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  1. 7-11 Theory on Web Design by Kamel+Jockey · · Score: 1 · on What Makes a Good Web Design?

    According to this, the key to good e-commerce site design is that it should be as easy to buy something from your site as it is to walk into a 7-11 with a $10 bill and buy some milk. I think it makes perfect sense, as there are way too many sites which make the process of buying something so friggin' cumbersome that you just give up and go to the next vendor.

  2. Job Board Sites are dead by Safety+Cap · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Do You Like Your Job?
    Best job search site around
    Check out this Techrepublic article (registration may be required). According to Forrester, only 4 percent of jobs found are done so via the job boards.

    Have you been on those things lately? I figure close to 75 percent of all the jobs listed on Monster and Dice are body shops trying to fill their skills databases, and the other 25 percent are the same old job listings that have been there for MONTHS.

    A clueless friend of mine keeps me "updated" on all of these great jobs that he keeps seeing on the boards, yet he fails to make the connection that the reason the same ones keep showing up is that the companies who post are either

    • clueless on how to attract/retain quality employees,
    • sold on this cool, new thing call the "web", or
    • have no idea what they want and are fishing for answers
    Either way, they're losers; why waste time with losers?
  3. Yup by itwerx · · Score: 2, Informative · on Online Contract Archive?

    Guru.com
    Techrepublic.Com

    I'm giving you top links rather than deep ones because these sites have a LOT of other good info which it would behoove you to run across on your way to finding them. :)

  4. Another M$ plot (kinda OT) by MousePotato · · Score: 3 · on Followup On Paying Twice for Windows
    In this article (annoying free registration required) at TechRepublic there is good information on Microsoft's plans to start renting thier applications to companies. The idea being that M$ now beleives that ASP's are for real and will be a better way to manage thier revenue stream. The model being a per user charge for the OS and for thier products like Back Office and the Office suite. An interesting comment in the article:
    ... If Sun, IBM, Oracle, and AOL all decided to band together and focus on providing the Sun StarOffice Suite on a standard Linux/Gnome platform using a rich, hosted Lotus Notes back end for a set fee per month, ($5 or less), then Microsoft would have to dramatically alter their plans to continue desktop operating system and productivity suite domination.
    I realize this post is slightly off topic but its worth a look and discussion here too. Paying twice for windows is kind of like being taxed by M$ for thier crappy os. I know they are big, but, they certainly arent the government and taxation without representation is (last i checked) still illegal. My point here is that both the topic and this article detail a good portion of M$'s revenue schemes for the future. If they go for the leasing concept there will be many smaller firms looking into switching to other platforms which is good news for all of us.
  5. Another M$ plot (kinda OT) by MousePotato · · Score: 3 · on Followup On Paying Twice for Windows
    In this article (annoying free registration required) at TechRepublic there is good information on Microsoft's plans to start renting thier applications to companies. The idea being that M$ now beleives that ASP's are for real and will be a better way to manage thier revenue stream. The model being a per user charge for the OS and for thier products like Back Office and the Office suite. An interesting comment in the article:
    ... If Sun, IBM, Oracle, and AOL all decided to band together and focus on providing the Sun StarOffice Suite on a standard Linux/Gnome platform using a rich, hosted Lotus Notes back end for a set fee per month, ($5 or less), then Microsoft would have to dramatically alter their plans to continue desktop operating system and productivity suite domination.
    I realize this post is slightly off topic but its worth a look and discussion here too. Paying twice for windows is kind of like being taxed by M$ for thier crappy os. I know they are big, but, they certainly arent the government and taxation without representation is (last i checked) still illegal. My point here is that both the topic and this article detail a good portion of M$'s revenue schemes for the future. If they go for the leasing concept there will be many smaller firms looking into switching to other platforms which is good news for all of us.
  6. Not on Nike but related... by FIGJAM · · Score: 1 · on Nike Gets Sued Over Nike.com Hijack

    TechRepublic.com also has an article titled Could a DDoS attack land you in court? Experts say yes

  7. Ram technology review by Scott+McGuire · · Score: 5 · on Samsung Claims World's First 288Mb Rambus DRAM

    Ars Technica had this link to an article about ram technologies. RAMBUS didn't look so good there.