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Barnes and Noble SMTP Follies
An order from BarnesAndNoble.com wasn't delivered after 10 days, so yesterday I went to their site to find out why. I found a customer service form, and submitted it with my name, email, order number, etc. I got a confirmation page saying that the issue had been logged. Then, today, ...
Published: September 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Barnes and Noble Dumps Ebooks
Fool.com: Death to eBooks?: Too bad. I've quite gotten to like them. "In a surprise move, Barnesandnoble.com ... has stopped selling eBooks. The online retailer is in the process of e-mailing its affiliates to let them know of the program's demise this week." Via SlashDot.
Published: September 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 971
Comparison Shopping via Camera Phone
Direct Link to Amazon.com for Book Price Shoppers...: How long before camera phones are banned in Barnes and Noble? "'Now, shoppers can take out their Nokia 3650 camera phone at Barnes & Noble, Border's, or just about any other book store, and just take a picture of the ISBN on ...
Published: October 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 937
The Incredible Shrinking Computer Book Section
Let me ask you for your opinion here: do you think that the computer book sections at your local book store are shrinking? Five years ago, the local Barnes and Noble in Sioux Falls had a majestic computer book section. I don t know the official names for these things, but ...
Published: April 20, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 901
New Zealand rugby referee is under attack on Wikipedia
Fans bounty on referee: New Zealand rugby fans are furious with the referee they believe contributed to their surprise loss to France. They ve begun mass-vandalizing the referee s Wikipedia page and using it to post apparent threats and bounties. The entry says Barnes suffers from a vision-related disease which results in ...
Published: October 8, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 852
Bill Camarda And "Read Only"
I have an odd addiction. I just love those little "Read Only" mini-magazines in the computer books section of Barnes & Noble. If you haven't seen them, Barnes & Noble has promotional booklets in every section in which they review new books in that genre. I love the "Read Only" ...
Published: June 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 837
Computer Book Trends
I was in Barnes and Noble tonight, and I noticed a few things. There were four books on the shelves having to do with Mambo and/or Joomla (I refuse to add the exclamation point). This is the first time I've seen books on those systems in my local store. I ...
Published: July 17, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 828
Book Sales as a Language Popularity Indicator
ASP.Net on a Roll: O'Reilly indicates that ASP 2.0 is the hot technology these days. Based on book sales data, it looks like ASP.Net 2.0 is on fire, with ASP-related book sales up 53% since the same period a year ago, versus PHP, down 3%, and JSP, down 25%. Of ...
Published: March 3, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 826
Just a Geek
Just a Geek: I saw this in Barnes and Noble the other day. Has anyone read it? You know, everyone thought Wesley was a whiner, but I liked him. He never got a fair shake. Not everyone can be Kirk.
Published: March 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 811
Adobe Enters eBook Market
Adobe Digital Media Store: Adobe has started selling e-books in order to pump up its PDF format as a viable alternative to formats from Microsoft and Palm. They may be able to fill some of the vacuum left by Barnes and Noble when they left the market.
Published: December 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 798
Buzz Marketing with Blogs
Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies: I found this in Barnes and Noble today. I paged through it -- it actually seemed quite good. Some chapter titles: Checking Out Business Blogs Discovering the Buzz about Buzz Marketing Picking a Blog Solution Setting Up a Hosted Blog Taking Control with Independent ...
Published: October 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 781
Kodak Suffers Under Digital Trend
Kodak struggles to keep up with smaller firms cornering digital market: Here's the story of a company that saw a market trend, but didn't react fast enough to it. Echos of Barnes and Noble. "The change has been too rapid for Kodak to handle. That's why, even though shutterbugs are ...
Published: August 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 781
Open Source Awards
The 2003 OSDir.com Editor's Choice Awards in Open Source: Here's a great survey of all that is good in the open source world. Movable Type made the list for Perl (even though it's not technically open source), and I was surprised to see Ruby in there as a Perl alternative. ...
Published: January 4, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 766
PHP Adoption, Measured in Book Sales
PHP Becoming Mainstream: I've always been fascinating by an analysis of book sales as an indicator of language adoption. My "how much shelf space is it getting at Barnes and Noble" test correctly predicted the ascendance of both Python and Ruby. As such, I find this interesting. We've noticed that ...
Published: April 10, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 752
allconsuming.net
Spending too much time reading weblogs and RSS feeds? Go to All Consuming to see what books are being talked about on the net, then go check something out from the library and take a break from your monitor. All Consuming is a website that visits recently updated weblogs every ...
Published: April 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 742
Steve's Hissy Fit
John Wiley & Sons, publisher of the infamous "For Dummies" tech books, is slated to release an unauthorized biography on Steve Jobs "iCon Steve Jobs : The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business'' and The Steve is not liking it a bit. So in retaliation Apple ...
Published: April 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 734
Free Python Book
Dive Into Python: I'll always post about a free book. I love free books. "Dive Into Python is a free Python book for experienced programmers. You can read the book online, or download it in a variety of formats. It is also available in multiple languages." Incidentally, Python and Zope ...
Published: October 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 733
Ruby Book Sales Soar
Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python: I always thought that a good way to gauge adoption of a language is by the amount of space its books occupy at the local Barnes and Noble. This is sort of the same thing. While I was looking at the data, though, I noticed ...
Published: December 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 711
O'Reilly Safari
Does anyone else use O'Reilly's Safari service? It's an online book library I subscribe to for $10 a month. I get five books on my "bookshelf" at a time. I can read the full text of these books online. A book has to stay on the shelf for 30 days, ...
Published: May 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 708
Email Forms: Slient and Deadly
I really hate email forms, from a developer perspective. Meaning, I hate forms that just email something somewhere and then forget about it. The fact is that email is a horrifically dodgy medium to do anything with. Two-and-a-half years ago, I complained about Barnes and Noble doing this. A customer ...
Published: January 11, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
Hacker Fiction
What is it with the geek novels these days? It all started with Stealing the Network. This book is a novel and security primer rolled up into one. Stealing the Network is a book of science fiction. It's a series of short stories about characters who gain unauthorized access to ...
Published: October 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 644
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