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My eBusiness Strategy Consulting website.

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Yesterday, Belmont Club's Wretchard bloged about the ongoing move and countermove between automation, privacy and criminal activity.

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ShuffleBrain's Amy Jo Kim blogs about social and game architecture. I don't remember how anymore, but I recently came across her presentation on applying game mechanics to functional software. It's an excelent read on using such game mechanics as Collecting, Points, Levels, Feedback, Exchanges and Customization to make functional applications more engaging.

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There are already enough blogs and articles out there about the pros and cons of Apple's new iPhone, lawsuits and trademarks aside. I'll point to some below. While the iPhone is revolutionary in a way, it's really more evolutionary. Just about every major feature has been around for a while. But to Apple's credit, they were the first to figure out how to put them together into a great

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Tom Spring reviews his experience trying to cancel online services. It would seem that some etailers view their customer relationships as either "till death do us part" or as a hostage standoff. Either approach is pretty detrimental to trust or to good word of mouth. Recommendation - if your business model includes subscriptions or regular reordering, give users an option of a one-time orders (

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The term Mission Creep originated in military and public service industries. In software development, it refers to the expansion of a system to a mission beyond its original objectives. Note that this is different from Scope Creep:1. Scope Creep refers to adding new features or specifications to an previously defined project. For example, adding new bells and whistles - unanticipated by project

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Fred Brooks' 1975 book, The Mythical Man-Month stated that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." His famous analogy is that "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned." Brooks' Law is sometimes mistakenly taken to mean that more resources can't deliver a project faster. That was not what Brooks meant, although it is true - for each

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Hofstadter's Law claims that "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." Similarly, the Planning Fallacy refers to the tendency to underestimate completion times for complex and inter-related tasks. In my experience, the problem is not so much the underestimation of discrete tasks, but the underestimation of all other related tasks and events. For

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I recently filled a prescription, and experienced firsthand Target's much-touted new prescription labels. Although I am only a test case of one, and not in the high-risk group, my personal experience confirmed the design's expectations. I found relevant information easier and faster to read and understand, and found it easier to pick out the right meds from a crowded cabinet.Misdosing and

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A previous post noted how the Denver Post misspelled Donald Rumsfeld's name on the front page of the Sunday edition. Today they misspelled the name of Qwest Corp on the front page of the business section. Qwest is one of the largest employers in the area, and frequently featured in both the business section and the general news sections.A couple of observations:It's clear that over-reliance on

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On Dec 16 1960, United flight 826 collided with TWA flight 266 over Staten Island, NY. Everyone on board the two planes (128 people) were killed, in addition to 6 people on the ground when flight 826 crashed into the neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Like most disasters, it was not caused by a single catastrophic event, but by a series of events that compounded the situation:Radar service was

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er quarter... er dollar..oh never mind...The first Susan B Anthony Dollar entered circulation Dec 14 1978. Somewhere along the way, basic design requirements were either ignored or not fully understood.Its resounding failure stemmed from the fact that in size, color and edge texture it was so indistinguishable from the quarter-dollar. The design originally called for it to be not round, but

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The Denver Post misspelled Donald Rumsfeld's name......in the Sunday edition......on a sub-headline.......on the front page above the fold. No corrections or explanations yet.You can see many more newspaper QC errors at:RegretTheError.comLearning how the media gathers, writes, edits and distributes its stories can be as scary as learning how sausages are made.

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The Denver Post recently published an article describing the ill effects felt by visitors to the Denver Art Museum's unusual architecture. Apparently the architect agreed with the quote that "art is made to disturb." The unusual angles of the walls, ceilings, and - yes - staircases cause congitive confusion within a physical 3D space, causing dizzynes and other forms of physical discomfort.The

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