Showing posts with label marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marketing. Show all posts
24 November 2013

Dutch Telcos Used Customer Metadata, Retained To Fight Terrorism, For Everyday Marketing Purposes

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One of the ironies of European outrage over the global surveillance conducted by the NSA and GCHQ is that in the EU, communications metad...
07 October 2011

Microsoft's $844 Million Software Giveaway To Nonprofits: Pure Charity Or Cheap Marketing?

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Microsoft has just released its 2011 Annual Financial Report . But alongside that document's dry facts about its $69.9 billion turnove...
27 May 2011

Will Apple Redeem Piracy?

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One of the central arguments I and others make is that piracy is actually *good* for media producers in all sorts of ways (there lots of lin...
09 September 2008

Not So Much Jaunty, As Jarring...

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As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it's time to create space for future plans, and so I'm writing to introduce you to The Jau...
04 June 2008

Harvesting the Wisdom of Crowds

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Here's a clever idea : use customer reviews to fine-tune your product description. After all, reviews by their very nature tend to be b...
28 May 2008

Keep Your Eyes Open

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On Open Enterprise blog .
11 February 2008

OOoCon in China?

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The OpenOffice.org Conference ( OOoCon ) is an annual gathering is where representatives of all the community projects meet to celebrate and...
23 November 2007

Openness: Purity of Essence

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I wrote a piece for Linux Journal recently warning that Microsoft was beginning to hijack the meaning of the phrase "open source...
05 November 2007

A Passionate Plea Against Patents

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One of the winners of the the 2007 essay contest on " Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries " i...
11 October 2007

Cielo!

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Or rather, Madonna! - another one : Pop star Madonna is close to leaving her long-time Warner Bros. Records label for a wide-ranging $US120...
01 October 2007

It's Up to Us

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Radiohead has a new album that you can download - and choose how much you pay. Alternatively, it has a CD version, two vinyl records, an e...
18 July 2007

More Parallel Universes

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Some while back I wrote a piece called " Parallel Universes " looking at the surprising similarities between the world of open sou...
10 July 2007

The Right Way to Write Online

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A great piece by Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen called "Write articles, not blog postings." It's extremely long and detail...
17 April 2007

Open Source Demand Generation

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Is there nothing that free software can't do ?: LoopFuse is the enterprise-grade open source alternative to demand generation, offering ...
27 February 2007

The Enclosure of the Starbucks Experience

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Here's an insightful piece : Let’s face it: a brand is all about creating a monoculture. It is all about efficiencies, bureaucratization...
22 February 2006

10 Things to Build a Blog Readership

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1: A clear idea of what you are trying to do If you want to get and keep an audience for a blog, you need to have a clear idea about a coupl...