11 Dec 2005
So yesterday I went into the local La-Z-Boy furniture gallery to look at buying a nice chair.
My requirements weren’t that great, with the only one being the ability to put the chair close to the wall and have it recline fully.
After about 45 minutes of lounging, I selected a nice chair that their computer system said was in stock. Great because there’s a 10 week delay on special orders for any item not in stock.
Everything was going well until they couldn’t find the chair that was supposedly in their warehouse.
I spent a good couple hours in their store eating a couple of cookies and wandering around aimlessly while they searched for the chair. Needless to say it wasn’t found and I went home empty handed and disappointed.
My recommendation to La-Z-Boy and the gallery, get an inventory system that works. I’m not the kind of person that’s willing to wait 10weeks for a special order so there’s a good chance that they’ve lost my business.
09 Dec 2005
From Slashdot…
“The developers at del.icio.us have announced that they were purchased by Yahoo!. From the post: ‘We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we’ll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We’re excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team – they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We’re also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)'” For background on this purchase, carre4 writes “Stuart Maxwell, Jeff Barr, and Yahoo! team’s Jeremy Zawodny recently did an interview explaining What’s so cool about del.icio.us, in which Jeremy gave a non-committal answer about Yahoo acquiring del.ico.us”
Other Sources
ABCNews
del.icio.us Blog
07 Dec 2005
from JoeDuck’s World
I’m getting tired of people explaining how Google will take over the internet and then the world of commerce. This is the nonsense we heard back in 1999….except they were saying AMAZON was going to take over the world.
What’s Amazon? Oh… right…. it’s a book selling site.
I would argue it’s not just a book selling site, it’s the book selling site. When I want to buy I book, I’ll always buy from them. I’ve had good experiences with Amazon in the past and I see no reason the change my buying habits.
I don’t know how many others share the same belief, but I’m probably not in the minority.
With Yahoo now equal in search quality and MSN and AskJeeves equal within months or a year at most, the division of advertising revenues will challenge Google, making it hard to grow faster than the rate offline advertising money pours online.
Likewise with search, when I want to do a search, I’ll always do it in Google and it’s going to take a lot to get me to change. I’m not really a person who runs the search first in google and than runs the same search in msn/yahoo. If I don’t find what I need in Google, I move on and/or re-search with a more exact/broad search query.
I haven’t really dealved much into the localized aspects of each search engine but I do see that as a potentially differentiating quality. It’s still relatively new and seemingly a good source of innovation.