- Expedia deletes one field from their registration process, increases profit $12m
"When visitors see the “Company” field, they were confused. Visitors thought Expedia meant they should put in their Bank name. Users then put their’s Bank’s address into the billing fields. This led to failed transactions, which led to abandons." (conversion usability user_interfaces dopost expedia a_b_testing )
- Fifty Shades of Grey is bad for bondage | Books | The Guardian
"Grey's lack of competency in his chosen erotic arena is most apparent, though, in the way he fails to assess his potential new submissive's naivety. Experienced BDSM practitioners are acutely aware of the gulf between cognoscenti and others, and would not dream of terrifying a novice by bringing up such advanced techniques as fire, electricity and gynaecological play." (books bdsm )
- Samsung’s tablet ‘not as cool as iPad’ | Technology | The Guardian
"The ruling, by Judge Colin Birss, means that Apple cannot stop the import or sale of the Galaxy Tab 10 under claims it has made that the designs are too close to those of the iPad." (tablets dopost legal samsung apple )
- The LIBOR scandal: The rotten heart of finance | The Economist
"Risibly, Bob Diamond, its chief executive, who resigned on July 3rd as a result of the scandal (see article), retorted in a memo to staff that “on the majority of days, no requests were made at all” to manipulate the rate. This was rather like an adulterer saying that he was faithful on most days." (finance banking libor barclays bob_diamond )
- CW500: Jagdeep Singh, head of software development, the Financial Times
Video interviews from Computer Weekly. (dopost software_development interview inter video )
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