Andrew Duff

Go to www.introducingmonday.co.uk for a great illustration fo how the internet can humble even the most serious of “brands”.

When PWC Consulting changed their name to Monday, they registered every name with anything vaguely related to their new Monday “brand”, as large corporates are wont to do. This included www.introducingmonday.com , but unfortunately they forgot about www.introducingmonday.co.uk …

Heheheh

Andy

P.S. This is why big corporates *hate* the idea of new domain name extensions such as .shop, .club, .mp3, .family or whatever – if there was a .family extension in the official domain name system you can bet who would claim they had rights to http://www.mcdonalds.family – yes, that’s right, Ronald and his proud burgers, rather than Morag McDonald and her 43 offspring in the Hebrides…

My friends Charles and Ruth Simspon have quit the London race-for-success-through-accounting-irregularities and moved to Languedoc to run a vineyard. They have the support and advice of top wine man in the region James Herrick so they’re worth watching. Here’s their first review.

I just helped my sister-in-law in her search for the right flatbed scanner for her home-based printing company. You might be interested in the places I use when I am shopping online for computer equipment.

1. Goldfish Guides is a fantastic comparison shopping service for home appliances, home entertainment and home computer equipment. [Goldfish are a Credit Card company that are building a bank and are part of the Centrica Group (which includes the AA, British Gas and One.Tel). They’re a really smart consumer-based company – I just hope they can keep being consistently good in all their companies.]

2. Jungle and DABS are the companies I would use for actually buying equipment. Of these two, DABS provides a really useful comparison service which probably gives them the edge in my view.

3. Although I haven’t typically gone direct to the manufacturers, I am starting to – take a look here for Dell’s direct site. It’s waaaaay cheaper generally, although you obviously don’t get the comparison benefits.