Thinking Before Blogging

You Have Four Seconds Left

A visitor hits your retailing website and waits, and waits, and by the time you finish reading this sentence, she's back to the SERPs to find a better site than yours.

The Law, Microsoft, And ISPs

A couple of legally-tinged topics consider whether Microsoft's pledge not to assert patents against developers as part of its Novell deal actually do what they say, while a British lawyer contends Internet service providers should be liable when a denial of service (DoS) attack takes a website offline.

Crayon Colors Outside the Lines

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have thrived on the concept of providing a completely autonomous virtual world. With the prospect of such a captive audience plugged in to a digital community, marketers are looking for new, more socially relevant ways to showcase their products