I’ve often wondered why so many U.S. online companies won’t sell to people living in Canada. It’s a smaller market, to be sure, but not trivial, in fact bigger than most U.S. states. I’ve recently discovered a large part of the reason – Canada’s import procedures and tax laws.
Tim’s blog costs a reasonable amount to [...]
I admit to finding it amusing that Barack Obama’s gift to Gordon Brown of 25 classic American movies ended up illustrating one of my hot buttons – Mr. Brown couldn’t watch the Region 1-encoded DVDs on his Region 2 player. Here’s TechDirt’s take on the story (link from Volker Weber).
I have been in many discussions [...]
Tim has a post where he advises developers to contribute to open source projects so that hiring managers will look favourably on them. I have some problems with this, as do many of the commenters on his post.
First off, I agree that contributing to open source projects is admirable and to be encouraged. There [...]
I’m not in marketing, so I’m not going to pontificate on how companies should design the look and feel of their websites, nor on what they should say on their websites. But there are some really basic things that companies should do to make their websites more usable, at least to a first degree.
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Here’s a fascinating piece discussing how fixed prices on books in Germany was actually pushing prices down (contrary to economic theory), while supporting a wide range of booksellers.
When I was last in Germany, apart from my usual beef about German booksellers not taking credit cards, I found no reason to complain about the range [...]
I know why it happened, but it still strikes me as odd, the fact that the goalposts kept moving, as it were, with copyright. And it’s weird no matter whether the copyright is there to give other people rights to use, copy and modify the work, or rights to the author to protect and profit [...]
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