Thursday, December 6th, 2007
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“many Internet start-ups are hemmed in by linguistic barriers that limit their ability to attract users and generate revenue. The European market, for example, is theoretically huge … But Europeans speak more than a dozen languages”
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“Comet is an umbrella term for any technique that allows a web server to “push” events down to a browser. You can think of it as an alternative to Ajax polling, with the benefit that events are relayed in almost real-time and “wasted” requests”
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“if you understand how important SEO is for enabling customer acquisition via Google & Search, then you should similarly understand why SMO — Social Media Optimization — is important for enabling customer acquisition via Facebook & Social Networking.”
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“having more books available more cheaply doesn’t mean any more books read… Time, not price, is the limiting factor.” Tim O’Reilly trashes optimistic predictions on e-book evolution, like ad-supported e-books and profitable long-tail self-publishing.
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Experimental OpenID provider by Microsoft Research, testing whether inkblot images (similar to a Rorschach test) help to create and, later, remember a strong password. By a small group at MS Research working in the security and distributed systems space.
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