On behalf of the Enthusiast team, we wish you a great 2007 filled with success and enthusiasm!
I hope you get to spin one of those classic noisemaker toys and be sure to safely open that champagne bottle. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye…
–jc
I was listening to the latest net@Night show and AmberMac mentioned a new search service called SearchMash that grabs Google results and then puts them in categories. There are a few reasons why this could be very helpful. Read the rest of this entry » »
With all the new buzzwords and acronyms going around these days, it is more than a bit challenging to keep up with it all. From your best friend sending over a TTYL to the late advent of “educational” radio ads to help us learn the technical differences between LCD and Plasma televisions.
Do these marketers really expect me to learn what 1080p or 1080i means or what more or less “amazing” mirrors has to do with my Super Bowl watching experience in 30 seconds? Read the rest of this entry » »
I am sure you have just now finished the photo shoots, the interviews, and the limo rides and have a few minutes to celebrate being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year — certainly that is an inclusive masculine. Time declared the you, who edit the Space Station pages on Wikipedia, you who rouse appetitites with video cooking on YouTube, and you who market your products on the web using Site Director the Person of the Year. Read the rest of this entry » »
Back in 2001, there was a lot of talk about the “8 Second Rule” as it related to e-commerce and buyer patience.
Earlier this month Akamai, a service that hosts data in multiple locations for better web site performance, published some details about some new research on the subject. The first line states a key finding in simple terms:
Four seconds is the maximum length of time an average online shopper will wait for a Web page to load before potentially abandoning a retail site.
I was listening to the net@Night netcast while mowing my lawn and was introduced to a unique service that makes podcasts accessible via a time tested medium.
