March 2010
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Franklin explained that one should make decisions by listing pros and cons, and...
– Obliquity: the roundabout route to success - Management Today
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The modern Boeing Corporation was created by its long-term (1945-70) CEO Bill...
– Obliquity: the roundabout route to success - Management Today
Obliquity describes the process of achieving objectives indirectly… Surely...
– Obliquity: the roundabout route to success - Management Today
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Mr. Shirky says he sees a generational divide. “It’s no accident,” he said,...
– Google Searches for a Foreign Policy - NYTimes.com
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What forces Google to have a foreign policy is that what they’re exporting isn’t...
– Google Searches for a Foreign Policy - NYTimes.com
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After Kenya’s disputed election in 2007, violence erupted. A prominent Kenyan...
– Ushahidi - Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley - How to Track a Crisis - NYTimes.com
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Jafari and Fassihi recruited amateur Iranian game developers from...
– Iranian developers defy huge odds to create acclaimed computer game
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When evaluating video and display side by side, consumers exposed to video...
– .Fox Networks and comScore Reveal Ground-Breaking Findings About the Branding Impact of Online Advertising - comScore, Inc
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Confused is a U.K. company that claims to be the first Web site for insurance...
– I don’t bleepin’ believe it
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Open the mobile phone application offered by a French real estate agency and...
– Portable Real Estate Listings — but With a Difference - NYTimes.com
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The A.R. Beatles Tour, for example, superimposes videos and 3-D models, like a...
– Portable Real Estate Listings — but With a Difference - NYTimes.com
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rather than building a browser of its own, Yandex has apparently opted to...
– Russia’s Yandex launches a Google Chrome browser of its own
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From the recent early-morning 4.4-magnitude jostle in Los Angeles to...
– Ordinary Laptops Act as Earthquake Detectors | LiveScience
One of the reasons chess is an “unparalleled laboratory” and a...
– The Chess Master and the Computer - The New York Review of Books
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There have been many unintended consequences, both positive and negative, of the...
– The Chess Master and the Computer - The New York Review of Books
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AI crowd, too, was pleased with the result and the attention, but dismayed by...
– The Chess Master and the Computer - The New York Review of Books
China's instructions on reporting on Google →
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Is Makmende Kenya’s first “viral” Internet... →
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Copyright law … is not an engine of free expression, but a yoke of...
– Is Copyright the Buggy Whip of the Digital Age? - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
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the conference opened with Bill Patry, senior copyright counsel from Google, who...
– Is Copyright the Buggy Whip of the Digital Age? - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
Nestle, in a fit of intellectual property protectionism, informed its 90,000...
– Nestle to Facebook Fans: Consider Yourself Embraced - Adages - Advertising Age
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Paul Feng, Google’s mobile-ads group product manager, said about one-third...
– Forget Foursquare: Why Location Marketing Is New Point-of-Purchase - Advertising Age - Digital
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It’s the ad served while you are reading the news in the morning on an...
– Forget Foursquare: Why Location Marketing Is New Point-of-Purchase - Advertising Age - Digital
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The latest frontier for marketers is taking offline data such as income, credit...
– Online Advertising Targeting Is Fuel for Privacy Battle - Advertising Age - Digital
Microsoft cut a deal to be the default search provider for some Verizon phones....
– Why Apple Won’t Be Launching a Search Engine Any Time Soon - Advertising Age - Digital
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These deeper links bypass the advertiser’s home page but are giving them a...
– Google Sitelinks Search Ad Format, Loved and Hated by Brands - Advertising Age - Digital
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Reading in the traditional open-ended sense is not what most of us, whatever our...
– Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com
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DATA SMOG (I like this term - hadn’t come across it before)
– BOOKS OF THE TIMES - How Endless Information Restricts Your View - Review - NYTimes.com
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It’s not just a question of how these “content producers” are supposed to make a...
– Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com
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Content ID. It works like this: Engineers create a spectrogram — a graphical...
– 5 Secrets of YouTube’s Success | Magazine
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According to the latest Three Screen report (PDF) out of Nielsen, Americans in...
– 60% of Americans engaging in couch potato multitasking
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The products made by midrange companies are neither exceptional enough to...
– Apple : The New Yorker
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For Apple, which has enjoyed enormous success in recent years, “build it and...
– Apple : The New Yorker
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(In the US) National chains that advertise regionally, particularly the quick...
– Yahoo’s Display Ad Target: Neighborhoods - Forbes.com
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Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trump Google For News &... →
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China: an... →
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more than 25 million people have “gone Google”, including those at...
– Official Google Blog: 25 million people have gone Google
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Google’s need for speed boils down to one very simple thing: money. It realized...
– Google’s Need For Speed Is About Making You Search More
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Opera reports that downloads of its browser have more than doubled since the...
– Europe’s Web Users Cast their Ballots
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube,...
– YouTube Blog: Broadcast Yourself
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Google’s big bonehead play was seen by almost everyone as a great triumph, the...
– Google’s Biggest Blunder | The Big Money
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In this decade, I’ve become obsessed with a new simple question: “Why isn’t all...
– The Facebook Imperative