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1:37 pm on March 12, 2007 |
The staff here at Fusion Bay read a lot of blogs. A few we read are written by popular Venture Capitalists — not because we’re looking for investments, but because they’re interesting to read and seem to have breaking news about new web services and technology companies.
I came across an article today on “
The Penny Gap” which I thought was worth a mention: It talks about consumer based web applications and the difference in free vs paid-subscription revenue models.The article talks about the negative trend of price vs adoption… the more you charge, the fewer subscriptions you receive. That seems logical: fewer consumers can afford your service the more expensive it is. But I wonder: Is there a price point that might increase your adoption? Will more consumers subscribe to something priced higher because they perceive it as higher quality? Or are higher quality things just more expensive?
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5:41 pm on February 8, 2007 |
Form validation is vital to every web based application, and too often I’ve seen it implemented page-by-page. Custom code blocks to check for email address formats, telephone numbers, social security numbers, etc.
If you need client-side form validation and you can rely on javascript, I highly recommend Andrew Tetlaw’s “
Really easy field validation.” It does require
prototype.js and of course, java script enabled browsing.I’ve written a few additional validators that I’ll post sometime soon for anyone that might be interested.