February 18, 2001
Crypto-Gram: Hard-Drive-Embedded Copy Protection.
Bruce Schneier. So, what do we have here? We have a serious threat to civil liberties: large entertainment companies are allying themselves with the computer industry to dictate what can and can't happen on your hard drive.
Useit.Com: Success Rate: The Simplest Usability Metric.
In addition to being expensive, collecting usability metrics interferes with the goal of gathering qualitative insights to drive design decisions. As a compromise, you can measure users' ability to complete tasks. Success rates are easy to understand and represent usability's bottom line.
Business 2.0: Metricom on the Ropes.
The Ricochet service is currently available in 15 markets nationwide, with construction under way in an additional 31 markets. By the end of 2000, the company had signed up only about 12,000 new subscribers--falling far short of analyst expectations.
Lighthouse: Online economics 2001: Davids win, Goliaths lose.
Daniel Rutter. The clincher, the simple point, the open secret that nobody in a major media organisation with a Web arm - which is all of them - ever mentions, is that sites with a very small staff and none of the big-company overheads can compete very effectively with a large number of the major-leaguers.
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