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Cory Doctorow´sexperiment is quite astonishing: in order to find out the future format of books, you are able to download his newest novel. His invitation is to copy the text in any other format you like, and send it back to him – he will publish the new format on his website. Currently it´s available…
As nytimes.com reports, there will be an upcoming opportunity for online-ad sellers like google or yahoo, to enforce their revenue: As a study shows, 25 % of the online users are informing themselves about products of local dealers in the internet. Thanks marketingwonk.de for the pointer.
What a cool application: asJoi Ito’s Weblog reports,
well, i´ve thought about the idea of creating an open company, in which all business-processes are open. several comments in this blog showed obvious problems: what about your customers? do they really want their names to be open to everyone? i guess, that specialising on certain industries would make sense: webprojects for the government, social-projects:…
If you have got an iPOD, you could take this piece of software, and turn it into a multi-mobil-information-system! It even can sync your rss-feeds. if someone owns an ipod, and works with ipod2go, please post your experiences. It really sounds interesting, though it certainly is no alternative to a windows ce-system where you can…
As mail & guardian reports, there now seem to be new fights against kazaa in australia. since the music industry failed to gain a stop of the peer to peer network in the usa late 2003, MIPI (Music Industry Piracy Investigations) tries to make up a multi-legal-juristication-front against kazaa, which was victim to several raids…
I bet you all have already heard it: Nokia bought Symbian shares from Psion, who held about 31 % (apr. 200 mio €). So from now on, Nokia controlls the manufacturer of cell-phone software. Though it seems to be quite clever on the first look (Now Nokia holds 63,3%), smaller producers of cell phones (like…
dears, being in berlin at the moment is very nice – on the one hand, because we are staying our the friends house, living a comfortable life. On the other it`s very cold and rainy up here. I`ll be back on monday, brining you intimate stories of our all friend gerhard s. 😉
As internetnews.com reports, the american start-up RSSAds is going to put Advertising into RSS feeds. There will be several cost-models: among them „pay-per-perfomance“ which is going to be the most attractive one. RSS feeds have become a very interesting instrument for marketers, since spam fills up all our email-boxes. (thanks
As n24.de reports, Microsoft was the best company to work for in 2003 in Germany. It is said, that even in tough times for the IT, Microsoft tried to realize best working conditions for its employees.