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My space and shortly Mysun
Interesting story in The Guardian about Murdoch bringing out a version of Myspace (see my earlier post) for UK Sun readers called MySun. Sounds a great idea to kick some life into the UK blogging scene. Found on business2business Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there…
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Google finance launches
If you go to www.finance.google.com you can now enter your portfolio and track it. Or more precisely if you are in the USA you can. The rest of the world gets :- will support international symbols soon So Yahoo is still in the lead… Thanks to memeorandum and Silicon Beat for the story.
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An autistic evening…
Just back with Em from a very enjoyable talk given by Simon Baron-Cohen on Gifted Scientists and Autism – Is there a connection? as part of the Cambridge Science Festival He quickly dismissed the work done on finding autistic traits from the biographies of Newton and Einstein as been unfair, unreliable and unclear even though…
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Logging visitors to this blog….
Just started to use My Blog Log to gather statistics on folks using this blog. Really very interesting the search terms people are using to find it. such as “revolution health” “weekends in krakov” Heres a screenshot taken from it:- Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown…
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Technology v DRM
Excellent quote::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon: SXSW Highlights: “‘Technology is about enabling people. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is about disabling people. DRM is the opposite of what technology should do.’ Ian Clarke (Freenet), Commons-Based Business Models” I’m sure Cory Doctorow would agree Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown…
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Self rating in a minority
On Friday I attended the Technology and Gender Inequalities conference at CRASSH here in Cambridge the event was part of the Social Science Week. I was prompted to go by Shelleys article on Burningbird about the Our Social World Conference I held last year and her comments about the lack of women attending. Another reason…
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My space or Over there space
A VC (Who I note has a similar personality profile to me) has an interesting article about Myspace. I find it interesting that most parents I speak to here in the UK are not even aware of Myspace‘s existence, even though Murdoch bought it for $580m in July 2005, and that most of their kids…
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The Intention economy at work?
Is this is an example of Doc Searls intention economy at work? Rogier Mulder’s Apple magSafe power connector burnt up so he posted pictures onto Flickr. Apple apparently saw the pictures ,asked for them to be taken down. But here is the good bit “Apple support responded very well (thanks Klaas) and fast. Before Icalled…
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commoditization or Decommoditification
Two takes on commoditisation one by Hugh“And selling commodities is hard. If you don’t give the customer exactly what she wants” and one from Geoff Moore“What you want to do is overcome the force of commoditization, which works to your disadvantage, eroding your margins.” Interesting reads
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Clinically Famous Bellydance
Visited my Pilates Teacher Daphne on her second night of the play chronicling her time in Cairo as a bellydancer. An excellent performance with some great bellydancing as well. The second part was by Caroline Ann Gold called Clinically Famous and was a dramatised version of her stay at The Priory with agitated depression coupled…