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Designing ROI. Madhouse Munchies generates $500,000 a year selling chips. Madhouse Munchies hires R.BIRD to redesign their packaging. “In six months, with no new advertising, Madhouse was selling about 50 more bags of chips a month in every store. By year’s end its chips were in 1,000 new retail locations, and today, with the same… Continue reading Designing ROI

Defining a Baseline Audit Policy. It's vital that you create a baseline audit policy to audit for security events on critical systems. Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, helps you define the best audit policies for Windows Server 2003 server roles. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

You're Genuine, Ready or Not. Today, Microsoft made mandatory its Windows Genuine Advantage program. Mandatory means that many Windows users will have to validate their software to get updates or other software from Microsoft. No validation, no software. Windows Update will still fetch security updates … [Microsoft Monitor]

Blinksale: Do your Rails invoices in a Rails app. Now that you’ve made it out of the ghetto and joined the hundreds of professional Rails programmers making a living enjoying your work life, you’ll need an invoice system to match. Blinksale might just be what you need. It’s a snazzy Ruby on Rails application by… Continue reading Blinksale: Do your Rails invoices in a Rails app

Wil Shipley. The Drunken Blog interviews Wil Shipley, formerly of Omni, now of Delicious Monster. Lots of good stuff in there, about how Omni is on its way down the tubes and how he wrote the nifty video-camera-barcode-scanning stuff in Delicious Library. [Ceejbot]

Side-Business Software: The neglected software market. The most innovative software designed over the next 10 years will 1. be web-based, 2. will come from small teams, 3. will come from self-funded companies, and 4. will be for the “side-business” or 1-10 person business market. The “long tail” is a buzzword. What’s real are the millions… Continue reading Side-Business Software: The neglected software market

Why the big teams can't hit the right notes. Joel hits a high note himself documenting the 1:10 productivity difference between crap and rock star programmers in Hitting the High Notes. But what’s even more interesting about his argument is the thesis that its not just about productivity, it’s about making a different class of… Continue reading Why the big teams can't hit the right notes

Chillin' with Trillian. If you're planning on offering instant messaging reference services at your library using Trillian as the chat aggregator (and LiB recommends that you do), check out Beatrice Pulliam's training materials on Trillian.  … [LibrarianInBlack]

Wiki your library. Michael Stephens makes an excellent recommendation for all libraries: make sure your library is listed in Wikipedia under your town/county/state. It's really easy to edit an entry to add a link to your library's website … [LibrarianInBlack]

Useit.Com: Amazon: No Longer the Role Model for E-Commerce Design. For many years, that one thing in e-commerce design was “Do like Amazon.” No more. Amazon has recently changed so much that the average e-commerce site will reduce its usability by emulating its design too closely. [Tomalak's Realm]