Keep your friends close, and your Quechup far away. Over the weekend, I received a couple of spam invites from Quechup, “the social network platform sweeping the globe”. Or was that weeping? Said invites were immediately followed by apology e-mails from the senders, who never intended to spam anyone.
To the senders: Don’t sweat it. Not your fault Quechup decided to misappropriate your address book.
To Quechup: May your user base dwindle to naught.
If you can’t beat them, go someplace else. Motorola’s new strategy:
- Ignore the iPhone.
I personally wouldn’t mind a basic phone that just works, and it doesn’t have to look flashy or play MP3s, so I’m half sold on “just be boring”. But really, it’s just bad product design, and bad product design is not a business strategy: it’s a P1 bug.
Buy the rumor, sell the news. Best summary of how to trade APPL stock.
Details. You think it will take a few years to measure and collect enough data in order to analyze the annual cost-of-ownership for a piece of software. Apparently, you’re wrong:
Microsoft released details of a study it commissioned that found that total cost of ownership for Windows Vista on mobile PCs is $605 less annually than Windows XP.
Other details of the study:
Peculiarly, the study actually was based on XP usage and extrapolations based on Vista capabilities because there was not a substantial base of Vista clients in use yet when the study was done early in 2007.
Phew. Who needs details when you can pay for a study.
Firequark. If you’re using ScrAPI, take note of this. Most likely you’ll have to fumble a bit finding the right CSS selector to find an element on the page. You can also just use Firequark:
Firequark automatically extracts css selector for a single or multiple html node(s) from a web page using Firebug (a web development plugin for Firefox). The css selector generated can be given as an input to html screen scrapers like Scrapi to extract information.