FlyZoom Bust, Could it have been avoided?

The morning after, confusion still abound and FlyZoom passengers still stranded in the UK, Canada and elsewhere. The demise of the discount airline has affected many hoping to get away on vacation, visit family and friends or travel for work. But looking back could the airline have avoided going out of business? Continue reading »

The Evolution of the Backbone

So for the last week or so I have been getting some interesting feedback by two nameless people on the Herald website (S2K and LimitBreaker) and seriously I have to say that while I enjoy the feedback, these two are clueless and totally missing the plot. Continue reading »

Scrabulous gone… In North America

Over the last few weeks we have all been reading about the legal action being taken against the creators of Scrabulous and while yes they were infringing on the copyright of another company, I think Hasbro could have handled the situation much better. And yes Scrabulous was breaking the law, I know that! But if your going to potentially piss off 500,000+ people I think the costs and options need to be analyzed. Something Hasbro thought about after shutting Scrabulous down. Continue reading »

The next level of search and Cuil is not it!

Not sure if the post title is appropriate however this post will be looking at search and when I say search I mean the web based stuff.

Now for the last couple of days I’ve been hearing and reading about Cuil.com and its enormous index, however I think they totally missed the mark and blundered their own launch. While they are touting their ability to collect data, they somehow forgot about presenting the data in a relevant manner. Current searches on the Cuil.com site are terrible and in some cases irrelevant, The results layout is terrible and they basically have managed to trip running out of the gate. Continue reading »

A fractured system

Alright, Yesterday I had numerous meetings and for the most part they were all great meetings with intelligent people. Discussions about business, the Tech Open and our industry representation and this is where I get the inspiration for my blog post. Continue reading »