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Dell Store to open down the street

Posted by Howard | May 24, 2006 .

It seems Dell has been watching the Apple Stores, and is opening its own retail outlets, both in Texas, and in Nyack at my local Palisades Mall. Palisades is supposedly the 2nd largest mall in America, and it does have a Skating Rink, merry-go-round and Ferris Wheel inside.
It also has an Apple Store, so [...]

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We the people (are being watched…)

Posted by Howard | May 17, 2006 .

My old friend Mitch alerts me to another potential privacy problem. Of course, he could have called, but it might have been tapped…
Surveillance society: Growing daily? by ZDNet’s Mitch Ratcliffe — A bill being floated on Capitol Hill by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R.â??Wisconsin) would require Internet service providers to deliver logs of users’ [...]

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Good Customer Service…ongoing

Posted by Howard | May 16, 2006 .

I’ve had accounts with Fidelity for years. I had one set of stocks at SSB (no link) that I wanted to transfer out to save on fees charged. Well, the fine Citi/SSB folks charged me $95 for the privlege of taking my stock out and sending it electronically (which takes almost no time and costs almost zero [...]

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Evolution of Economics

Posted by Howard | May 8, 2006 .

Verna Alle
Economic Theory free-fall – there are no good models of the knowledge economy. All our ideas are based on product and commodity
If we create new ideas and share, all people come away enriched.
We have an opportunity to reconcile economy with fabric of life.
Drucker: The Corporation as we know it is unlikely to survive [...]

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Meshforum - David Levinson

Posted by Howard | May 8, 2006 .

Transportation networks – networks (like railroads) can’t easily be reconfigured  – you can’t turn a rail station to an airport.
We have fast, empty trains – we don’t think about empty trains when no one is there to use them. Bureaucracy runs trains regardless of who rides.
Ocean travel – Containers=packet switched networks. Longshoreman shut down west coast [...]

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Broadband Mechanics

Posted by Howard | May 7, 2006 .

 Marc Senasac of Broadband Mechanics – user generated content using open standards as much as possible.
Examples – Structured Blogging, Our Media (as part of the Internet Archive).
People Aggregator project – different ways to connect to each other – groups, individuals and heirarchy rules – based on standards and open source. Will include structured blogging, multi-level [...]

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Aaron Burcell, Podshow

Posted by Howard | May 7, 2006 .

Podshow, 18 months of growth, top 100 indie content creators, partnerships with Sirius and iTunes.
Audience creates or co-creates the content
movement will be driven not by tech but by consumer demand. The nature of the content people consume will change dramatically.
In Q4 2005 – hit shows had 500k per month, now they have 1.5 MM downloads [...]

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Large scale social networks panel

Posted by Howard | May 7, 2006 .

Anil Dash:
when typepad started most people had ratio of blog to readers – 40:1 now it is closer to 1000:1 at Typepad.
LiveJournal – huge community – primarily or 2/3rd woman 18–24, very geographically and technologically disparate. Communities like this allow interest groups (That guy who loves cars can talk to car lovers) without boring people. Live [...]

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I’m the top article on Optimze Magazine today!

Posted by Howard | May 7, 2006 .

Fun to be the top article (Link to the front page). Check the direct link to the article here.
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Searching High and Low for Windows Home Server
How cool is this
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MeshForum in SF 5/7

Posted by Howard | May 7, 2006 .

I’m at Meshforum. Blogging less than I wanted to, because I was setting up the wireless LAN and the sound recordings for Shannon.
Shel Israel and Robert Scoble of Naked Conversations are on stage right now. My notes are notes for self – you may or may not get value from them…
 
Shel and Scoble
 
 
Word of [...]

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