Remembering the Dot Com Era

I was trying to remember the name of this company the other day…
http://avc.blogs.c
om/a_vc/2005/07/cyber_nostalgia.html
Nothing epitomized the dot com era more than Kozmo.com. You could order a
candy bar online and they’d deliver it in an hour. I can’t imagine why this business
model didn’t work.
Oh how I miss the fun and innocence of the late 90’s.

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Redesigning the Wheelchair

When will a designer take on the challenge of making a wheelchair that looks
great? Instead, everywhere you look, they are made of harsh looking metals and
awkward moving parts. It’s wonderful that people are trying to develop a chair
that makes life easier for the handicapped but does it have to look like some
strange robotic gizmo? What [...]

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Web Access from Your Car

The next frontier for web access is from our cars. This has the potential to
drastically change how web developers build sites.
Most automotive manufacturers provide navigation systems with touch screen
displays. Now imagine using the web on this screen. The possibilities of this
technology are endless. You could pull into a drive through and place and pay [...]

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Email Open Rate Decline Continues

Alex Barnett blogs about the continuing decline in email open rates.
http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/06/30/434498.aspx
The worst part about this for email marketers is that this is based on the open
rate. Open rates are a biased number to begin with. You have no idea if the
person read your email or if it popped up in the Outlook preview panel before [...]

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