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Archive for January, 2007

CanWest to buy Alliance Atlantis

Filed under: — on 11.01.2007.

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It was all in the news today: CanWest Global paired up with Goldman Sachs Capital to buy Alliance Atlantis. The price tag is $2.3 billion. Those are numbers that most us just try to imagine without a real sense of the value.

Anyway, when reading about it there was one …

Simplicity vs. complexity in design

Filed under: — on 11.01.2007.

Don Norman: Logic and reason are wonderful virtues, but they are irrelevant in describing human behavior. Trying to prove a point through intelligent, reasonable argumentation is what I call the â??engineerâ??s fallacy.â?? (Also, the economistâ??s fallacy.â??) We have to design for the way people really behave, not as …

Performancing metrics is gone…

Filed under: — on 11.01.2007.

It’s official. It’s final. If you have bookmarked http://performancing.com/metrics - don’t try it. It will take you to a short announcement: Metrics Closed. Too bad. I liked their service, it was useful and easy to handle. I know, it’s not the end of the world, the script is given …

The dreams in the digital bedroom - or why MSN sucks

Filed under: — on 11.01.2007.
BG

While Bill Gates shares his futuristic dreams about the digital bedroom and other similar idiocies - his whole gang is not able to make MSN work as it is expected. MSN’s “mypage” is not able to read RSS feeds despite the claims it can.

I …

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