July 2008
5 posts
How not to launch a web service
This weeks edition of Critic magazine featured a full page advertisement for The Racket on the rear cover. That’s prime advertising space seen by almost 20,000 students. The Racket is apparently a personalised internet radio service, the likes of which have been rare on the internet lately due to licencing issues. I still sorely miss Pandora. As stated in the advertisement: “The power...
“Life passes most people by while they’re making grand plans for it”
The Mojave Experiment
Microsoft employees visited vocal XP users in San Franciso who refused to upgrade to Vista. They presented them with a new operating system called Mojave and videotaped their reactions. 90% of participants gave positive feedback.
They were then told that Mojave was in fact Vista. Read the full article here.
The last three weeks
A busy few weeks, the highlights were:
The snowboarding trip was a grand success. Ben wrote about it here. I posted my photos on Facebook.
I watched 30,000 Jaffas roll down Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world, as part of the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival. Baldwin Street also made it to the front page of Digg.com on Monday.
I started learning Java. I know a fair bit about computers but...
June 2008
20 posts
