-savvy company fails?

Wed 10 Oct
2007

The Cost of Unchanging Seasons

09:54 PM
Remarks (26)

When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange. Unless you’re the New York Yankees.

Mon 20 Aug
2007

Little Shops of Horrors

11:51 PM
Remarks (24)

Why it’s good that the Internet is killing boutiques.

Wed 07 Mar
2007

A Commercial Message

11:27 PM
Remarks (55)

Interrupting this program for a word from your blogger.

Thu 07 Dec
2006

Lookin’ for the Next Quicken

11:31 PM
Remarks (40)

Casting about for a replacement personal banking application.

Mon 06 Nov
2006

Survival Tips for Working In-House

11:18 PM
Remarks (11)

Life on the inside… of an in-house design group.

Mon 21 Aug
2006

Meetings in Progress, Lots of Them

09:32 PM
Remarks (6)

Getting good design out of a surfeit of workplace meetings.

Mon 08 May
2006

On the Second Day

10:34 PM
Remarks (4)

Notes from the heart of the conference.

Thu 04 May
2006

A Gel of a Conference

10:20 PM
Remarks (1)

First day of my first time at Creative Good’s Gel Conference.

Thu 13 Apr
2006

Hiring the Right Design Manager

11:58 PM
Remarks (6)

Things to look for when looking for things that make good design managers.

Mon 27 Feb
2006

Citizen Journalists, Unite

10:49 PM
Remarks (14)

Newsvine aims to hybridize the unwashed masses and the mainstream media.

Mon 12 Dec
2005

Plausible Deniability in Customer Service

06:46 PM
Remarks (14)

Customer service lines are user interfaces too.

Fri 08 Jul
2005

Get Yer Invoice On(line)

01:56 PM
Remarks (5)

Billing customers got you down? Try Blinksale.

Sun 19 Jun
2005

Absenteeism & Apologia

04:03 PM
Remarks (3)

A long-winded excuse for an extremely busy period of not doing anything on this Web site.

Mon 18 Apr
2005

You Got Your Flash in My Acrobat

06:34 PM
Remarks (5)

Thoughts on Adobe’s announced acquisition of Macromedia.

Thu 27 Jan
2005

Get on My Good Side

07:59 PM
Remarks (11)

Tips on how to make a great impression when interviewed by yours truly.

Wed 31 Mar
2004

Bookkeeping for Dummies

10:59 PM
Remarks (2)

My award for the worst interface in a best-selling, market-leading software application goes to…

Thu 12 Feb
2004

The ’Point I’m Making

07:27 PM
Remarks (2)

Finally revealed: secrets to success with PowerPoint!

Fri 21 Nov
2003

Ghosts of Dotcom Bubbles Past

04:43 PM
Remarks (2)

The ghosts of a once-high flying dotcom haunts the Internet still.

Wed 30 Jul
2003

The Skillz to Design the Billz

01:35 PM
Remarks (1)

How to design the perfect bill.

Thu 17 Jul
2003

Better Browsers and Books While You Wait

11:04 AM

Two reasons why I’m sure there will be another Internet boom.

Wed 02 Jul
2003

Food for Thought

11:52 PM

The restaurant industry as a model for design.

Tue 01 Jul
2003

R.I.P. C&G

07:24 PM
Remarks (5)

Longtime, well-liked software publisher Casady & Greene have closed shop.

Mon 12 May
2003

Consolidation without Representation

10:46 PM

The FCC is set to vote on significant changes in media ownership rules, virtually without public debate.

Sun 27 Apr
2003

Ubiquitous, Cheap and Out of Control

11:57 PM
Remarks (1)

The problem with the music industry is that the compact disc format itself has been completely devalued.

Mon 17 Feb
2003

Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

12:32 PM

A marriage made in heaven: Google has bought Pyra.

Fri 14 Feb
2003

The Industry That Cried Wolf

10:01 AM

Business Week calls the music industry’s piracy numbers — and credibility — into question.

Tue 11 Feb
2003

All the Work That Went into ’Works

10:41 AM

Bob Hearn, co-creator of ClarisWorks, tells the story of that product and the almost-legendary Claris Corporation.

Mon 09 Dec
2002

Going to Disneyland

10:51 PM

Business 2.0 takes a look inside Electronic Arts.

Tue 12 Nov
2002

Declare the Pennies on Your Eyes

10:10 PM

The number one lesson I’ve learned about business.

Tue 24 Sep
2002

Chill Factor

01:42 PM

The Chill Factor Web site collects frightening samples of the corporate world’s legal bullying.

Mon 09 Sep
2002

Gain

10:01 PM

Announcing Gain 2.0.

Tue 27 Aug
2002

Chill Factor

03:54 PM

Chilling Effects is a showcase for scary corporate bullying.

Thu 27 Jun
2002

Telecon

10:11 AM

The WorldCom disaster can’t be the last financial scandal.

Wed 05 Jun
2002

Numerology

05:23 PM

Citibank has a great product in their Virtual Account Numbers.

Mon 13 May
2002

Soft and Doughy

10:54 AM

How to get a Krispy Kreme franchise with just $5 million.

Wed 28 Feb
2001

Amateur Economists’ Hour

09:22 PM

An unscientific visualization of what’s happening with the Internet consulting industry

Tue 16 Jan
2001

It’s Anyone’s Call

11:02 PM

Is it a recession or a slowdown?