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24 Aug 2003Darwin: Are You Looking in All the Wrong Places? "IDEO has recently recognized the full potential of its network position. By moving among so many small worlds, it has acquired more than just a lot of good objects and ideas. IDEO has also acquired links to a range of vendors, suppliers and manufacturers that are [...]
Jon Udell: "How do you count subscribers in the RSS network? [...] Radio encodes the name/password credentials for these special feeds. As I understand it, this is effectively a group credential shared by all RU users. There’s a relationship between UserLand and the Times, not between individual RU users and the Times. But it’s easy [...]
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24 May 2003Henry Copeland: "Even as advertisers struggle to fill the two dimensional media that is steadily inflating with bigger screens, more page impressions, more titles and more audiences, they must also learn to cope with the emergence of a new, third media dimension — the networks of relationships that manufacture our opinions. Thanks to blogs and [...]
Why don’t these record companies which supposedly "do it all for the promotion of art" provide MIDI files along with records? Why don’t they promote learning, and provide more value to justify their high prices? Hmm. MIDI file, what’s a MIDI file, how do you market that through MTV and Clear Channel? Why don’t they [...]
There’s speculation in a few places that Google might want to allow web sites to ping it when they’re updated. Yes, that would make sense. What would be even more sense is for Google to make us pay for the service. Inclusion in the monthly index would still be free, but if you need real-time [...]
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20 Nov 2002[InternetRetailer: "EBags Inc., one of the survivors among dot-com retailers, is taking a lesson from one of the other major survivors. Last month, upscale luggage manufacturer and retailer Tumi Inc. launched a web site powered by eBags Technology Services, a new subsidiary of online luggage and bag retailer eBags. The launch of Tumi.com marks the [...]
InternetWeek: "Cloudmark, the developer of SpamNet, a community approach to sniffing out junk e-mail, has released an enterprise spam killer engine that identifies unwanted messages by their structure — or spam DNA — rather than by their domains or keywords. Authority, as the engine’s dubbed, blocks spam at the gateway, preventing junk mail from entering [...]
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16 Oct 2002This thread shows some people still don’t understand there’s nothing such as a free lunch. If you want ad-free Socialist Paradise subsidized with Other People’s Money, come to France for a while, this will root out your illusions about how the world should work once and for all. The same people will probably whine about [...]
BusinessWeek: "We think fixed price is important to eBay because it gives sellers and buyers more options. In the second quarter, about 19% of sales were settled through fixed price, and largely that was Buy It Now [an option for immediate, fixed-price purchase]. [...] The kinds of goods that sell on eBay are on both [...]
See the blank white vertical space on the left of their search result page? Wouldn’t a vertical skyscraper banner fit nicely here? I don’t think keyword-based ads would make sense in news (as opposed to web and Usenet searches) but I don’t expect Google to have gone philanthropic. There’s always the "premium sponsorship" horizontal "text [...]
I'm CEO of an online trade publishing firm in the marketing and defense verticals. We try to make news and data digestible and useful in an environment that is more noisy each day. This personal blog mixes my thoughts and interests on politics, business, software, and more, based on my business and personal experiences. Over the years I have posted items that turned out spectacularly wrong, and a few posts that stood the test of times better. Personal views only.