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Over the holidays there seemed to be an abundance of weather-related air travel delays which weren’t too surprising. What did surprise me was the complete shutdown of Comair‘s flights (over 1000 per day), in particular the blame of a computer system fault as the reason for the shutdown. I’ve been curious whether more details would be publicized and it seems like some information is starting to come out. The Cincinnati Post reported yesterday (my emphasis): The computer software that crashed and grounded Comair’s entire fleet on Christmas Day was an antiquated system due to be replaced in the coming months.…
Joel Spolsky — in his usual combination of good sense and humor — this week put out Camels and Rubber Duckies which tries to answer the question “How much should I charge for my software?”. As Joel warns up front, you’ll learn a lot more about pricing but still won’t know how much to charge. In a straightforward path, Joel leads to the idea of segmentation, or charging different customers different prices. Airline tickets are the classic example of such segmentation, but it doesn’t seem to work as well in the software business. Joel includes some good arguments against site…
Eric Sink’s latest columns is up on MSDN: Finding a Product Idea for Your Micro-ISV. Eric has been writing a monthly column for MSDN from the perspective of an independent software vendor. He started using the term “Micro-ISV” to mean a software company with just one person. In this month’s column, he points out among other things that someone beat him to it and register the microisv.com domain name. But, at least a growing community has formed there with some useful information and pointers to other blogs. The focus this month is finding product ideas for your newly-founded single-person adventure.…
Yesterday Yahoo! launched a video search service as a beta. It works like you’d expect: you can search for videos! The Yahoo! Search Blog has more of the background about this new service. What’s more interesting to me is a new draft RSS spec called Media RSS: “Media RSS” is a new RSS module that supplements the enclosure capabilties of RSS 2.0. RSS enclosures are already being used to syndicate audio files and images. Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, as well as provide additional metadata with the media. Media RSS…