As part of their plan to roll out a retail store initiative, Microsoft is hiring away Apple Store employees to run the new Microsoft Stores. These ever loyal Apple employees are apparently jumping at the chance to make a little…
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Putting A Dollar Value On Social Media
There has been speculation for months about how a business might calculate the value of social media. Businesses large and small are using facebook, twitter, linked in, and lots of other social media outlets to promote their products and keep…
Ready To Make Your Own Glow Tape
The idea that the products we sell might someday be generated organically and thus solve the disposable problems that selling expendables cause is exciting. I have written about this in the past. A recent article in the Telegraph highlights the…
My Phone Needs Another Button
Jeff
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The ability to make a free (or almost free) phone call by using a computer with a broadband connection is a great innovation. It opens up lots of opportunities for new telcom services and helps keep the big phone companies…
Blogging For Robot Readers
I have been posting to this blog on-and-off for about three years and have found it to be a useful way to organize my thoughts. We got lots of valuable comments from readers and it is a good way to…
Copper Prices
Jeff
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I came across an interesting article in last week’s Wall Street Journal regarding the continuing strength of commodity prices based on demand in China. This article speculated that a lot of the Chinese buying was a stockpiling of material…
Looks Like Google “knol” Is Going “Knolwhere”
Jeff
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I said I’d get back to you with a report regarding Google “knol”, their new project to build a knowledge base. I posted two knol articles back at the end of April to see if Google was ready to take…
Want To Get Rich? Start Here
I find that I have gradually moved from being amazed at how many great media services I can subscribe to on the internet to being just distracted. The time required to keep with with online subscriptions to Netflix, audio books, …
Quick Follow Up To Yesterday’s Blog
Yesterday, I posted some comments on Google knol and I have already gotten a couple of questions answered. While the articles don’t show up in search when the key words are used by themselves, when you combine the key words…
What’s Google Up To Now?
Jeff
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Have you heard of Google knol? I hadn’t either until yesterday. Knol is an acronym created by Google, and it means “a unit of knowledge“. Knol is a new content creation index from Google that has a lot of similarities…
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