Dec
31
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“I long for the day when I can submit my dimensions and order personalized clothes. ” yep, this is why I work on VRM.
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required reading
Dec
31
Happy New Year!
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To friends, readers and fellow web addicts - may the coming year be connected, networked and as much fun online as it used to be in the early days…

All the best for 2008!
Dec
28
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technology as it should be - the kids love it - and it seems their illiterate parents too. Now, that’s an achievement!
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amazing how people can put stuff like this on the internet so more of us can learn about this…
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from twisted plumbing to one big pipe. overtones of VRM in the last paragraph too. nice to see the sentiment is general not just confined to one initiative
Dec
22
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11. Protect your privacy when surfing with Firefox
Dec
21
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not sure I agree, this suggests that users have no say in this. maybe but for now I don’t believe it.
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can’t work out how this works
Dec
20
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portability, sounds like taking charge of your data.
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yes, nice example but can’t see it happening from the vendors side. let’s create tools to give people ability to do things that will get through to companies that customers really is always right.
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clear and to the point explanation of the DMCA. via Simon Phipps
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Much of the discussion revolved around issues of privacy, which Esther Dyson pointed out is about the same now as it was in 1800. But the key points were about the value of our remarkable …
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dave winer sayz this is important. I can see why. storage and data management becoming commodity for individuals (even if still developers and not end users), not just companies.
Dec
19
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another platform. but note it’s all about gathering stuff around you.
Dec
18
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worth a look on the long winter nights
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the web of 2007 is a house built on sand. advertising is the monetisation of the value a site or network brings to its users. Not good.
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an old fart who’s right about usability but not much else, with the syndrome ‘doesn’t understand the Web’. lot of that going around.
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This start-up in Cupertino, California, uses the power of community to create and continuously improve its open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software. Founder and CEO John…
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company let’s shoppers see the stock. such a no-brainer…
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how not to do it, another reason why people should be their own platforms…
Dec
17
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low value customers, is there such a thing? metrics getting in the way of common sense again
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wesabe rocks
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Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time.
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open source databases overtake proprietary ones on all counts
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Way to go M$. Vista is never going on any of my computers. It’ll be Linux or getting a Mac
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list of ways not to give sympathy. spot on.
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why should i be on a social network platform? I have a blog, a platform of one.
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a must-read for anyone working in a large organisation and/or trying to build anything useful
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great stuff, needs to be repeated often. “Try to lock them in and they’ll walk away · Put it another way: make it easy to walk away, and they’ll come back.”
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good notes on Doc’s talk at LeWeb3
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presence of encryption software on your computer seen as incriminating?
Dec
17
Quote to remember
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
- Gall’s Law via Tim Bray
Dec
16
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stupid line up but a useful list of examples for those who say that blogs are just online diaries.
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privacy-service/discount/benefit is not a valid trade-off! changing people’s perspective on privacy should only go the way of valuing it more, not less
Dec
15
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Gartner sayz: the hype around social networking doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a mature enough technology to make it a critical business requirement. Maybe right for wrong reason.
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any software, especially enterprise one, should be build for humans, not for business. IT drones who say otherwise are wrong.
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an IT drone has spoken. see previous article on enterprise software

