User experience guru Andy Budd and why businesses with websites that are usable, and user friendly, will have an edge over competitors with not so easy to use websites. Well, first off, most websites are incredibly inefficient and converting customers, and can you blame them? Up until now it's all been about volume rather than efficiency. As such sites are littered with usability problems that literally block your clients ... Read full entry

Not that it makes the realisation any easier to grapple with, but as Charles Stross points out, the current economic slow-down is the first one we have seen in a truly internet-age world: We've never actually seen a true global recession in a Web 2.0 world. What's it going to look like? How is it going to differ from a recession in a pre-internet world? Is it going to ... Read full entry

A collection of advisory videos offering tips for making it through the current economic slowdown. To be taken with a pinch of salt... if you can afford it, that is. It seems you can't turn on your television, listen to the radio, or read the newspaper these days without hearing some new story about another bank collapse or whole neighborhoods getting decimated by foreclosures. We hate to ruin your ... Read full entry

Tech feels first pinch of global downturn While not everyone's favourite Tech company, Microsoft shares are a good bet in times of looming recession and economic downturn. Although it certainly has a large enterprise business, Microsoft may still be a good bet in uncertain times, Jeffries analyst Katherine Egbert said in a research note on Monday. "Seek safety in Microsoft's numbers," Egbert said, noting that, following its recent decline, Microsoft ... Read full entry