Stuart Brown over on Modern Life is Rubbish was chiming in on Ryan Tomayko’s negative experience with having a front page digg story. Stuart makes some very fine points about how to deal with the technical side of a big traffic influx, but his “Disable comment posting” recommendation and throwaway line about pharmaceuticals is dated. [...]
Price is a Signal
BoingBoing and Waxy are both linking to a Dallas Food article about Noka Chocolates. The general tenor of the internet commentary about Noka has been: “wtf, omg, they’re ripping people off!!”, which I think is incredibly interesting.
Malcolm Gladwell covered similar territory in his book Blink: people are ok with a company saying: “We’ll charge [...]
Hidden Businesses
Paul Kedrosky posts about how Research In Motion’s recent earnings reports were high because they’ve started hitting the “consumer market”. However, I think it’s rather the opposite: consumers have become micro-businesses and as a result are much more interested in features like mobile, business facing email and web access.
Personally, I like T-Mobile’s Sidekick 3. [...]