Book Promotion—Harder Than Writing the Book

Recently I bought two non-fiction books after I heard about them—the first one through a TV appearance and the second when the author spoke at a conference I attended. I must confess that until recently I have not done much...

Posted on: 15 June 2005 | 6:24 pm

Google Subscriptions Someday?

I guess online businesses can make money three ways—transactions (buying/selling something), advertisements (pay per click), and subscriptions (monthly fees). What amazes me is that the pay-per-click advertising model works so well for search engines like Google. As for me, I...

Posted on: 14 June 2005 | 7:19 pm

Blog Search Engine—Technorati Beta

Visitors often reach blogs through search engines and mine is no exception. The only surprise, at least to me, was that when it comes to searches that landed someone on my blog, it seems to be about 50-50 between Google...

Posted on: 13 June 2005 | 2:54 pm

"YOU: The Owner's Manual" Lives up to the Hype

By now you have probably heard about YOU: The Owner's Manual—a best-selling guide to your body, written in an entertaining style by two physicians, Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. I noticed that this morning the book...

Posted on: 11 June 2005 | 1:39 pm

Can MDA Play a Role in Global Sourcing of Software?

I like the idea of model driven architecture (MDA) as a software design and development tool because in involves modeling the software and then generating code with the help of tools. I don't know if MDA is widely used yet,...

Posted on: 9 June 2005 | 8:56 pm

Shouldn't Ebook Pricing Model Be Different From Print Books?

I must confess that until I began to blog, I had not paid much attention to ebooks. Now that I have been checking out ebook news and availability of ebooks, what I hadn't known is that over the past two...

Posted on: 8 June 2005 | 8:42 pm

Model Driven Architecture—What is it?

Although Model Driven Architecture (MDA) has architecture in its name, MDA is not at the same level of abstraction as Enterprise Architecture (EA), rather MDA is a software design methodology. MDA was developed by an industry consortium called Object Management...

Posted on: 7 June 2005 | 3:29 pm

Another Ebook Benefit—No Returns!

Last Friday's Wall Street Journal had a front-page article on the insidious problem of "returns" in the print book publishing world. Because book retailers can return unsold books, even successful titles can end up with tons of returns if the...

Posted on: 6 June 2005 | 2:44 pm

Preview of Latest Microsoft Start

I had tried out the two versions of Microsoft's online RSS aggregator/reader—http://www.start.com/1/ and http://www.start.com/2/ a while back and now there's a third preview version of Microsoft Start that combines various features from the previous two versions. To try the preview...

Posted on: 5 June 2005 | 10:12 am

Microsoft's New eHow-tos

I thought adding animations, if not full videos, would be a good idea for computer ebooks. As it so happens, Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) has recently introduced what they call eHow-tos—multimedia documentation on various Windows software development topics. They are...

Posted on: 3 June 2005 | 7:22 am