This is my archive

Five Reasons why Apple’s Days are Numbered

Ok, so this entry is another wound in an age old religious war. Not everyone at idfive agrees with my analysis – in fact,… Read More

A good dentist is hard to find

I’d been working in the Web industry for a few years before I realized how the Internet was going to change absolutely everything. The year… Read More

Customer Experience: The Last Competitive Advantage

Recently, we lost our resident tech guru to greener pastures in the Pacific North West. All of the office… Read More

The Squint Test Won’t Cut it Anymore?

About seven years ago, I learned a great lesson from a great person. Peter Quinn, my then Art Director, and current… Read More

“Crowdsourced” Software & Businesses

Cambrian House is a really cool/fascinating experiment in “crowdsourcing” software and business ideas. Basically folks register and submit their ideas for… Read More

That broken phone isn’t really broken

A new survey of 15,000 “faulty” wireless devices returned to UK provider WDSGlobal found that 63 percent of them weren’t broken… Read More

Susan Thompson Buffett’s Five Principles

Several weeks back, I wrote about Bill Gates and his decision to step to the side at Microsoft and to focus his attention on… Read More

In Their Brilliance, Wal-Mart Forgot One Thing: The Consumer

Wal-Mart has made oodles of dollars by applying some smart and consistent strategies to their operation. They have made significant investments to their infrastructure,… Read More

“My Money is on Microsoft,” said the Intern

The Wall Street Journal had a great article today about the recent partnering activities between Microsoft, Google, eBay, and Yahoo! The gist of the article… Read More

Old Media Deathwatch: More People Listen to Internet Radio in the UK than “traditional” Radio!

ComputerActive reports that more people in the UK listen to Internet radio than to terrestrial radio. According to a study conducted by Virgin:… Read More