Archive for November, 2006

I Count book on amazon.co.uk

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

“It gives a great excuse to invite a friend to share a bath” - Alistair McGowan in The Independent talking about I Count, a £3 book about ways you can improve your own personal carbon emissions. Our sometime collaborators at Provokateur designed and wrote the book with Stop Climate Chaos. Go buy it from amazon.co.uk.

Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

October saw the Internet reach the mammoth milestone of 100 million Web sites, reported Internet services company Netcraft. “There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them,” said Netcraft’s Rich Miller.  “Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites which are about 47 or 48 million”.

Usability is a brand issue

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

“Three quarters of RAZR users would not buy another Motorola handset because they are difficult to use”. A bad thing for the users becomes a very bad thing for the brand. It’s one thing to work to have an attractive device, such as the RAZR, but if the interface does not live up to the exterior then the whole effort will ultimately fail. A simple lesson, but still one being learnt.

Take a look at the article including results for this Motorola survey by Mobile.