Category: innovation | 革新 | 독창성 | 改変
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Microsoft alternatives + more news
Microsoft alternatives EU stumbles on buying Microsoft alternatives – The European Commission, a thorn in Microsoft’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) side for its antitrust campaigns against the software giant, is falling short in its own internal attempt to promote Microsoft alternatives – this isn’t surprising. The open source community have failed with desktop…
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Chinese bloggers + more news
Chinese bloggers China Journal : Chinese Bloggers Really Are Edgy – interesting that Chinese bloggers don’t necessarily reflect the rabid knee jerk nationalism that we have come to associate with web users in PRC Economics All of Inflation’s Little Parts – The New York Times – lovely infographic that the folks at PSFK pointed out…
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Chinese nationalism + more
Chinese nationalism Talking heads spar over Carrefour boycott – internal debate on China’s self confidence and identity and how it should be expressed. I think that Wang Xiaodong was one of the authors of China Can Say Now – a groundbreaking collection of essays on Chinese nationalism published in 1996 EastSouthWestNorth: Why Is CNN Patriotic?…
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Mountain Lion + more news
Mountain Lion Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion – interesting insight to Apple’s PR approach on OS X Mountain Lion Apple OS X Mountain Lion unveiled: Consumer dream, developer nightmare | ExtremeTech – Mountain Lion is leaning much more heavily on the app store and has an eye towards iOS converts Beauty Not Made Up: Tourists Boost…
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The Future of Ideas
I was curious to read Lawrence Lessig‘s The Future of Ideas because of Google’s recent intervention in the ongoing wireless spectrum auction being held in America. Google sought to get slivers of American wireless spectrum in the 90MHz space with a view to providing an alternative form of broadband access. This would be a challenge…
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Semantic web + more news
Semantic web Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now – The semantic web is designed to be machine readable. The underlying technologies supporting the semantic web are used to formally represent metadata. For example, ontology can describe concepts, relationships between entities, and categories of things. The most interesting thing about Berners-Lee’s…
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Bradley Horowitz + more news
Bradley Horowitz On Leaving Yahoo… : Elatable | Bradley Horowitz – Bradley Horowitz leaving Yahoo!, on its own a bit of a sad day for the big Y! as Bradley is probably the smartest guy I have ever stuck in front of a journalist. Bradley Horowitz had come to Yahoo! as part of the surge…
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Google Answers + more news
Google Answers Google Answers decides to close up shop – Google Answers is an attempt to create high quality material for knowledge search and a monetisation model at the same time. At the top end, Google Answers looked like consultancy on the cheap. Given the size of the core Google business versus other media opportunities…
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The Change Function by Pip Coburn
Thinking about The Change Function as a book reminded me as an agency person, it is not enough only be a good, but to understand something about your clients. Are they a winner or a flamer?If they are a flamer, you want your cash up front and start contingency planning for how you replace them…