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The meaning of Web cartography (see May 28th, not a permalink) "My thoughts begin with the question, "Is the Web mappable?" or, more generally, "Are information spaces mappable?" Maps represent… Read more »

How Yahoo! Japan Beat eBay at Its Own Game "Yahoo Japan–the country’s largest portal–has 95% of the online-auction market, where last year $1.6 billion worth of goods were traded. By… Read more »

Q&A with eBay CEO Meg Whitman "Whitman: The biggest threat that I saw from both Amazon and Yahoo was: Were they going to figure out how to focus on the… Read more »

Robert X. Cringely: “The argument against it has always been that it costs VISA 25 cents to bill someone, so there’s no way to bill for micropayments. But surely there… Read more »

Web Voice is back online The problems with Blogspot are now solved.

Why Acquisitions Fail "Picture this, you are one of 600 firms in your software industry niche, and you decide to sell the company. You are thinking

Lucked Company So everyone’s not fucked after all? Will a more balanced point of view raise the level of intelligence demonstrated in the forums? Most people that post at Fuckco… Read more »

Enter the Decentralized Zone "The IT workers of any organization larger than 50 people are now in an impossible situation: They are rewarded for negative events-no crashes or breeches-even as… Read more »

The Internet is Not Television "The genesis of this essay as a letter to an editor of Wired Magazine in which I observed that there were serious errors of fact… Read more »

The Inktomi Search Engine: From wired to tired "The fundamental problems with the Inktomi search engine all stem from its roots. The fact is that Inktomi is not a search… Read more »