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If you're in the web services space, you know that there's been lots of whining lately about how things are boring, no game changers are in sight, blah blah blah....
For the most part, I agree with this notion. But let's be optimistic for a moment and look at some web services that are hot,...
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If you haven't visited the site in a while, you might not be aware that I've been re-publishing stories that I feel are important; somewhere between 0 and 15 a day, with the goal being as few as possible. The stories I republish include a headline, snippet from the article (with a link to the...
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When my colleague and I started working on our business in the fall of 2004, our vision was very blurry. We had only a few guiding lights -- points which we feel are still valid today:
1. Content is going to be free and open licensed -- embracing this principle is essential to building the...
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This is getting a lot of buzz on the Internet, and was even reported on by some of the shills in lamestream media. Here's a kid who asks John Kerry a question at a town hall-style meeting. After he asks the question the cops come in and arrest him and taser him.
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In the...
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Probably the part of business I find most challenging is the concept of positioning: knowing who your customer is, what their problem is, and how to package in a way that they can understand it, be satisfied, and you can fulfill your promise.
Personally, I am in the business of developing...
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EURUSD is reaching all time highs, now getting quoted at 1.3881 from my broker. Breakout traders and cross-market traders, be alert.
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If you lived in New York, you heard us today.
The Infowarriors.
And from now up until September 11, the street actions will be in full effect.
Even if you one of the willfully ignorant, you should pay attention to these street actions because they are the basis of what real media 2.0...
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Looks like we're seeing hyperinflation here in the US.
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by Kid Mercury
The blogosphere dropped some serious hate on Scoble for stating that Techmeme, Facebook, and Mahalo would beat Google within four years. Scoble's argument centered on how Techmeme, Facebook, and Mahalo use different approaches to search, and those approaches are better than...
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by Kid Mercury
StonyArc, a developer in the vBulletin community, has just released vBNow: a Twitter clone that plugs into vBulletin.
I've installed it here on KidMercuryBlog, just for testing purposes. Click here to check it out (sorry for the poor design -- just wanted to test out...
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The fact that YouTube has finally begun to insert ads into videos is one of the most exciting things to happen online. Although there is still a LOT of room for improvement, we at least now have an engine in place that bundles ads with content and syndicates it. The next step is to share revenue...
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Mark Cuban says the Internet is dead and boring. It touched a nerve with a lot of people.
On the tech side, the Internet is dead and boring. Alex Iskold accurately described it as a digestion phase. Because I am a cheapskate who thinks about everything in terms of cheapness, I call it a...
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By Kid Mercury
It's called ZEITGEIST.
Watch it on Google Video here. It's also embedded below.
What's so awesome about it?
1. In online video production, it's all about the editing. (You could say value chains are shifting from production to remixing.) This has outstanding...
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by Kid Mercury
On the right side of the front page of this blog, you'll see a widget promoting Truth Bullies -- an online organization I am starting that writes public letters (i.e. blog posts) to bloggers online to wake them up to 9/11 Truth, and to inspire them to find the courage within...
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By Kid Mercury
For content professionals, CC-BY is the license of the future (or something similar, like OEL). Here's why:
CC-BY-NC is impossible. Google makes money just by linking to your content. In the attention economy, who can put together the big list of links is a way of lot of...
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