From the monthly archives:

July 2004

iTunes + Audio Scrobbler = it

July 30, 2004

AudioScrobbler, Song Buddy, Music Plasma or Music Mobs allow one to use recommendations. Must say using AudioScrobbler in synch with iTunes is quite a nifty experience, wonder why Apple is not working on this. Also read the excellent post of Tom Coates on the subject.
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Imagine… links embedded in pictures…

July 29, 2004

Imagine a picture with a digital code embedded in it. Just a few wee pixels will do. You see a picture out in the world, and if you’re curious, you simply take a picture of it with your cam-phone. The phone then detects the code embedded in the image and immediately pops up a web [...]

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re-territorialization in the Plan Puebla Panama

July 29, 2004

State, capital and “second nature:” re-territorialization in the Plan Puebla Panama; excellent scribbles from Hepzibah Muñoz Martínez.
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How important is advertising to building the brand?

July 29, 2004

these are facts:
(1) According to the latest BusinessWeek/Interbrand survey, Amazon’s brand ranking rose 22% last year.
(2) Jeff Bezos: “We don’t do any television advertising, and we take all of the money that we would put into television advertising, and instead put it into things like free SuperSaver shipping [free shipping on most orders over [...]

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Emerging markets

July 28, 2004

China International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health Exhibition, taking place next August:
“The time of being shocked at the mention of sex or regarding sex as an evil has gone by. Now in China, the civilized sexual concept has widely prevailed . Aboomingadult toy sand reproductive health care market to 1.3 billion population, with incomparable scale, [...]

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Confession…

July 28, 2004

of a social software addict.
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Panama and the US FTA

July 28, 2004

oppose against the FTA. Not much concrete has been decided at the end of this round; similar scenario as in Costa Rica apparently.
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Are you a Mongrel?

July 28, 2004

The Global Me:
“Mongrel” must take on a new meaning that conveys the idea of positive, purposeful mixing — a mixing that expands freedom while honoring the origins and preferences of those who mix. “Mongrel” also should not convey deracination, but the possibility of a rich specifically — too rich to fit existing categories. Thus, the [...]

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EU invests 9,3 mio US$ in Ciudad del Saber

July 27, 2004

an important one. The TechnoPark currently hosts 22 hightech companies and will further expand. The major part of the investment will be used to further expand the facilities of the hightech park (on former US Clayton military basis, 10′ outside Panama City). Ivan Perez Venero, our central contact point at Ciuad [...]

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Bloggers versus Journalists

July 27, 2004

Joi Ito published a reflection on Bloggers versus Journalists on his Blog today. A very well referenced posting with external sources and references
At the same time Karel send me this article where ‘journalist’ Dominique Deckmyn writes in De Standaard ’supposedly one of Belgium’s quality newspapers”. The article is not online available without [...]

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