http://www.lk9.se words about web, design and strategy Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:04:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting post about how robots are increasing efficiency at retail warehouses. Apart from that it's a little too close to an informercial for Kiva, the robot maker, there are some interesting facts about the development of warehouses in general. For example how long the order to shipping process takes: The Zappos ... http://www.lk9.se/2009/01/28/warehouse-robots/ Dogster's reply to the closing of pets.yahoo.com. Good stuff. It’s a shame really. Yahoo, for all it’s management failings, is one of the truly great people-positive brands. There’s so much they could have done with pets.yahoo.com if they hadn’t been floundering the last 3 years. But what’s worse is there’s so ... http://www.lk9.se/2009/01/28/the-voice-of-dogster/ Tomorrow at noon 24 hour business camp kicks off. An admirable event organized by Ted and includes 90 great internet peeps trying to build a product in 24 hours. Some of the ideas have already been presented on the blog (of course there's a liveblog and a backchannel), it will ... http://www.lk9.se/2009/01/21/the-le-mans-of-hacking/ Click to view larger image. This morning I went to the cobbler to pick up a couple of pairs that finally had recieved some much needed love. When I stood there waiting I snapped a photo of the store. When looking at the photo, it reminded me of something ... http://www.lk9.se/2009/01/17/patina-value/ From the blog of the upcoming book Building web 2.0 reputation systems we learn why everyone on Orkut is Brazilian: In the earliest days of Orkut (Google’s also-ran entry into social networking), the property managers featured a fun little widget at the top of the site: a country-counter, showing members’ geographical ... http://www.lk9.se/2009/01/05/nationality-on-social-networks/ For quite some time I've been annoyed by the Swedish catalogue company Eniro (basically the Swedish Yellow pages), mainly because they continuously fail to understand the medium they operate in. Hence they'll have to act as an example of a company that rather heavily relies on internet revenue (30% of ... http://www.lk9.se/2009/01/02/eniro-is-lost-in-translation/ Both of these companies are right now having different kinds of momentum. Joost just killed their desktop application to refocus on a web only presence, while Boxee just closed a series A round of financing and is getting ready to leave the alpha stage. Boxee motto is to open up the ... http://www.lk9.se/2008/12/23/joost-should-have-been-boxee/ Great presentation from Matt Jones & Russel Davies. A lot of interesting projects are being discussed about making the invisible visible and using existing resources to create something new. It's from the DO Lectures, have yet to go through the other videos but it looks promising. http://www.lk9.se/2008/10/10/doing-things-with-matt-and-russel/ If information overload is a constant problem, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact. Clay Shirky at the Web 2.0 conference, great as always. http://www.lk9.se/2008/09/25/filter-failure/ A couple of weeks ago I stumbled upon a post by Vimeo’s community manager Dallas Verdugo showing how this video that had been published a year and a half ago had gotten, at that point, 90% of it’s traffic in the last 4 days. I.e. the web is not traditional ... http://www.lk9.se/2008/09/24/latency-everywhere/