If you want to keep up with this blog but don’t want to have to remember to check back on a regular basis, one option available to you is the RSS feed. RSS (Really Simple Syndi­cation) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or […]

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Dennis Howlett recently announced a new accounting web app called FreeAgent, which looks pretty cool and seems to be approaching an age-old problem in a new way: All the well known products and services are geared towards people who already under­stand the funda­mentals of book-keeping. Sage, Intuit and others will argue they’ve simplified the user interface […]

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Dennis wrote a post a few days ago about Twitter within “a business context” entitled “The pain of disruption”: I want to DO something with Twitter. The more I think about what Twitter might deliver, the more scary it becomes. Twitter challenges my ingrained notions of how services and value are delivered. In case you […]

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I’ve been using Google Analytics for a little while now to track my blog’s vital statistics, and it’s a pretty well-rounded package, not that I have anything to compare it to. But to sign up for it, you had to submit your appli­cation and then wait for them to let you in, presumably because they were […]

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It was recently announced that Amazon.com’s 1-click payment patent will be recon­sidered by the USPTO, but what is so inter­esting is that it was not filed by one of Amazon.com’s business competitors or by an NPO like the Electronic Frontier Foundation which protects online freedom, but from a New Zealand actor who paid the reexamination […]

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