mnot’s Web log

Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Friday, November 26 2004

Shop ‘til you Drop

Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he’s saying in private. Roach met...

Wednesday, November 17 2004

What's Going on at Amazon?

I tend to use shopping carts at online stores as to-buy lists; if I'm interested in something, I'll hold it in a shopping cart and muse on it for a while.... Having someone use your site to save their shopping list is a gold mine; you get to see what they're interested in, and they tend to come back to you a whole lot more, because they've built up a lot of state.... Well, Later has apparently come and passed; I've finally made a choice about my next digital camera, and upon adding it to my shopping basket, discovered that -- wait for it -- the camera was the only thing in there.

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Friday, November 5 2004

FYI

For some reason, people are considering a change, such as this one. Might I make another suggestion [pdf].

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