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<title><![CDATA[Book Review:  Free the Future of a Radical Price]]></title>
<link>http://chimac.net/2009/11/28/book-review-free-the-future-of-a-radical-price/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chimac</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I thought this book said some interesting things.  The reviews on Amazon were mixed.  It is somethin]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I thought this book said some interesting things.  The reviews on Amazon were mixed.  It is something to think about at least.  Some of the things he said were puzzling.  For example he spoke about Google PageRank.  Google said said years ago that PageRank is not as important as people think it is and to not focus on it.  Some other things he says is just bizarre.  If he is the lead editor, Wired needs an editor to edit him.  More fact checking would be good. Click <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Free-ebook/dp/B002DYJR4G" target="_self">here</a> to read more opinions on it.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The internet and the erosion of subscription TV, cable and associated media]]></title>
<link>http://cyberaxis.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-internet-and-the-erosion-of-subscription-tv-cable-and-associated-media/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cyberaxis</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The best television is free. So is video when one considers the cost-benefit ratio of what th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[&nbsp; The best television is free. So is video when one considers the cost-benefit ratio of what th]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[new dj mixes added]]></title>
<link>http://undergrounddancemusicarchive.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/new-dj-mixes-added/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[-Johnny fiasco -Gramaphonedzie -Henry Chow -John Aquaviva -Raoul B. (swirl people) -Justin Harris  (]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://undergrounddancemusicarchive.wordpress.com/dj-sets/">-Johnny fiasco</a></p>
<p><a href="http://undergrounddancemusicarchive.wordpress.com/dj-sets/">-Gramaphonedzie</a></p>
<p><a href="http://undergrounddancemusicarchive.wordpress.com/dj-sets/">-Henry Chow</a></p>
<p><a href="http://undergrounddancemusicarchive.wordpress.com/dj-sets/">-John Aquaviva</a></p>
<p><a href="http://undergrounddancemusicarchive.wordpress.com/dj-sets/">-Raoul B. (swirl people)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://undergrounddancemusicarchive.wordpress.com/dj-sets/">-Justin Harris  (Freaks)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://undergrounddancemusicarchive.wordpress.com/dj-sets/">-Chris Anderson (Matrix Crew)</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Economia de Rede e Cauda Longa]]></title>
<link>http://surfandonasnuvens.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/economia-de-rede-e-cauda-longa/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>walmeidadf</dc:creator>
<guid>http://surfandonasnuvens.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/economia-de-rede-e-cauda-longa/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Como disse no post anterior, “Novas Regras para uma Nova Economia” e “A Cauda Longa”, foram dois liv]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Como disse no post anterior, “Novas Regras para uma Nova Economia” e “A Cauda Longa”, foram dois livros me influenciaram fortemente na compreensão de cloud computing e para elaborar o plano de negócios da minha nova empresa. Isso porque eles abordam assuntos de diferentes segmentos, além da TI, para mostrar algumas causas e conseqüências da atual situação de mercado. Entre os dois autores, Kevin Kelly e Chris Anderson, existe uma coincidência que não pode ser desprezada, o último sucedeu o outro como editor-chefe da revista Wired.</p>
<p>Em 1998 Kevin Kelly escreveu esse brilhante livro com uma enxurrada de insights e estratégias que me fazem amargurar ter passado tanto tempo sem lê-lo. Não conseguiria resumir sua potencialidade em um post, portanto tenho disponível um link sobre uma <a href="http://www.xmind.net/share/walmeidadf/network-economy/" target="_blank">esquematização</a> que fiz do livro. O próprio Chris Anderson em seu outro livro, “Free: Grátis, o Futuro do Preço”, faz uma reverência enorme às idéias de Economia de Rede.</p>
<p>Mas o primeiro livro de Anderson, impressionar pois ele aborda o tema de fragmentação dos mercados e os contrastes entre as economias de bits com de átomos, mostrando a nova dinâmica de marketing e vendas que as empresas virtuais precisam ter para lucrar, pois é um mundo totalmente diferente das lojas de tijolo e argamassa. Também fiz uma <a href="http://www.xmind.net/share/walmeidadf/long-tail/" target="_blank">esquematização</a> desse livro.</p>
<p>Entre os diversos aspectos dos dois livros que me surpreendem é a ruptura que estamos entre um mundo de escassez (átomos) e a profusão de ofertas (bits). Outro ponto é que os nichos estão rivalizando com os hits, a morte da regra do 80/20 de Pareto, na Netflix a regra é de 98% para os nichos. “Conecte cliente com cliente e os torne-os como seus empregados”, na verdade criaremos diversas redes e para quem desenvolveu qualquer sistema sabe disso, os clientes são os mais importantes provedores de requisitos, nada mais natural que escutá-los.</p>
<p>Para se desenvolver um sistema web hoje, é necessário um desktop que suporte Linux e mais uma dúzia de aplicações open souce, ou seja, um investimento de pouco mais de R$ 500,00. Cada vez mais teremos alguém despontando com uma idéia e criando uma aplicação, que poderá ser consumida, melhorada, adaptada por outras pessoas, criando uma rede de desenvolvedores que irão desenvolver diversas soluções de nicho que vão rivalizar com os hits (Microsoft, Oracle e outros grandes).</p>
<p>O mercado de entretenimento é bem fácil de explorar esses exemplos porque este segmento já experimentou essa fragmentação. Kevin Kelly e Chris Anderson exploram esses exemplos e por isso recomendo fortemente a leitura desses livros. Também outros autores discutem esses assunto e aqui deixo <a href="http://walmeida.tadalist.com/lists/1395262/public" target="_blank">minha lista de leitura</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Il guru di Internet che scopre la gratuità]]></title>
<link>http://mastroblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/il-guru-di-internet-che-scopre-la-gratuita/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>raffaele</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Nel regno dell&#8217;abbondanza le merci digitali hanno costi di produzione che tendono a zero. Così]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em><a href="http://mastroblog.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/manifesto.gif"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-498" style="margin:5px;" title="manifesto" src="http://mastroblog.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/manifesto.gif?w=300" alt="" width="179" height="28" /></a>Nel regno dell&#8217;abbondanza le merci digitali hanno costi di produzione che tendono a zero. Così nel web la gratuità tende a diventare la norma e non l&#8217;eccezione. È la tesi che lo studioso e direttore di «Wired» Chris Anderson propone in «Gratis», il suo nuovo libro pubblicato da Rizzoli<br />
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C&#8217;è l&#8217;economia della scarsità fisica, quella in cui gli esseri umani hanno trascorso la gran parte della loro storia. E poi c&#8217;è quella dell&#8217;<strong>abbondanza digitale</strong> nella quale abbiamo cominciato a vivere solo da qualche anno. La prima funziona seguendo la teoria economica classica; la seconda si muove secondo regole in gran parte ancora da scrivere che poco hanno a che fare con i testi sacri della «scienza triste». Per capire lo scarto basta andare in edicola, sfogliare quintali di carta pieni di informazioni a pagamento e poi farsi un giro online per trovare la stessa informazione (e anche di più), solo gratis.</p>
<p>La differenza non è da poco e non è casuale. È anzi la caratteristica distintiva della «rivoluzione» innescata dalla rete che trasforma tutto quello che può in bit, immateriali e facili da trasportare, e rende abbondanti beni che prima erano scarsi. A pensarla così, fra gli altri, è Chris Anderson, direttore del mensile <em>Wired</em> e acclamato guru della rete, sbarcato in Italia con la sua ultima fatica, <em>Gratis</em> (Rizzoli, 19,50 euro). Nel precedente e fortunato saggio, La <strong>coda lunga</strong>, raccontava come cambia il business nell&#8217;era dell&#8217;abbondanza immateriale quando, senza le costrizioni dello spazio e degli scaffali fisici, prodotti che si rivolgono a pochi possono essere economicamente attraenti come quelli di massa.</p>
<p>In Gratis Anderson fa un passo ulteriore. Il futuro della maggior parte dei beni digitali, dice, è marchiato da una sola cifra: lo zero. Il cuore dell&#8217;argomento del nuovo libro è puro materialismo tecnologico. A portarci nel regno della gratuità saranno quei processi in virtù dei quali il prezzo dei supporti di memoria, della banda di trasmissione e dei processori, vale a dire l&#8217;architrave di ogni erogazione di servizi web, si dimezza in un periodo compreso <strong>tra i 9 e i 18 mesi</strong>. A questi ritmi il costo marginale della distribuzione di bit scivola verso lo zero e le aziende più aggressive si comportano di conseguenza, dando via beni digitali senza chiedere nulla in cambio&#8230;<!--more--></p>
<p>Chi fino a ieri prosperava su quello che è destinato a perdere valore non deve però preoccuparsi. Basta seguire i consigli del libro e andare a caccia di quella che l&#8217;autore definisce <strong>«scarsità adiacente»</strong>. Ovvero: non chiedere soldi online per quello che prima o poi qualcun altro regalerà ma trova una fonte di remunerazione collegata. In una parola, freemium: «con una mano dona e con l&#8217;altra fatti pagare».</p>
<p>Più facile a dirsi che a farsi, ma qualcuno lo fa. Google, per esempio, fattura miliardi con la pubblicità online e offre gratis YouTube, Google News e il servizio di posta elettronica Gmail. Flickr, sito di condivisione di foto, è gratis per tutti tranne per quei pochi che sono disposti a spendere per funzionalità aggiuntive. La prestigiosa <strong>conferenza «Ted»</strong>, invece, aumenta la sua popolarità pubblicando gratuitamente i video dei relatori sul web e chiede migliaia di dollari per assistere dal vivo ai convegni e godere del privilegio di conversazioni interessanti nei corridoi.</p>
<p>Pochi sanno<strong> impacchettare</strong> le idee con la maestria del direttore di Wired e del suo staff di editor. Gratis tiene in perfetto equilibrio teoria (vedi le riflessioni sulla strategia di massimizzazione della distribuzione di Google) ed esempi pratici (le band di tecnobrega, genere musicale brasiliano, che accettano la vendita sottocosto dei loro cd nelle strade considerandola pubblicità per le performance dal vivo). Alterna con sapienza storie individuali (King Gillette che fa fortuna vendendo sotto costo rasoi e guadagnando sulle lamette) ed excursus storici sul concetto di «zero», dai babilonesi fino ai giorni nostri.</p>
<p>Tutto così perfetto e ben congegnato da far venire il sospetto che Anderson abbia preferito evitare qualsiasi brutta notizia per non sporcare la confezione ottimista del pacchetto editoriale. Eppure la logica del processo brillantemente descritta lascia più di un dubbio sul <strong>futuro radioso promesso</strong>.</p>
<p>Come ha spiegato <strong>Yochai Benkler</strong>, studioso di Harvard, i bassi costi della distribuzione in rete e la facilità della comunicazione online hanno aperto le porte di svariati campi a milioni di individui animati da motivazioni non pecuniarie (dalla passione al divertimento). Risultato: grazie a Internet una serie di domini che fino a ieri erano solo «economici» oggi sono anche «sociali», come la realizzazione di un enciclopedia (Wikipedia), la produzione di software (l&#8217;open source), l&#8217;informazione (blog e siti dal basso).</p>
<p>E allora, hai voglia di elencare in appendice 50 modelli di business disponibili, stilare liste di «tattiche» e di «regole» per sfruttare le opportunità aperte della gratuità portata dai bit. Il punto, alla fine, è che comunque la si giri, in molti settori lo<strong> spazio dell&#8217;azione meramente economica si restringe</strong>, si amplia quello non monetario e la torta dei profitti esce dal forno digitale più piccola.</p>
<p>Gratis si ferma un passo prima di trarre queste conseguenze e indagarle. Peccato. Forse è la preoccupazione di non disturbare troppo l&#8217;umore di uomini d&#8217;affari già disorientati dall&#8217;avanzata del digitale. O forse la resistenza ad ammettere che, in fondo, quella dell&#8217;abbondanza non è proprio una vera economia. E che definirla così è solo l&#8217;estremo tentativo di infilare a forza la logica del <strong>«nudo e freddo pagamento in contanti»</strong> (per dirla con Marx) in spazi dove questo non è più la motivazione sovrana dell&#8217;azione degli individui.</p>
<p><strong>Raffaele Mastrolonardo</strong></p>
<p><em>Artico﻿﻿lo pubblicato originariamente su il manifesto del 20 novembre 2009</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[What I Learned About The Long Tail And How I Saw It In Singapore]]></title>
<link>http://lettersfromtheporch.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/what-i-learned-about-the-long-tail-and-how-i-saw-it-in-singapore/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kziqi</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[photo by You Need Style I’m very late into reading Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail: Why The Future Of]]></description>
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<p>I’m very late into reading Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail: Why The Future Of Business Is Selling Less Of More, and I it’s one of the best (if not the best) I’ve read this year. All through the books were “aha” moments that make so much sense when you look at media and commerce on the Internet, and the physical world.<br />
For those who’ve been preached to death about the Long Tail, please bear with me while I paraphrase Chris’ explanation of The Long Tail. The way I understood it, economies are shifting from domination by hit-based, one size fits all, to the emergence and success of niche goods that make up the true majority of any given market.<br />
Three forces make this possible:</p>
<ul>
<li> Democratized production</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Democratized distribution</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Supply and Demand connected</li>
</ul>
<h2>The Long Tail Of Temple Worshipers</h2>
<p>As a result of reading the book, I attempted to see long tail effects around me, and voila, saw a mini-long tail story in the local Straits Times yesterday.<br />
For the most part, Buddhists in Singapore head to well-established temples in Singapore, the same way Muslims go to mosques, Christians to their churches, and Indians to the Indian temples.</p>
<p>With Buddhist temples however, Yen Feng and Feng Zengkun realized that <a href="http://lushhomemedia.com/2009/11/20/religion-finds-a-place-in-red-light-area/" target="_blank">many micro-temples are appearing in numbers throughout Singapore’s famous red-light district, Geylang</a>. These have appeared for a number of reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>Strict zoning laws for institutions registered as temples per se. (Scarcity of physical space) Micro-temples apply for more flexible zoning as associations instead</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> Micro temples cater to the seniors who are unable to climb high temple steps that are a feature of the larger temples. (There is no one-size fits all solution)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Having a large body of micro-temples in one area serves the varying needs of the community. (The same way CDBaby and ITunes does this for music fans online)</li>
</ul>
<p>This shouldn’t be a surprise in the late 2000s, when people are exploring their own unique interests, rejecting the majority / mass media solution of “one-size-fits-all”. Micro-temples are a lot easier to set up as compared to the humongous temples we’ve seen around Singapore. We are seeing transportation getting efficient day-by-day, with the upcoming Circle Line and electronic bus-reporting times at bus stops. Having micro-services in one area adds too convenience too.<br />
Chris Anderson simplifies the rules to creating thriving Long Tail businesses as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Make everything available</li>
<li> Help me find it</li>
</ul>
<p>Which can be expanded into:</p>
<p>Lowering your costs</p>
<ul>
<li> Move inventory way in… or way out</li>
<li>Let customers do the work</li>
</ul>
<p>Thinking niche</p>
<ul>
<li>One distribution doesn’t fit all</li>
<li>One product doesn’t fit all</li>
<li>One price doesn’t fit all</li>
</ul>
<p>Losing control</p>
<ul>
<li>Share information</li>
<li>Think “and” not “or”</li>
<li> Trust the market to do your job</li>
<li>Understand the power of free</li>
</ul>
<p>Will this happen for the other religious groups in Singapore? Micro-churches, mosques and Indian temples?  The use of Facebook, Twitter, Meetup.com, and other social media? We’ve already seen the emergence of churchgoers attending services online, so it might become an emergent trend, probably by word of mouth.</p>
<p>I do think Geylang is Singapore&#8217;s most colorful quarter. For friends traveling in Singapore, stop by if you&#8217;ve only got <em>one </em>day here.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Il mondo in rete]]></title>
<link>http://sottoosservazione.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/il-mondo-in-rete/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sottoosservazione</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[IL GURU DI INTERNET CHE SCOPRE LA GRATUITÀ C&#8217;è l&#8217;economia della scarsità fisica, quella ]]></description>
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<p>C&#8217;è l&#8217;economia della scarsità fisica, quella in cui gli esseri umani hanno trascorso la gran parte della loro storia. E poi c&#8217;è quella dell&#8217;abbondanza digitale nella quale abbiamo cominciato a vivere solo da qualche anno. La prima funziona seguendo la teoria economica classica; la seconda si muove secondo regole in gran parte ancora da scrivere che poco hanno a che fare con i testi sacri della «scienza triste». Per capire lo scarto basta andare in edicola, sfogliare quintali di carta pieni di informazioni a pagamento e poi farsi un giro online per trovare la stessa informazione (e anche di più), solo gratis.<br />
La differenza non è da poco e non è casuale. È anzi la caratteristica distintiva della «rivoluzione» innescata dalla rete che trasforma tutto quello che può in bit, immateriali e facili da trasportare, e rende abbondanti beni che prima erano scarsi.<br />
A pensarla così, fra gli altri, è Chris Anderson, direttore del mensile Wired e acclamato guru della rete, sbarcato in Italia con la sua ultima fatica, Gratis (Rizzoli, 19,50 euro). Nel precedente e fortunato saggio, La coda lunga, raccontava come cambia il business nell&#8217;era dell&#8217;abbondanza immateriale quando, senza le costrizioni dello spazio e degli scaffali fisici, prodotti che si rivolgono a pochi possono essere economicamente attraenti come quelli di massa.<br />
In Gratis Anderson fa un passo ulteriore. Il futuro della maggior parte dei beni digitali, dice, è marchiato da una sola cifra: lo zero. Il cuore dell&#8217;argomento del nuovo libro è puro materialismo tecnologico. A portarci nel regno della gratuità saranno quei processi in virtù dei quali il prezzo dei supporti di memoria, della banda di trasmissione e dei processori, vale a dire l&#8217;architrave di ogni erogazione di servizi web, si dimezza in un periodo compreso tra i 9 e i 18 mesi. A questi ritmi il costo marginale della distribuzione di bit scivola verso lo zero e le aziende più aggressive si comportano di conseguenza, dando via beni digitali senza chiedere nulla in cambio. <!--more--><br />
Chi fino a ieri prosperava su quello che è destinato a perdere valore non deve però preoccuparsi. Basta seguire i consigli del libro e andare a caccia di quella che l&#8217;autore definisce «scarsità adiacente». Ovvero: non chiedere soldi online per quello che prima o poi qualcun altro regalerà ma trova una fonte di remunerazione collegata. In una parola, freemium: «con una mano dona e con l&#8217;altra fatti pagare».<br />
Più facile a dirsi che a farsi, ma qualcuno lo fa. Google, per esempio, fattura miliardi con la pubblicità online e offre gratis YouTube, Google News e il servizio di posta elettronica Gmail. Flickr, sito di condivisione di foto, è gratis per tutti tranne per quei pochi che sono disposti a spendere per funzionalità aggiuntive. La prestigiosa conferenza «Ted», invece, aumenta la sua popolarità pubblicando gratuitamente i video dei relatori sul web e chiede migliaia di dollari per assistere dal vivo ai convegni e godere del privilegio di conversazioni interessanti nei corridoi.<br />
Pochi sanno impacchettare le idee con la maestria del direttore di Wired e del suo staff di editor. Gratis tiene in perfetto equilibrio teoria (vedi le riflessioni sulla strategia di massimizzazione della distribuzione di Google) ed esempi pratici (le band di tecnobrega, genere musicale brasiliano, che accettano la vendita sottocosto dei loro cd nelle strade considerandola pubblicità per le performance dal vivo). Alterna con sapienza storie individuali (King Gillette che fa fortuna vendendo sotto costo rasoi e guadagnando sulle lamette) ed excursus storici sul concetto di «zero», dai babilonesi fino ai giorni nostri.<br />
Tutto così perfetto e ben congegnato da far venire il sospetto che Anderson abbia preferito evitare qualsiasi brutta notizia per non sporcare la confezione ottimista del pacchetto editoriale. Eppure la logica del processo brillantemente descritta lascia più di un dubbio sul futuro radioso promesso.<br />
Come ha spiegato Yochai Benkler, studioso di Harvard, i bassi costi della distribuzione in rete e la facilità della comunicazione online hanno aperto le porte di svariati campi a milioni di individui animati da motivazioni non pecuniarie (dalla passione al divertimento). Risultato: grazie a Internet una serie di domini che fino a ieri erano solo «economici» oggi sono anche «sociali», come la realizzazione di un enciclopedia (Wikipedia), la produzione di software (l&#8217;open source), l&#8217;informazione (blog e siti dal basso).<br />
E allora, hai voglia di elencare in appendice 50 modelli di business disponibili, stilare liste di «tattiche» e di «regole» per sfruttare le opportunità aperte della gratuità portata dai bit. Il punto, alla fine, è che comunque la si giri, in molti settori lo spazio dell&#8217;azione meramente economica si restringe, si amplia quello non monetario e la torta dei profitti esce dal forno digitale più piccola.<br />
Gratis si ferma un passo prima di trarre queste conseguenze e indagarle. Peccato. Forse è la preoccupazione di non disturbare troppo l&#8217;umore di uomini d&#8217;affari già disorientati dall&#8217;avanzata del digitale. O forse la resistenza ad ammettere che, in fondo, quella dell&#8217;abbondanza non è proprio una vera economia. E che definirla così è solo l&#8217;estremo tentativo di infilare a forza la logica del «nudo e freddo pagamento in contanti» (Marx) in spazi dove questo non è più la motivazione sovrana dell&#8217;azione degli individui.</p>
<p>Raffaele Mastrolonardo</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ilmanifesto.it/il-manifesto/in-edicola/numero/20091120/pagina/11/pezzo/265169/" target="_blank">Il Manifesto<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Noble fight or lost cause?]]></title>
<link>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/20/noble-fight-or-lost-cause/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>macleans.ca</dc:creator>
<guid>http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/20/noble-fight-or-lost-cause/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wells: In Kandahar, they actually poll the residents quite frequently about how they feel. Kandahar ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gratis]]></title>
<link>http://zerosiuns.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/gratis/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zerosiuns</dc:creator>
<guid>http://zerosiuns.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/gratis/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Som addictes al &#8220;gratis&#8221;. Sí, sens dubte, Internet ens està malacostumant a que no haguem de pagar per gairebé res. Hi ha tantes empreses, tantes pàgines web que competeixen pel nostre temps i els nostres ulls que les que són de pagament sembla que no puguin ni competir.</p>
<p>Películes gratuites, <a href="http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/curiosidades/secreto-libros-mas-vendidos.html">llibres gratuits</a> (44 dels 50 llibres de Kindle més venuts a Amazon són gratuits), <a href="http://meneame.net/">augments de visites gratuits</a>, jocs gratuits,  <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/17/digg-ceo-adelson-i-dont-think-people-expect-to-pay-for-news-any-more/?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&#38;utm_content=Google+Reader">informació gratuita</a> (el CEO de Digg, Jay Adelson) ha dit aquesta setmana que creu que ningú vol pagar per les notícies). Rupert Murdoch, polemitzador com pocs, es originador de molts rumors: que si s&#8217;establiran barreres de pagament per accedir a totes les pàgines de la News Corp., que si <a href="http://www.enriquedans.com/2009/11/el-hombre-que-quiere-romper-internet.html?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ElBlogDeEnriqueDans+%28El+Blog+de+Enrique+Dans%29&#38;utm_content=Google+Reader">deixaran de ser indexades</a> per Google per passar a ser exclusivament indexades per <a href="http://www.bing.com">Bing</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>L&#8217;altre dia, passejant per la Fnac, vaig veure el llibre de Chris Anderson, Free, en la seva versió en paper. Aquest llibre, irònicament, està disponible per descarregar gratuitament (a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/">Scribd</a>, actualment només per a usuaris d&#8217;Estats Units). Per què pagar per allò que pots aconseguir gratuitament? Per què comprar un DVD si ens podem baixar la película comòdament, sense sortir de casa?</p>
<p>La inèrcia porta a que el cost, a Internet, tendeixi a zero. Però hi ha costos involucrats a mantenir actius tots aquests productes i serveis gratuits, i no crec que sigui la publicitat la solució per costejar tot aquest embolic. Tampoc crec que els micropagaments siguin el messies esperat, ja que està demostrar que fins i tot els preus símbolics són <a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/blnk/">disuasoris</a>. M&#8217;agradaria poder proposar una solució revolucionària, però no puc. Hi seguim pensant.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Warriors want Steph Curry at the helm; best. decision. ever.]]></title>
<link>http://fantastiksports.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/the-warriors-want-steph-curry-at-the-helm-best-decision-ever/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fantastiksports</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fantastiksports.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/the-warriors-want-steph-curry-at-the-helm-best-decision-ever/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[New reports. Even after dealing Steph Jackson (yes, I am calling him Steph Jackson) to the Bobcats, ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media, So Far...Glorymar, I am with you..]]></title>
<link>http://girliegirl1965.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/social-media-so-far-glorymar-i-am-with-you/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>girliegirl1965</dc:creator>
<guid>http://girliegirl1965.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/social-media-so-far-glorymar-i-am-with-you/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Gloymar’s, I am with you..  When we were asked for our thoughts about social media so far, I gave pa]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://girliegirl1965.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/socialmedia.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-287" title="socialmedia" src="http://girliegirl1965.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/socialmedia.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>Gloymar’s, I am with you..  When we were asked for our thoughts about<strong> </strong><a title="social media" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" target="_self">social media</a> so far, I gave pause to the many terms, tools, and discoveries that we have learned over the course of the semester.</p>
<p>Before <a title="social media" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" target="_self">social media</a> class, I am not sure how I would have defined the term “<a title="long tail" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail" target="_self">long-tail</a>”.  <a href="http://girliegirl1965.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/long_tail_graph.gif"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-286" title="long_tail_graph" src="http://girliegirl1965.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/long_tail_graph.gif?w=150" alt="" width="150" height="108" /></a></p>
<p>I am certain that I would not have thought of it as a retailing concept describing the <a title="niche" href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Niche" target="_self">niche </a>strategy of selling a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities, but now thanks to <a title="social media" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" target="_self">social media </a>class and <a title="Chris Anderson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Anderson_(writer)" target="_self">Chris Anderson</a>, its people like me who continue to give credence and validity to the <a title="Long tail" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail" target="_self">long tail</a> concept.  Thus, I am not a shopaholic.  From here on out, I am going to affectionately refer to myself as a constant <a href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/search?q=connoisseur&#38;spell=1&#38;access=p&#38;output=xml_no_dtd&#38;site=YourDictionary&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;client=LoveToKnow">connoisseur</a> of online vendors like <a title="ebay" href="http://www.ebay.com" target="_self">Ebay.com,</a> <a title="amazon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com" target="_self">Amazon.com</a>, <a title="netfix" href="http://www.netflix.com/Default" target="_self">Netflix.com</a>, and more. </p>
<p>Can we talk about <a title="google reader" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader" target="_self">Google Reader</a>?  The thought of knowing all of the <a title="websites" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website" target="_self">websites</a> that I visit on a daily basis are being streamed into one big database, and none of  my nosy colleagues can see what I am looking at&#8211;talk about online heaven. </p>
<p>Let’s not forget about <a title="blogs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs" target="_self">blogs</a>. There is something really liberating about writing a <a title="blogs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs" target="_self">blog</a>.   While sort of like a <a title="diary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary" target="_self">diary</a>, to me a blog is a less restrictive and a lot more inviting.  A traditional <a title="diary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary" target="_self">diary</a> is usually kept under lock and key for your eyes only, but a blog provides a platform to let it all hangout.  Moreover, it invites comments.  Not that I really want to go back and forth with someone in the <a title="blogosphere" href="http://www.blogospherenews.com" target="_self">blogosphere</a>, but there is sense of community so why not?  I just have to remember to<a title="link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink" target="_self"> link</a>, <a title="link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink" target="_self">link</a>, and<a title="link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink" target="_self"> link</a> some more if I want to drive traffic.</p>
<p>Now, my <a title="social media" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" target="_self">social media</a> favorite is <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://www.wikipedia.org" target="_self">Wikipedia</a>.  <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> is the online <a title="enclyclopedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia" target="_self">encyclopedia</a> where I can learn everything about almost anything.  Yes, I have to remember that it’s a <a title="crowdsourcing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing" target="_self">crowd-sourced</a> tool and that everyone has access it, and I can’t refer to it as the gospel truth, but it’s informative and feeds my curiosity. </p>
<p>Ahh, good old <a title="social media" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" target="_self">social media</a>.  Glorymar, what did we do before it?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Perché usare Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://blaterandom.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/perche-usare-twitter/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pasquale Lorusso</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blaterandom.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/perche-usare-twitter/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter è un servizio di microblogging, semplicissimo da spiegare. Si scrivono messaggi in 140 carat]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a></strong> è un servizio di <em>microblogging</em>, semplicissimo da spiegare. Si scrivono messaggi in <strong>140 caratteri</strong>, che vengono letti dai <em>followers</em>, ossia dalle persone che seguono il nostro feed.<br />
A nostra volta, possiamo seguire i feed di altri utenti. In tal modo si genera un <strong>flusso completamente personalizzato</strong> di notizie e commenti, scegliendo i contenuti in base agli autori.<br />
La recente possibilità di creare le liste consente di dividere per categorie gli autori stessi, garantendo all&#8217;utente un accesso rapido alle <strong>novità</strong> della sezione di interesse.</p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3486977626_d5396cf35d.jpg" alt="twitter" /></div>
<p><!--more-->Al <em>mantra</em> spesso ripetuto, che definisce i social media completamente inutili, basta controbattere che anche alcune delle testate giornalistiche nazionali sono di recente sbarcate su Twitter, e testate internazionali come <strong>New York Times</strong> (<a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/nytimes">@NyTimes</a>) e <strong>BBC News</strong> (<a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/BBCworld">@BBCWorld</a>) <em>twittano</em> già da tempo.<br />
Ciò non vuol dire che si debba scegliere di seguire solo i feed delle testate online. Anzi. Se così fosse, useremmo Twitter come un &#8220;semplice&#8221; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pctuner.net/articoli/web-business/1335/Google-Reader-vs-Feed-Reader-Confronto-fra-due-feed-aggregator/">aggregatore di feed</a>.<br />
Il bello, invece, sta nella possibilità di ricevere anche <strong>suggerimenti su servizi</strong>, battute ironiche, commenti veloci su un fatto di cronaca, <em><strong>breaking news</strong></em> e tanto altro.<br />
Noi stessi, pubblicando sul nostro feed, diventiamo parte integrante del flusso informativo, generando notizie, commenti, risposte e idee che, a loro volta, gli altri leggeranno e da cui trarranno spunto.<br />
I messaggi, dalla cronaca alla tecnologia, dai social network ai media tradizionali, su Twitter si propagano con una <strong>velocità maggiore della media della Rete</strong>, arrivando molto prima ai destinatari.<br />
La caratteristica di limitare i messaggi a soli 140 caratteri, anche se rimane un punto debole se si punta all&#8217;approfondimento, diventa il <strong>punto di forza</strong> nell&#8217;ottica dell&#8217;<strong>immediatezza</strong>.<br />
140 caratteri (<strong>meno di un sms</strong>) bastano a sintetizzare il <em>lead</em> della notizia o il commento, rinviando ogni approfondimento ai link, che quasi sempre si aggiungono al messaggio, o ad aggiornamenti successivi.<br />
Conosco l&#8217;obiezione: molti utenti non usano Twitter e gli altri network per scopi positivi o propositivi, ma per riempire il web di <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wordreference.com/enit/crap"><em>crap</em></a>, per usare l&#8217;espressione con cui il direttore di <em>Wired US</em> ieri ha definito <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_zaDltn14">gran parte dei video su <em>YouTube</em></a>.<br />
La risposta è <em>scegliere bene</em> gli utenti.</p>
<p>Foto di <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/3486977626/">tsevis</a> &#124; Flickr</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A Cauda Longa]]></title>
<link>http://empreendedorsaude.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/a-cauda-longa/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bartmann</dc:creator>
<guid>http://empreendedorsaude.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/a-cauda-longa/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Livro: A Cauda Longa – A nova dinâmica de marketing e vendas: como lucrar com a fragmentação dos mer]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Seth Godin, Clay Shirky, Charlene Li, Malcom Gladwell, David Weinberger, Robert Scoble e Chris Anderson sono al Cowo. ]]></title>
<link>http://coworkingmilano.com/2009/11/13/seth-godin-clay-shirky-charlene-li-david-weiberger-robert-scoble-e-chris-anderson-sono-al-cowo/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>max</dc:creator>
<guid>http://coworkingmilano.com/2009/11/13/seth-godin-clay-shirky-charlene-li-david-weiberger-robert-scoble-e-chris-anderson-sono-al-cowo/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[E ci rimangono (nella nostra libreria, ovviamente!).]]></description>
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<a href="http://coworkingmilano.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/immagine-3.png"><img src="http://coworkingmilano.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/immagine-3.png" alt="Immagine 3" title="Immagine 3" width="467" height="336" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-757" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Chris Anderson - Free (kostenlos downloaden)]]></title>
<link>http://danielkilian1973.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/chris-anderson-free-kostenlos-downloaden/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://danielkilian1973.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/chris-anderson-free-kostenlos-downloaden/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hier ein Link zum KOSTENLOSEN Download des neuesten Bestsellers &#8220;Free&#8221; von Chris Anderso]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Revue de Presse Internet du 2 novembre au 8 novembre 2009]]></title>
<link>http://lastexittomymind.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/revue-de-presse-internet-du-2-novembre-au-8-novembre-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>peetpistol</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lastexittomymind.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/revue-de-presse-internet-du-2-novembre-au-8-novembre-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[C’est parti pour la revue de presse Internet de la semaine dernière. Des articles que j’ai trouvé in]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>C’est parti pour la revue de presse Internet de la semaine dernière. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Des articles que j’ai trouvé intéressant et que je vous conseille de lire. Des liens en anglais et en français.</strong></p>
<p><strong> <a href="http://lastexittomymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/free.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-303" title="free" src="http://lastexittomymind.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/free.jpg" alt="free" width="600" height="279" /></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>1. <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/11/netvibes-goes-from-web-20-to-e.php">Netvibes se rapproche des entreprises en devenant partenaire Sage</a></strong></p>
<p>La start-up revoit son modèle et passe du Web 2.0 à l’Entreprise 2.0</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.silicon.fr/fr/news/2009/11/06/second_life_se_tourne_vers_les_entreprises">Second Life mise aussi sur les applications professionnelles</a></p>
<p>Les entreprises pourront acquérir et échanger des applications ou des biens virtuels spécifiques au cadre du travail avec Second Life Enterprise.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/03/ebays-ceo-donahoe-i-believe-paypal-will-be-bigger-than-ebay">Après la vente de Skype, l’avenir d’eBay passe par Paypal</a></p>
<p>Les perspective sont bien meilleures pour le site de paiement que pour eBay.com</p>
<p>4. <a title="Lien permanent vers Vers des marques générées par les utilisateurs" href="http://www.fredcavazza.net/2009/11/04/vers-des-marques-generees-par-les-utilisateurs/">Vers des marques générées par les utilisateurs</a></p>
<p>Article de Fred Cavazza sur les sites qui font leur marketing à travers leurs clients</p>
<p>5. <a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-murdoch-digital-media-is-not-meeting-minimum-for-google-search-payments">Le deal MySpace/Google ne rapporte pas autant que prévu</a></p>
<p>La perte sera de 100 millions $ par rapport à l’objectif</p>
<p>6. <a href="http://www.silicon.fr/fr/news/2009/11/06/apple_ouvre_sa_premiere_boutique_a_paris">Apple ouvre sa première boutique à Paris</a></p>
<p>Alors que les ventes de l&#8217;iPhone peinent en Chine, Apple mise sur ses magasins.</p>
<p>7. <a href="http://www.building43.com/videos/2009/07/28/revenue-bootcamp-chris-anderson">La gratuité selon Chris Anderson [Vidéo]</a></p>
<p>Chris Anderson explique son concept de “Free” à la conférence Garage Technology Ventures.</p>
<p>8. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-us-virtual-goods-revenue-estimates-2009-11">La vente d’objets virtuels est sur le point d’exploser au Etats-Unis</a></p>
<p>Après l’Asie, le phénomène atteint enfin les US</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><strong>et en bonus</strong></p>
<p>9. <a href="http://www.glamour.com/women-of-the-year/2009/marissa-mayer">Marissa Mayer sur un gros ballon rouge !</a></p>
<p>La vice-présidente de Google est élue femme de l’année 2009 par Glamour Magazine</p>
<p><strong>Bonne semaine à tous !</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Freeconomics: Why $0.00 is the future of business]]></title>
<link>http://tlt.fandm.edu/2009/11/08/freeconomics-why-0-00-is-the-future-of-business/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Oscar Retterer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tlt.fandm.edu/2009/11/08/freeconomics-why-0-00-is-the-future-of-business/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price, Wired magazine editor-in-chief and author Chris And]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp/1401322905/">Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price</a>, <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired magazine</a> editor-in-chief and author <a href="http://leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=373">Chris Anderson</a> makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company’s survival.</p>
<p><em>Free</em> for <a href="http://www.scribd.com/mobile/documents/19635440?query=Chris+Anderson">free</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Earning Your NBA Part 4: The Northwest Division]]></title>
<link>http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/earning-your-nba-part-4-the-northwest-division/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>The Kids</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Before we start Part 4 of the NBA, a word from our sponsors: Smurf the Yankees. Ok, now that that]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Before we start Part 4 of the NBA, a word from our sponsors:</p>
<p>Smurf the Yankees.</p>
<p>Ok, now that that&#8217;s out of the way, let&#8217;s continue with <em>The Kids Don&#8217;t Get It </em>NBA 09-10 Season Preview: an in-depth look at each NBA team this season, <em>The Kids</em> style: high on hilarity, low on substance. Sort of like Barack&#8217;s presidency so far.</p>
<p>Ok, whatevs, let&#8217;s do this!</p>
<div id="attachment_1960" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1960" title="tramp_stamp_biblical_love1" src="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tramp_stamp_biblical_love1.jpg?w=300" alt="tramp_stamp_biblical_love1" width="300" height="234" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Is there room for KOBE BEEF?</p></div>
<p><a href="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/earning-your-nba-part-1-the-atlantic-division/">uno</a>&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/earning-your-nba-part-2-the-central-division/">dos</a>&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/earning-your-nba-part-3-the-southeast-division/">tres</a>&#8230;..</p>
<p>&#8230;.and here&#8217;s cuatro.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Northwest Division (Denver, Oklahoma City, Portland, Utah, Minnesota)</strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Denver Nuggets:</span> The Denver Nuggets are the All-Tattoo team of the NBA. I mean, there&#8217;s a lot of people in the league with tattoos&#8211;even Commissioner David Stern has a tramp-stamp that says &#8220;<strong>KOBE BEEF</strong>&#8221; with a
<div id="attachment_1958" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1958" title="chris-anderson-birdman" src="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/chris-anderson-birdman.jpg?w=300" alt="chris-anderson-birdman" width="300" height="168" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Chris Anderson looks into his future.....</p></div>
<p>down-arrow&#8211;but the Nuggets probably take the cake. There&#8217;s the two biggest offenders: JR Smith and Chris Anderson. JR Smith is a guy so covered in ink he&#8217;s black by default. Then there&#8217;s Chris &#8220;Birdman&#8221; Anderson, who looks like he spends his weekend chasing colored kids away from his trailer. Together these boys look like they should have been cast in <em>Eastern Promises.</em> Anyway, the Nuggets drafted Baltimore&#8217;s own Carmelo Anthony to be their franchise star, and for the last 6 years, Carmelo&#8217;s had to deal with not only his <em>Eastern Promises</em> teammates, but going from Charm City&#8211;home of Ray Lewis Shanking Club&#8211;to one of the worst <em>Real World</em> locations ever. And his wife is named &#8220;La-La&#8221;. Does that seem fair? I guess it must be fun to at least say &#8220;I&#8217;m in La-La&#8230;&#8230;.land.&#8221;</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Oklahoma City Thunder: </span>Annie get your gun&#8211;there&#8217;s NBA playas on the loose! The Oklahoma City Thunder were originally the Seattle Supersonics&#8211;through a series of mishandlings and poor planning&#8211;with a healthy dose of evilness&#8211;they were displaced and relocated faster than you can say &#8220;Katrina&#8221;. The Oklahoma City Thunder are led by Kevin Durant, who is about as muscular as Olive Oyl&#8211;but smooth as a baby&#8217;s behind. Because they&#8217;re a new team though, and extremely young, the Thunder have been pretty <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1965" title="old-tattoo-man" src="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/old-tattoo-man1.jpg?w=224" alt="...and sees this." width="224" height="300" />bad since moving to OKC. Last season the OKC Thunder only won 23 games out of a possible 82, giving them a win % of .280 and enough losses to win &#8220;Prized Pig&#8221; on NBC&#8217;s <em>Biggest Loser.</em> This year, they&#8217;re projected to win more games, but even if they don&#8217;t, they at least have a cute personality.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Portland Trailblazers:</span> are one of the youngest teams in the NBA. Or so it would seem. Upon closer look though, the &#8216;Blazers are getting older, and weirder. Sure, you have young&#8217;un Brandon Roy&#8211;he&#8217;s the team&#8217;s
<div id="attachment_1962" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 275px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1962" title="oden" src="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/oden.jpg" alt="oden" width="265" height="208" /><p class="wp-caption-text">First freed Black man, Greg Oden.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1961" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1961" title="andre101" src="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/andre101.jpg?w=300" alt="andre101" width="300" height="228" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Shouldn&#39;t that say &#34;Pryor&#34;?</p></div>
<p>leader and franchise player&#8211;and you have LaMarcus &#8220;I have to be in the NBA with this name&#8221; Aldridge at PF. But then the Blazers made two decidedly un-youthful moves over the last couple of seasons. First, they got Greg Oden who is supposedly a 21-yr-old 7-ft&#8217;er from Ohio State, yet strangely looks like a cross between a Tree Ent from the Lord of the Rings, and a black Benjamin Buttons. When man discovered fire, Oden was</p>
<p>the one rubbing the sticks. Then, this off-season they signed former 76ers PG, Andre Miller, who I&#8217;m trying to collect DNA samples from to prove that someone&#8217;s actually cloned Richard Pryor and asked him to run point. All this and a town of self-righteous hippies who&#8217;d rather listen to NPR make this Portland team one to watch.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Utah Jazz:</span> Next to Milwaukee, Utah, specifically Salt Lake City, must be the
<div id="attachment_1966" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 220px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1966  " title="carlos-boozer" src="http://kidsdontgetit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/carlos-boozer.jpg" alt="carlos-boozer" width="210" height="210" /><p class="wp-caption-text">PF Karl Malone.</p></div>
<p>worst possible place to end up if you&#8217;re a young black NBA stud. Actually I  think it might be worse just because they&#8217;ve got Mormons there. And once Karl Malone retired, not only did the state&#8217;s black population decrease 100%, the time there scarred him so much he&#8217;s living in the woods now! Nowadays the Jazz have PG Deron Williams and PF Carlos Boozer, though fans like to interchangeably call them &#8220;Karl Malone&#8221;. And by &#8220;like to&#8221; I mean &#8220;they think he&#8217;s still</p>
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<p>playing&#8221;. Because there&#8217;s so few blacks there. And because they&#8217;re a whole lot of white people.</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Somebody Has to Say It (10/100)]]></title>
<link>http://theyanec.com/2009/11/04/somebody-has-to-say-it/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yaniv Yaakubovich</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Update: As I was reading the post again I realized the title doesn&#8217;t really fit The Less-Than-]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Update: As I was reading the post again I realized the title doesn&#8217;t really fit</p>
<h4><span style="color:#000080;">The Less-Than-Free model could be a chapter in Chris Anderson&#8217;s <a title="Wired - Free's audiobook" href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer" target="_blank">Free.</a> </span></h4>
<p>Benchmark Capita&#8217;s Bill Gurley post <a title="Chris Burley - Less Than Free" href="http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/10/29/google-redefines-disruption-the-%E2%80%9Cless-than-free%E2%80%9D-business-model/" target="_blank">Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model</a> earlier today. It quickly became a hot topic and defined a new business model.</p>
<p>In his post Bill describe the disruptive model used by Google to distribute its <a title="Android platform - homepage" href="http://www.android.com/" target="_blank">Android</a> operation system for mobile phones. Google offers the system free of charge and will split their ad revenue with the developers.</p>
<p>The <strong>Less-Than-Free</strong> model is also relevant to the debate between Anderson and Gladwell, which I described in my <a title="Yaniv - Free" href="http://theyanec.com/2009/07/01/free/" target="_self">Free post</a> &#8211; Will newspaper be able to build a Less-Than-Free model to improve their distribution both online and off line?</p>
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<td><a title="Amazon - free" href="http://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp/1401322905" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.longtail.com/freecover.png" alt="Free" width="167" height="256" /></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveman692/3840066085/">It&#8217;s a giant cupcake and Android! (@ Googleplex &#8211; B44)</a>, by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/daveman692/">David Recordon</a>.</td>
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<p><span style="color:#ff9900;">If you enjoyed the post, please consider sharing it or <a href="http://theyanec.com/2009/11/03/somebody-has-to-say-it/#comments">leaving a comment</a>, and come back tomorrow for the next post in <a href="http://theyanec.com/2009/10/15/the-100-posts-challenge/">The 100 Posts Challenge</a>.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[# Reponse seven#: Power to the people]]></title>
<link>http://antonellaweyler.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/power-to-the-people/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>antonellaweyler</dc:creator>
<guid>http://antonellaweyler.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/power-to-the-people/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The most valuable issue that I’ve learnt so far this semester is how social media is reshaping the w]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The most valuable issue that I’ve learnt so far this semester is how social media is reshaping the way we communicate, and mainly how it shifts the power towards the people, resulting in a more democratic society.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.cluetrain.com/">Cluetrain Manifesto</a> we’ve learnt a key lesson: markets are conversation. With the internet, the silence imposed by the mass production and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_marketing">mass marketing</a>  advents, is coming to an end<em>. </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>“On the Internet, markets are getting more connected and more powerfully vocal every day. (…) Connected, they reclaim their voice in the market, but this time with more reach and wider influence than ever.”</strong>(Chapter four)</em> </p></blockquote>
<p>However, corporations are still dealing with the markets as something distance, as targets to be reached, and the internet is seen as just another channel to broadcast the message. They are afraid to join this conversation and <a href="http://altitudebranding.com/2009/07/on-social-media-and-culture-shift/">lose control</a>.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, we are entering a new era in which the <a href="http://www.worldtrans.org/TP/TP1/TP1-17.HTML">one way communication model</a> is becoming obsolete: the faith on <a href="http://www.briansolis.com/2009/07/the-decline-of-advertising-and-the-rise-of-social-media/">advertising is declining</a>; meanwhile the faith on individuals is increasing. According to Chris Anderson in “<a href="http://www.longtailbook.co.uk/">The Long tail</a>”:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>“<em>we are leaving the information age</em> </strong><em><strong>and entering to the </strong><a href="http://www.canadianmarketingblog.com/archives/2007/10/the_age_of_recommendation.html"><strong>recommendation age</strong></a><strong>.”</strong> (p.98)</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Peer by peer review are getting and incredible importance. A <a href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/most-consumers-read-and-rely-on-online-reviews-companies-must-adjust-2234/deloitte-consumer-review-product-purchases-influencedjpg/">study</a> shows that 62 percent of consumers read consumer-written reviews online, and 82 percent of them said their purchasing decisions are influenced by customer reviews. </p>
<p>This change reaches far beyond than just representing that we are now more <a href="http://chiefmarketer.com/crm/passionistas_empowered_customers_0304">empowered consumers</a>. It indicates that we are more connected, and not only receiving, but also <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/02/19/user-generated-content-growth">producing information</a>. It ultimately represents a shift in the power, from big institutions to the people.  In <a href="http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/">“We the media”</a> we’ve learnt more about how this power shift is impacting the media industry and the way we produce and consume information.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shirky.com/">Clay Shirky</a>, in <a href="http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/">“Here comes Everybody”</a> goes further and tell us that:</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>“When we change the way we communicate, we change society”</strong> (p.17).</em> </p></blockquote>
<p>Have a look on his thoughts on how collaboration technologies are changing the society, in this brilliant presentation.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/c_iN_QubRs0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/c_iN_QubRs0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>The understanding of how this change in the media and technological landscapes has impacted the way people communicate and behave is crucial for communication professional. Whoever is trying to get a message out, can no longer work with the traditional media frameworks. <a href="http://trendwatching.com/about/inmedia/articles/2009_honesty_is_truly_the_best_poli.html">Transparency</a> and real two-way <a href="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004885.html">conversation</a> are mandatory for those who want to survive this new world. Welcome!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Palestra de Cris Anderson - Cauda Longa]]></title>
<link>http://cadureis.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/palestra-de-cris-anderson-cauda-longa/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Cadu Reis</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cadureis.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/palestra-de-cris-anderson-cauda-longa/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Trechos da palestra em que Chris Anderson fala sobre A Cauda Longa (The Long Tail). Nesta palestra e]]></description>
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<p>Trechos da palestra em que Chris Anderson fala sobre A Cauda Longa (The Long Tail).</p>
<p>Nesta palestra ele comenta sobre o mercado de escassez e abundância (do consumo em massa para o mercado de nichos). Vale a pena conferir.</p>
<p>Abraços e bom feriado</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Disney, Pixar e Marvel]]></title>
<link>http://cibertransistor.com/2009/10/30/disney-pixar-e-marvel/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nuno Ribeiro</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cibertransistor.com/2009/10/30/disney-pixar-e-marvel/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[No passado dia 31 de Agosto, a Disney anunciou a aquisição da Marvel por 4 biliões de dólares e no c]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[So just how do you make money out of serving up a free lunch?]]></title>
<link>http://excapite.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/so-just-how-do-you-make-money-out-of-serving-up-a-free-lunch/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mobcon</dc:creator>
<guid>http://excapite.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/so-just-how-do-you-make-money-out-of-serving-up-a-free-lunch/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard of the old expression: There&#8217;s no such thing as a free lunch! Well]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of the old expression: There&#8217;s no such thing as a free lunch! Well today that&#8217;s apparently no longer true.</p>
<p>Earlier this year Wired&#8217;s Editor in Chief, Chris Anderson, wrote an article and then published the book called <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free" target="_self">Free</a>.  (You may recall that I mentioned last weekend that Chris was presenting the idea at ycombinator&#8217;s <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-wired-editor-chris-anderson-on-freemium-business-models/" target="_self">Start Up School</a>).</p>
<p>Free is all about a business model called Freemium.</p>
<blockquote><p>The idea that giving away free product is not only good marketing it is a great way to build an online business.</p></blockquote>
<p><!--more-->The general idea is to give all or part of your product or service away for free, with or without the support of advertising revenues, and then offer these new customers the chance to step up to a newer, improved model (at a price) later on down the road.</p>
<blockquote><p>In marketing parlance you are in the business of  creating a network of product champions - and where you have champions then loyal customers will follow.</p></blockquote>
<p>The idea of using a free sample is not new to advertising and promotional professionals. It has long been recognised that free offers is one of the most effective ways of attracting a market. The only better way is through word or mouth &#8211; but Advertisers don&#8217;t really like to talk about that one too much for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>Nor, as <a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2006/03/my_favorite_bus.html" target="_self">Fred Wilson</a> has pointed out, is Freemium a new idea in software circles. Many profitable software houses have been built over the past 2 decades using the shareware model.</p>
<p>Om Malik at <a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/how-freemium-can-work-for-your-startup/" target="_self">Gigaom</a> and <a href="http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/01/19/how-to-create-a-profitable-freemium-startup-spreadsheet-model-included/" target="_self">Andrew Chen</a> have both provided some invaluable advice on how Freemium can be a great way to bootstrap a start-up web business.</p>
<p>You should also take a look at <a href="http://www.freshbooks.com" target="_blank">Freshbooks</a>. The Canadian based Freshbooks is one of the great Freemium startups of recent times. Here in his recent post <a href="http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2009/06/08/5-milestones-to-cross-before-raising-venture-capital/" target="_self">milestones to cross before raising venture capital </a> Mike McDerment, the CEO and Co-Founder of Freshbooks, provides some advice and insight for budding startups looking to bootstrap their idea into a business.</p>
<p>Freemium, of course, represents something of a paradox for tradition Venture Capital thinking. The pyramid below illustrates how difficult it is to get the market to pay for a new innovation based on the Big Problems Small Solutions scenario we discussed in the much earlier post: <a href="http://excapite.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/dont-think-strategy-think-like-a-venture-capitalist/" target="_self">Don&#8217;t think Strategy: Think like a VC!</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_867" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 370px"><img class="size-full wp-image-867" title="vpse" src="http://excapite.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vpse.gif" alt="The VC Investment Pyramid" width="360" height="231" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The VC Investment Pyramid</p></div>
<p>The general rule of thumb in VC circles is it is always easy to get customers to pay for information about the problem (think: Magazines then Conferences) than it is to get customers to pay for the solution (think: Industry Reports, Management Consultants or Specialist Training and then Product).</p>
<p>The Freemium paradox says quite simply you don&#8217;t need to pay for any of these steps. It&#8217;s all available for free.</p>
<blockquote><p>As Chris Anderson says&#8230;</p>
<p>The trend lines that determine the cost of doing business online all point the same way: to zero.</p></blockquote>
<p>So life on the web is just a free lunch.</p>
<p>The question is: Is this model sustainable over long term?</p>
<p>Think of a future today where you launch your brand new web 2.0 site or iPhone App for free thinking that in 6 &#8211; 12 months time you&#8217;ll be able to launch a better subscription version to your newly acquired market of Free Champions.</p>
<p>However, when the time comes to launch the new improved version you discover that 10 maybe even 100 other bootstrap startups have now launched their new Freeware offering and it is has more features and benefits than your paid offering.</p>
<p>What is going to happen to your Free Champions? Do they stick around or do they move on? Do they go in search of the next free lunch or do they start paying you for the free lunch you have already provided? What do you think?</p>
<blockquote><p>The reality is Freemium is a game of diminishing returns as each new entrant has to offer the industry benchmark just to gain traction with the Influences and Free Champions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Today software developers are discovering that, if the database is the new media, then applications are the new content.</p>
<p>Applications are fast becoming fashion items, disposable and of limited lifespan. This means developing software apps today is no longer about changing the way people do business but about tapping into how people see and project themselves.</p>
<blockquote><p>This means, although they don&#8217;t know it yet, software companies and their developers are now facing the same crisis that is afflicting newspapers and their journalists.</p></blockquote>
<p>If this really is the case then it is only the customers&#8217; data that offers us a true measure of the value of the Freemium business model. &#8211; And the value of that data all depends on how much it reflects where the customer has been, how much it reflects where the customer is going and how much the customer need access to it tomorrow.</p>
<p>So if your thinking about investing your time, energy and money into a  Freemium business think Data First because, after all is said and done, functionality is just the hook to get the customer in.</p>
<p><em><strong>Further Reading: </strong></em></p>
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<li><a href="http://excapite.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/why-putting-ads-on-the-menu-wont-pay-for-lunch/" target="_self">Why putting ads on the menu won’t pay for lunch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://excapite.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/this-is-how-you-make-money-out-of-a-free-lunch/" target="_self">This is how you make money out of a free lunch!</a></li>
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<title><![CDATA[Class Reflection - How to differentiate content in this “free” space?]]></title>
<link>http://filizefe.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/class-reflection-how-to-differentiate-content-in-this-%e2%80%9cfree%e2%80%9d-space/</link>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>How to differentiate content in this “free” space?</strong></p>
<p>Digital content, regardless of its’ origin, is a type of information. In this sense, content creators produce information. In order to differentiate your information from other information in free space, you need to get into the habit of viewing your content as solely “information”.</p>
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<li><strong>Content should have a place:</strong> You need to collect your content under your domain name or at least on a blog or a SNS page. Think this is your office address on your business card, where you drive people from other locations and redirect people from it.</li>
<li><strong>Content should have neighbors: </strong>There is almost no marginal cost to copy and place your content on different platforms. You need to take place on different platforms (communities) and create links (connections) between your locations. As <a href="http://twitter.com/yush">@yush</a> said &#8220;The Internet connected our hard drives, and social media connected our minds&#8221;. We need to connect with other minds through social media.</li>
<li><strong>Content should be visible:</strong> In other words “searchable”. Every digital content on the internet should be tagged/keywords, linked or embedded in order to increase the potential of visibility.</li>
<li><strong>Content should have a value: </strong>You need to think and create different layers of information to represent your content. Chris Anderson would call creating scarcity in abundance. As <a href="http://twitter.com/kegill">@kegill</a> mentioned in <a href="http://neteconomics.wordpress.com/">COM 548</a>, “It is not easy to make people buy something online, if they find it somewhere else or something close (good) enough”.</li>
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<link>http://proyectosperiodisticos.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/capitulos-a-leer-long-tail/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Aquí van los capítulos que <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>deben leer</strong> </span>para la prueba sobre &#8220;<strong>La economía Long Tail</strong>&#8220;:<br />
1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11 y 14.</p>
<p>El libro está en biblioteca.<br />
Suerte!<br />
Héctor</p>
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