The Case of the Disappearing Product

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Many online businesses still follow the subscription model. It looks like the theory behind it is passive income. You built your idea once, then farm it out to the users on a yearly or monthly fee. Aside from customer support, on the surface it looks appealing.
Flickr, Wufoo, Mad Mimi and even Paypal uses a variant [...]

An e-list design done right

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Please excuse the poor headline. It’s rough, just like the “designs” found in our e-lists.
When it comes to design, it doesn’t exist in the e-lists. Our customers dictate what they want and ignore any suggestions made on our part. Go ahead- glance through a few. I hated working on e-lists. It was detestable work, being [...]

White Hat SEO: giving the hard answer

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

A Word About Our Clients
Everyone wants the easy way to get to the top of the search results list. Expecting good results and a strong return on investment are natural signs of a good business mind. How to turn a web site into an investment with a return is a little harder to grasp. If [...]

Mac vs. PC

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

It’s my observation that PCs are great for business types. Windows and Microsoft Office have really dominated the office productivity area and done it well. There is a set formula and structure behind the Windows and its office software- something an analytical mind can appreciate. Macs are great for the creative types. It can keep [...]

Why the IDM-NM major is the Next Big Thing

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

While talking to the Interactive Digital Media Senior Seminar class, I saw an unusual phenomenon. Most of the IDM students were choosing the New Media concentration. If I had been asked to predict the trends of the IDM major just before graduating two years ago, I would have said I expected the students would diffuse [...]