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Yearly Archives: 2006
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. It’s a US holiday, I know, but the sentiments are definitely international. It’s good to have a time of the year we take a moment to remind ourselves of the things we are thankful for. I, for … Continue reading
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VRM: Make a gesture, create a market.
What do you get when you turn proprietary data silos inside out? Users in control. Doc Searls has been advocating VRM for a while (here too). What’s nice about his thinking — in addition to the open source/open standards approach … Continue reading
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GoogleAdvice from Seth Godin
In a conversation about the potential market lock-in of Google at Abe Burmeister‘s blog, Dave Chiu introduced me to a great presentation Seth Godin made to Google early in 2006, explaining that it was marketing, and not technology, that made … Continue reading
Homemade bread for turkey day
Fellow Caltech alum Castor Fu turned me on to a great recipe for homemade bread that I hope to try out for Thanksgiving. Here’s the article that turned him on to it (unfortunately now behind NYT’s walled garden) … happy … Continue reading
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Travel travel, but bless Helsinki
I’ve been traveling quite a bit lately, but I guess I need to try to get to Helsinki. Neil Gaiman shares an absolutely lovely video of the Helsinki Complaints Choir. Check it out. It’s worth the effort.
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In Complex Search we trust
Last week, Seth Godin wrote about the critical role trust plays in our market relationships. And the upside? The upside is that individuals (and organizations) that don’t stoop, that manage to figure out how to have influence without trying to … Continue reading
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Everybody’s pimpin’ your search
While I’ve been off traveling, Google and Yahoo have been launching new or revving existing products that verge somewhere between Search VRM and Complex Search. Matt Cutts (at his own blog) and Greg Sterling and Chris Sherman at Search Engine … Continue reading
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Marketing in a disintermediated world
Seth Godin has an excellent post that sums up exactly why marketing and branding is still so crucial in our post-mass-media marketplace: You’re busy trying to sell a service or a product or an idea to lazy people in a … Continue reading
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IE7’s Search VRM
Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Watch has a great write-up about IE7’s use of search. I particularly like this feature: [The] Search Provider page also has an interesting box allowing you to visit any search engine, then do a … Continue reading
You can’t disintermediate the brand
Over at IT Garage, Doc writes: In Software by Bounty, Doug Kay says, This is a tangible manifestation of what Doc Searls has described as the demand side taking control, and I think it bodes well for the further formalization … Continue reading
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