retail therapy
The internet is insecure.
“Thousands of online stores running Adobe Commerce and Magento software have been hacked starting this summer and infected with digital payment skimmers.” ~ learn more
Tag: internet
fun facts
The Cuban internet comes on a weekly hard drive.
“El Paquete Semana. The weekly packet. A one-terabyte hard-drive loaded with a week’s worth of American movies, shows, music, magazines, and even smartphone apps.” ~ learn more
on the blockchain
Are you ready for the Finternet?
“The bottleneck lies in the very architecture of how value is transferred from one customer to another — as messages flowing between trusted intermediaries. Supplanting it with a superior design will be less like replacing carrier pigeons with telegrams, and […]
tech, startups, internet
Time sinks and money sinks.
“To dramatically oversimplify the internet, every product on the Internet is just one of two things…” I didn’t realize it at the start of my career, but one reason lots of other businesses didn’t make sense to me is because […]
tech, startups, internet
Are we watching the internet die?
Here’s a very opinionated piece worth reading. The author, Ed Zitron, is not a fan of the content created by generative AI. “[The internet executives’] ideal situation isn’t one where you visit distinct websites with content created by human beings, […]
fun facts
Brandolini’s law is the worst part of the internet.
“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.” ~ learn more
retail therapy
What happens to all the stuff we return?
Here’s a well-researched piece about the reverse logistics industry. “A century ago, the average return rate at Penney’s was probably something like two per cent; before Internet shopping truly took hold, retail returns had risen to more like eight or […]
better doing
Robo-coaches are here.
Sure, the advice that an AI chatbot offers can be found elsewhere on the internet in blogs, books and podcasts. Yet this new format for interacting with the advice might just be better for many uses. “At risk of sounding […]
fun facts
Bill Gates explains the internet to Dave Letterman in 1995.
He also tries to convince Dave to get a computer. | learn more
fun facts
The Onion files an Amicus brief with the Supreme Court.
It seems some district court made the imprudent decision of requiring a disclaimer before any parody content on the internet. The Onion decided to weigh in. | learn more