I was trying to figure out today why most of the softwares we use everyday aren’t really customer oriented. I mean, I’m pretty sure 50% of the softwares you use do the job, but aren’t really that pleasant to use. So why it that? Well, the answer is quite simple: most software engineers don’t learn [...]
Computers
Web bots – There’s no magic
This is a follow-up to my previous article about the web bot. In that article, I briefly explained what the web bots are and if they were able to predict anything. I strongly suggest you read the article but it’s not a prerequisite to this article. In that first web bot post, I made a [...]
The future of Internet Advertising
I posted an article about the future of Internet advertising on my technology blog Adopt A Packet and I think it might be of interest for a lot of persons at Daily Common Sense. Internet Advertising has reached a certain limit and Google experienced it recently. They’ve recorded a drop in the number of clicks [...]
Introducing my new blog – Adopt A Packet
Just to let you know that I’ve launched a new blog: Adopt A Packet. It’s mostly aimed at techies and there’s little chances of you enjoying it if you’re not in the computer industry! It’s funny stories about the inside life of packets. Anyway, check this out. It’s fresh from today so there’s not much [...]
FBI is in your computer
Still while browsing today I came across this interesting post: If you can adequately outline what this program does, please email me, X@X.com. The entire program runs 41 single spaced pages, too large for here, but I’ll gladly upload entirety to all takers. I believe it is evidence of illegal FBI data harvesting from ALL [...]
Why Google succeed where Microsoft fails
Google Google was recently named the best company to work for by Fortune magazine in 2008, has been showing an enormous growth for the past years and seems to do everything right without a single mistake. Of course they don’t, but what’s their secret to success? What’s right with Google business model? There’s a lot [...]
Web Bot – What is it? Can it predict stuff?
There’s been some sort of hype lately regarding the Web Bots and I’m really surprised there’s almost no information about it available. The Web Bot project was developed in the late 1990s mainly to predict the stock market ups and downs (Web bot and stock markets). How do they do it? It’s really simple in [...]
Apple’s Steve Wozniak “Work alone” inspiration
I recently read the book iWoz from Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple inc. For people not even knowing there was a co-found at Apple (That’s right there’s not only Steve Jobs), well he’s the one who built the first personal computer. He’s not at Apple anymore and he quit a long time ago but his [...]