Color Bars uploaded to Flickr by jigpu
The colors you choose for your website affect how much your visitors like your website. You probably could have guessed that, though. It turns out that cooler primary colors make websites appear more orderly to users, which in turn can lead to users thinking that your site is more [...]
Today, the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce is unveiling their new personality to the world - They are hip and ready to rock!
Who will be there: Local Michigan business leaders, politicians, and techie types growing companies just under your radar - like us! Based on networking with these people offline and [...]
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. In the novel, Whuffie, or social cash, is a constantly updated rating that measures how much esteem and respect other people have for you, and replaces money. It determines who [...]
Domain names are a kind of company collateral; they are an extremely inexpensive way to collect terms or phrases that might be useful in the future, even if they are not of value now. At an average price of $10 for uncontested .com domain names plus a low annual maintenance fee, spending a few hours [...]
Can Borders take on Amazon? Borders recently parted ways with Amazon and started their own online store. This move allows Borders to shape their own online identity and to stop enriching their competitor. However, can Borders be successful on their own?
Amazon is not successful only because they sell a whole lot of stuff. Certainly, they [...]
A few days ago, I read an article in the New York Times, The Humans Behind the Google Money Machine, and a quote continues to linger with me: “I wouldn’t quite go so far as to say we are recession-proof,” said Hal R. Varian, Google’s chief economist. “But we are recession-resistant.”
In the article, this [...]