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Do you own trees?
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on June 01, 2008
Today's New York Times reports an astonishing fact: Book publishers wholesale their ebooks to Amazon for precisely the same price as their paper books. Amazon loses money on every ebook for the Kindle they sell because publishers don't discount zero-cost ebooks. Apparently, the publishers don't count the paper, storage, inventory, shredding and shipping expenses in their cost...
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The Idea Behind "Can Google Hear Me"
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 09, 2008
You might remember the crazy story behind CanGoogleHearMe.com: Aaron Stanton had a great idea he couldn't bring to life and he decided to pitch it to Google. Last year, he created a site to share his story and managed to convince Google to hear his idea. Since then, a lot of things have happened, other companies became interested in his project and he created a prototype, with a small team of...
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The Media markets
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on May 06, 2008
The product they sell is drama. When I went to business school, we spent an entire 90 minute class on how to read the Wall Street Journal. That's a rare treat... being taught how to understand and psyche out the media. With the vast bulk of our news coming online now, it's worth taking a second to look at the way mainstream media markets drama. You know and I know that they're doing...
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Placebo pills made for kids
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 29, 2008
The Placebo Store sells cherry-flavored chewable tablets called Obecalp (get it?) for parents to administer when they don't think their kid is really sick. Hi. Welcome to the Placebo Store. I'm Jen. I am a mommy. It's what I love. It's my job to make owies go away. Whether it's a kiss or a big hug, the magic happens immediately. This is the power of placebo. I have a baby...
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Ancient Roman computer was used to chart the skies
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 18, 2008
Some of the mystery surrounding the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical computer recovered from a 2100-year-old Roman shipwreck near BritainGreece has been unravelled. The device was an astronomical calculator -- and it employed a differential gear!Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered...
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Marketing HR
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on February 18, 2008
Yesterday's post led to some good email about Human Resources. Understand that in days of yore, factories consisted of people and machines. The goal was to use more machines, fewer people, and to design processes so that the people were interchangeable, low cost and easily replaced. The more leverage the factory-owner had, the better. Hence Personnel or the even more cruel term: HR. It...
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Spreading OpenSocial Across the Web
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 11, 2008
Any web site can be a container for OpenSocial, any web site can add social features even if it's not a social network - that seems to be the idea behind Friend Connect, a new piece from Google's social puzzle. Friend Connect will allow the users of a site to add profiles, to import their friends from other social networks, to use social applications in the context of a site.Paul Buchheit...
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The posture of a communicator
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on February 14, 2008
... don't learn what I'm teaching, I've let you down. It's really easy to insist that people read the friggin manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it or for not caring enough to pay attention. Sometimes (often) that might even be a valid complaint. But it's not helpful. What's helpful is ...
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Where You Find the Time to Spend Online [Time Management]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on April 29, 2008
Where do people find the time to do things like edit the Wikipedia? They watch less television, says author Clay Shirky in a fantastic, brief talk at the recent Web 2.0 conference. Shirky makes a compelling case that people are just learning how to deal with the "cognitive surplus" of free time modern life affords us. We're waking up from the "collective bender" of mindlessly watching...
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WorldWide Telescope Visualizes the Night Sky [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 12, 2008
Windows only: Microsoft Research releases astronomy application WorldWide Telescope, software which offers "terabytes" of detailed telescope images of the night sky for exploration right on your desktop. Zoom, pan, and explore the solar system, galaxies and more using WorldWide Telescope. The BBC reports:Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra...
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