It's become a Christmas tradition for me to serve one of our clients as the last thing I do before going to bed on Christmas Eve.
Every year, the online Thai restaurant at http://www.laddas.com.au closes down for Christmas and reopens a day (sometimes two days) later.
When I close it down and stop customers ordering online, the menu is replaced with a bit of holly and ivy and a Christmas message from the owner (Graham Thompson).
I love this because it is another one of our clients who lets their online business work for them, but not become enslaved to it.
The online restaurant started last century when a larger competitor opened up down the road and Ladda's couldn't expand their seating. Instead, we developed a technology that allowed customers to order from home, with the internet orders faxed straight to the kitchen so the staff could get cooking immediately.
It's proven a great success with an average of 200 order pages faxed through every month.
Speaking of pages, another christmas tradition was trumped by technology this year, with Amazon.com selling more e-books (readable on the Kindle and iPhones etc) than physical printed books.
It's been 2 months since I downloaded my first ebook to a Kindle, and it seems I've got a lot of reading in front of me. Amazon.com has a library of over 390,000 digitised books available for download.
Getting things for free is part of Christmas, right? So if you want to download free ebooks, check out Project Gutenberg. You can keep an eye on the 100 most popular downloads daily. I'm glad to see that Pride & Prejudice made the top 3. And of course, the Charles Dicken's classic, A Christmas Carol, made the top 10.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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