July 2009
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“Sometimes she looks like a primary-school girl.”
– Clinton Presses for Support as Pyongyang Hurls Scorn - WSJ.com
North Korea is this petty.
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“Galápagos syndrome”
– Why Japan’s Smartphones Haven’t Gone Global - NYTimes.com
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Bad Moods At Work →
from Forbes.com
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“But hey, in the end, this is another way to order food without having to...”
– Pizza Hut’s iPhone App Makes Pizza Ordering Easier, More Gimmicky - Pizza Hut - Gizmodo
This sorta quote, found on Gizmodo, is a telling sign of someone’s age.
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Microsoft Opening Shops Right Next to Apple Stores... →
In terms of war, this is the best kind. In terms of business strategy, this is the worst kind.
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“And while Verizon is romancing developers, the carrier isn’t as solicitous of...”
– Verizon to Mobile Developers: Can You Hear Me Now?
Brilliant plan, what could go wrong by consolidating four different platforms and forcing half-dozen manufactures and thousands of app developers to get in on the Verizon API?
What’s better, AT&T’s crappy service backed by Apple or...
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How many firms in the world could do something...
Not many, for the ones that can, they certainly should.
With more than 20,000 followers on Twitter, Virgin America is galvanizing a vibrant and active community of people who will respond in “Twitter time,” thus alleviating the modest team from having to engage in every discussion, whether it’s positive or negative. The most common example Porter shared was a response to the question, “Should I...
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economic demands and community management: Emusic... →
@xiaochang has excellent points about respecting your community while chaning service level agreements. Tough with music startups when they are especially at the mercy of the labels.
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Wal-Mart's Twitter Account Comes with a 3,379-word... →
I call it interactive lawyering
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Skin Deep - Do Women Like Men Quite That... →
This is advertising at its finest: solving a problem that wasn’t necessarily a problem.
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Why Did Twice As Many People Play Dead Space As... →
Kotaku has a nice write up on using paid downloadable content and online play to increase the game play of a new intellectual property video game.
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Software that spots hidden networks: Electronic... →
Email snoopers on corporate networks are sniffing to see if groups of employees are engaging in illicit behaviors but it also seems to be a bit intrusive with false-positives.
Right now we’re in a situation where anything in email is pretty much fair game, how long until everything typed is fair game?
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LinkedIn v freemasons: Joining the club | The... →
Digital networks and old networks, quite a difference and yet, both will surely live on.
Nevertheless, the old structures will not fall away soon. Indeed, Mr Serfaty argues that online networks can reinforce offline ones. A graduate of HEC (École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris) might use the school’s own website to look for any alumni working at, say, Google, he says. But using Viadeo’s...