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Advertising on my cell phone : no thank you !

By John Garner on Sunday, April 2, 2006

I've been reading a few articles about the next big thing being advertising on cell phones. I already hate it when I get adverts from my cell phone service provider about something I don't want. So I am sure I don't want to start getting adverts from companies that I have no relationship with whatsoever. […]

Digital music outlook : device operability gains backers

By John Garner on Saturday, April 1, 2006

The fact that Accenture is trying to jump on the bandwagon is not much of a surprise. They were there with a suggestion for the international passport and now suggesting a way to provide a useful product/service that isn't just based on a short term objective of making the most money possible... Although as usual […]

Helping users in and out of your site

By John Garner on Friday, March 31, 2006

With my recently launched voyages.net site, I spent a considerable amount of time working on the user experience both while users surf the site but also when they leave the site. I really dislike clicking on a link that turns out to a 404 error page and there is nothing to do about it. In […]

Give me the whole plot of the film in your review, no thanks !

By John Garner on Friday, March 31, 2006

Hands up, if you like being told what is going to happen during or at the end of a film, tv series, book etc. ?? I just started reading an article on the Guardian about the new Basic Instinct film with Sharon Stone. I'm not even going to link to the article because in about […]

Solutions for protecting laptops : a few examples

By John Garner on Friday, March 31, 2006

Although this article from E-commerce Times doesn't go into great detail about what can be done to protect your computer, it briefly covers some of the new solutions that are appearing. The article provides more detail about what should scare you enough, so that you invest in new solutions.

MySpace : another Web 2.0 example that has reverted procedure

By John Garner on Friday, March 31, 2006

Another example of why the Web 2.0 concept is not viable as described by O'reilly. Mainly the "trust your users" is pretty utopian but AdSense is also not a good example of "customer self service". An article on MediaPost today talks about how the need for investors/advertisers money has pushed MySpace owners into setting up […]

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