Ok. So ChangeThis kindly sent me the “blogger’s preview” edition of their manifestos. One of them this time is especially interesting, as it talks about “Open Source Marketing”, and yes, it is worth blogging. But, as the manifesto is in PDF, I am actually not pointing to it, but I invite other people to download […]
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I am always glad to see how a meme could spread… Let’s see if opinion radar is a good one. Opinion radar has been proposed by Marco Montemagno to better contextualize the Technorati tag searches. The link I added to the previous sentence is the example of its use, and actually at this time it
After a few years the dream of MP3.com is back, and it even more important than before. www.MP3tunes.com offers DRM-free songs at a great price, and couples with a Linux-based media center called MP3beamer that lets you sync it to all your PCs or devices. Digital Restrictions Management, as founder Michael Robertson calls it, cripples
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Map24 has been my favorite online mapping solution, after I discovered them as they won two Webby Awards in 2004. The vector based java plugin, which works with both Internet Explorer and Firefox, makes it the smoothest solution I’ve seen. Now they teamed up with Google Europe, so that when you search for a city
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I was thinking about LinkedIn, and their forthcoming features, and I realized that with tools for automating, and weighing contacts, and references, they are becoming an enabling mechanism for a Long Tail effect in professional relationships, where the aggregate value of the many smaller ones is higher than that of the bigger ones. So what
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Memes made sure they had an environment to thrive on by accelerating the evolution of humans. Research covered in the Guardian describes how the evolution of the human brain has been very quick in confront of that of other species, and attributes it to the pressures of the social environment. The new replicator takes control
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In an understandably vague article, that tries to explain in layman’s terms the meaning of a new theorem about the interactions of quantum states with the environment, Nature announces the results of a team of US physicists, that aims to explain the objective shared reality we observe, through the involvement of a new replicator. This
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Looking up the Netcraft records for *.google.com brings up a lot that deafaults to www.google.com or its equivalents. There are a few gems, like console.google.com, that make you feel you could control the Google Universe if only you had the right password, or if someone gave one to you (as there is an email link
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The release of the Flickr API has proved to be very fertile, and now has produced a gem: Mappr tries to interpret the tags of photos, to place them on the map of the US. Of course this should be immediately extended worldwide! Since you can look up other tags that are not geography related
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Geof Stone is guest-blogging on Lessig.org about dissent, and how politicized media or strong-arming politics can suppress it, or try tint it with shades implied guilt. One of the most commovent views at a trip I took to the US in November 2001 was a poster the width of the entire building, at the second
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