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links for 2007-09-10
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“whether shoppers want more convenience or to do more for themselves; perhaps buying more locally sourced products with more information about what their families are eating and wearing.”
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“If we think of tactics as assembling men and weapons in order to win battles, and of strategy assembling battles to win wars, then logistics could be the art of assembling war and the agricultural economic and industrial resources that make it possible”
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“XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a ‘rel’ attribute to their tags.”
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‘”The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people’s identities on the internet… an underlying framework that connects “friends” and establishes trust relationships between peers’
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“SNIX - an XML language that allows users of social networking sites to update a single profile and and can then be retrived to automaticall update their MySpace, YouTube, Facebook (or whatever) profile”
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Lots of user testing, in other words: ‘Slikstr is the worlds first user created company… creating the next generation of Web 2.0 technologies by directly reaching out to their users and basing much of their decision making on “the wisdom of crowds”’
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“Current microformats allow the encoding and extraction of events, contact information, social relationships, and so on.”
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Clever clever: “The opportunity in advertising, perhaps it’s saviour, is semantic binding. Loose associations that couple with other miscellaneous facts. I’ve been calling this ‘Stateless Marketing’, based upon RESTful services.”
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Comment: “If you die in the Matrix, you die in the real world, man!”
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“He made energy visible. — How about making our energy use visible to everyone? Imagine if your daily consumption were part of your Facebook page… You’d work harder to conserve so you don’t look like a jackass in front of your peers.”
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“In contrast to morning types, evening people preferred the symbolic over the concrete, were creative and risk-taking, and tended to be non-conformist and independent.” — So, i’ll be in at 15:00. OK?
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“She said that one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week.”
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Wear your jumpers! “Spy-in-the-sky cameras are being used to identify householders who are wasting the most energy and to shame them into turning the central heating down.”
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“Only heroes team up, while villains do not.”
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“Mark Granovetter is an American sociologist who is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of information in a community known as “The Strength of Weak Ties” (1973)”
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“… once a week we’d meet for four hours and brainstorm business plans… A year later, we had compiled more than 500 great ideas… Successful people have this in common. It’s not the giant breakthroughs, it’s the willingness to take little chances.”
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Just checking.
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“In an age where information is more accessible and companies more open than ever before, we are still fascinated by secrecy and its power to connect us to other beings. We have an overwhelming desire to share secrets anonymously with others.”
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#1 Antigenic drift is the gradual mutation of surface antigens as the virus moves through the population. (the remix) #2 Antigenic shift is when two viruses from two different species mix to form a hybrid and a completely new virus. (the mash-up)”
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“Twitter could then perhaps just as easily be called Flutter because it is in some respects a response to a chaotic, folk view of history; an attempt to somehow weave this web of human chaos that we all feel inextricably part of.”
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“The word ‘text’ is derived from the Latin word ‘textere’ meaning to ‘weave’ and the word ‘rhapsody’ literally means ‘to stitch together’ in Greek.. cutting and pasting is simply a new way of cutting and sewing – a recombinant process.”
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“Haro calls Habbo a “gameless game”… they’ve created a number of themed rooms and let the players devise their own games around them.They’ve added “rare item” sales, external advertising, and other revenue channels…51% boys and 49% girls”
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“Giant Ant has published a paper describing ten heuristics for mobile design. A nice, clear encapsulation of some of the primary issues for designers of mobile devices.”
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“Nokia Trends Lab is a physical and virtual hub of mobility experiences. Nokia wants to enable creative thinkers to push the boundaries of how to use mobility as part of the creative process.”
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Facebook funded by CIA (sort of)
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