Boo.com—The path to failure

Stockport, Gary; Kunnath, George J.; Sedick, Rashida

doi:10.1002/dir.1023

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“…In the area of e-commerce, there is a common understanding that waiting time impedes increasing online commerce (Nielson 1999;Rose et al 1999;Ryan and Valverde 2003;Stockport et al 2001), although the authors do not agree on concrete metrics. Due to the fact that in our Tor usability experiment latency has to be classified and finally quantified, we need to define metrics to measure when users cancel their Web page request or in other words, how long users tolerate waiting for a request.…”

Section: Latency As Usability Factormentioning

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Privately Waiting – A Usability Analysis of the Tor Anonymity Network

Fabian

Goertz

Kunz

et al. 2010

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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As the Internet is increasingly absorbing information from the real world it becomes more important to prevent unauthorized collection and abuse of personalized information. At the same time, democratic societies should establish an environment helping not only their own people but also people who face repressive censorship to access public information without being identified or traced. Internet anonymization tools such as Tor offer functionalities to meet this demand.In practice, anonymization of Internet access can only be achieved by accepting higher latency, i.e., a longer waiting time before a Web site is displayed in the browser, and therefore reducing its usability significantly. Since many users may not be willing to accept this loss of usability, they may refrain from or stop using Tor -at the same time decreasing the anonymity of other users, which depends on shared resources in the Tor user community. In this paper 1 , we quantify the loss of usability by measuring the additional latency of the Tor software and combine our measurements with metrics of the existing Web usability and performance literature. Our findings indicate that there is still a major usability gap induced by Tor, leading to its possible disuse accompanied by a higher risk exposure of Internet users.

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Section: Latency As Usability Factormentioning

confidence: 99%

Privately Waiting – A Usability Analysis of the Tor Anonymity Network

Fabian

Goertz

Kunz

et al. 2010

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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“…Stockport et al, 2001). In real life, multiple unverified assumptions are often operating simultaneously, and each of them may be either known or unknown.…”

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Entrepreneurial learning and the role of venture capitalists

2007

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This paper develops a model of entrepreneurial learning in order to explain how VCs support the process of entrepreneurial learning and thereby add value to their ventures. We draw on two generic approaches to learning, termed the hypothesis-testing mode and the hermeneutic mode, which turn out to be closely interrelated in such learning processes. The resulting model comprises four categories, which focus on what entrepreneurs learn and how it is learnt: experimentation, evaluation, unreflective action and unverified assumptions. We then use these analytical categories to illustrate how VCs apply their different forms of expertise to increase a venture's value once an investment has been made.

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“…Artists or IT professionals may build pages according to creative whim, blindly deciding the number of links on a page, the type and style of links, format for information, positioning on the page of various elements and use of images. The demise of Boo.com, for example, illustrates fashion rather than function driving the design process (Stockport, Kunnath, & Sedick, 2001). …”

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Using Server Log Files and Online Experiments to Enhance Internet Marketing

Hofacker¹,

Murphy²

Contemporary Research in E-Marketing, Volume 1

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Boo.com—The path to failure

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Privately Waiting – A Usability Analysis of the Tor Anonymity Network

Privately Waiting – A Usability Analysis of the Tor Anonymity Network

Entrepreneurial learning and the role of venture capitalists

Using Server Log Files and Online Experiments to Enhance Internet Marketing

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