9 month ago
nelson : Consumption spreading - The bottom graph is amazing
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12 month ago
Linkorama : BugLabs.net’s really cool reconfigurable gadget - Like a Lego Mindstorms kit for adults who want to make almost any kind of open source consumer electronics device
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy - Facebook is collecting information about user actions on affiliate sites regardless of whether or not the user chose to opt out, and regardless of whether or not the user is logged into Facebook at that time. The evidence I present below directly contrad
Rod Begbie : Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in. - CA Security Advisor Research Blog - CA - Even if you're using Facebook's privacy settings to opt-out of their new "Beacon" "service", the info is still getting sent to Facebook who may or may not be gathering it. Thank gawd for Adblock. [via] #
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Linkorama : Language lessons - Content implies property to me. I've also had problems with subscriber, as if we were subhuman to scribes. But then again, journalists probably had problems being called scribes too.
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Customer sues for $65 million over pants - The manifest absurdity of it is too obvious to require explanation," Welles wrote.
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Cumulative Advantage and Social Influence - The common-sense view, however, makes a big assumption: that when people make decisions about what they like, they do so independently of one another. But people almost never make decisions independently — in part because the world abounds with so many
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20 month ago
Linkorama : ProductWiki - ProductWiki is the website where people share information about consumer products. All of the content in the wiki is written and maintained by people just like you.
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Powercast Wireless Power - Incredible to think of the consumer electronics revolution this will unleash.
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down - I'm afraid to say that consumer RSS Readers are rapidly becoming commodities and will soon be next to worthless - the real business is white label and enterprise solutions.
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30 month ago
Linkorama : User Generated Brochures - Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, and a provocative thinker about all things wiki, said it pretty well: "People are leaving breadcrumbs of where they spent attention."
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Eye-Fi - Their first product will be a 1GB SD card with built in Wifi. For about the same price as a 1 GB flash card sells for today - $100.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Will Easy Wikis Mean Busy Cliques? - "You also have a strong culture of participation that didn't exist before," she says. "People are more adept at contributing content to people they know and trust. It's not just community of people randomly drawn together but they have a relationship."
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Why is Web 2.0 only about Consumer Sites? - Because of the consumer/enterprise funding cycle
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Complexity causes 50% of product returns - Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, a scientist said on Monday.
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33 month ago
kellan : Gap has complete it's rebranding - And contrary to Spike Jonze's ultimate wish fulfillment piece, the results are predictably predictable. J reviews, plus a note on how to freak out sales people. #
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35 month ago
Rod Begbie : ThinkGeek :: eStarling Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled LCD Frame - One of those LCD photoframe dealios, but this one can subscribe to Flickr RSS feed downloaded over Wi-Fi. [via] #
erikbenson : wifi flickr photo frame - I'd like one of these. A bit expensive though.
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Full Story - Digital SLR Cameras Consumer Report: Digital SLRs vs. standard digital cameras - This report covers digital single-lens reflex cameras (dSLRs), which are digital versions of film-based SLR cameras. Digital SLRs use interchangeable lenses and often don't come with a lens at all
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36 month ago
ricmac : VentureBlog: Social Networks 3.0 - "In a nod back to the earliest instantiations of social networking, entrepreneurs have come to realize that social networks are enablers of other compelling consumer experiences."
Linkorama : Social Networks 3.0 - I am more than a little excited about Social Networks 3.0 because I believe that social networking will be a crucial element of virtually all online consumer experiences going forward. And truly compelling online consumer experiences will always make succ
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Power to the People - We should be providing solutions that work for people, not the other way around.
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Sony: You don't reeeeaaaally want to uninstall, do you? - The fact that Sony's announcement was directed at the press and that they’ve made no effort to make contact with their customers makes the patch and uninstall look solely like a public relations gesture for the media.
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37 month ago
jkottke : 10 ways that companies can stop being stupid - David Pogue on 10 ways that companies can stop being stupid and help their customers. "Thou shalt not hide from thy customers." (via df) [via]
merlinmann : 10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers - New York Times - "Thou shalt not entomb thy product in indestructible plastic." Sing it, sister.
WillPate : 10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers
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38 month ago
Linkorama : remix is active consumption not production - My argument is that we stop thinking of remix as production, but as active consumption. Remix happens as a bi-product of consumption. What we're remixing is culture and the active consumption of culture is part of identity development and living as a soci
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38 month ago
Linkorama : meta social app platform - That challenge also applies to Jotspot and any other company that fancies its chances as a meta social app platform.
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