Cannes short film award winner, on the power of words: http://tinyurl.com/5t4dr8 . Worth a viewing.
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Back when most people lived on farms, there were "snake oil salesmen," who came around to tell residents, one by one, about a cure-all elixir. The salesperson had to be very convincing, and sell as many people as possible in a short time, because the stuff didn't actually work. He had to be in the next town before the people in the previous town discovered the truth.
Fast forward to when people moved...
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There has been a lot of great coverage of the Demandbase launch, especially regarding the new Demandbase Stream™ free desktop tool. One piece in particular could be of interest to B2B marketers...Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market by Laura Ramos at Forrester Research.
Her take on Demandbase Stream is really great, but she goes on to talk about the lead management automation...
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Pulse of the Industry: Blogger Relations Part V Social media marketing combines the innovation of technology and the internet with an old fashion concept .. building customer loyalty by creating stronger relationships through understanding. However, social media as a new marketing strategy is more than a blog or a social network or a tweet. Unlike any marketing technique I know it involves reaching...
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By Paperghost. More here. Alex Eckelberry
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Open-source giant Red Hat has upped the ante in the PC desktop virtualization market with its acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. in a $107-million deal announced this week. This acquisition clearly ups the ante in the race for Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure (VDI) solutions. I used to call VDI "desktop as a service (DaaS)," and still think that works pretty well. Anyay, the Red Hat purchase comes on the heels of HP's major virtualization push announced this week, which includes a large VDI component.
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On September 4, 2008, Docstoc announced its launch of Docstoc MyDocs and Docstoc Sync. Docstoc MyDocs is the best way to store, preview and manage your documents online. With Docstoc MyDocs, you can store ALL your documents privately or publicly...
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The quote below is from this post from ReadWriteWeb
While we are certainly seeing more and more examples of products being given away for free, it is not necessarily a good thing. There are different aspects and faces of free. The Flickr free, which Fred Wilson calls freemium, is the model where the basic version [...]
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I read the New York Times, and magazines like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and web sites like Salon. Each of these, IMO are relatively thoughtful and interesting and a good way to keep up with what’s going on. And I tend to agree with them often. I guess my liberal bias matches their [...]
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Gizmodo shows the first ad, and even though I love Jerry and like Bill, it, indeed, makes no sense.
Maybe I am just to literal minded.
Advertisement: AlertBoot Hard Drive/File Encryption Affordable Data Protection Service for PC’s
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As I sit not working, instead watching the dreaded NY Giants smooshing the Washington Redskins, what comes on the TV but Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates in an absolutely hysterical commercial - at least to me. I don't even know...
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I use Skype a lot to chat with friends and business partners outside the US. It's cheap, and the quality is often better than POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service)-based systems. However today, my Skype client almost bit me.The above message (see screen shot) came in as I was on my normal telephone line and immediately caught my interest.A Security Center warning? Via a Skype client?Now, as the founder...
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On the heels of a critical WashingtonPost article, someone from Estdomains joins the MalwareBytes forum, and claims to be taking action. We’ll just have to watch and see. Alex Eckelberry
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Smart Antivirus 2009 is a new rogue security product and a near clone of AntiSpyware 2008Smart Antivirus 2009 Home pageTypical fake/Scare scan pageList of sites used in this scamSmartantivirus2009. comSmartantivirus-2009. comSmart-antivirus2009. comSmart-antivirus-2009. comSmartantivirus2009buy. comSmart-antivirus2009buy. comSmart-antivirus-2009-buy. comSmart-antivirus-2009buy. comSmart-antivirus2009-buy....
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The following is excerpted from a September 2, 2008 Monsanto press release: Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and Pilot Grove Cooperative Elevator, Inc. announced the settlement of a two-year dispute involving patent infringement. Pilot Grove acknowledged violating Monsanto's patented Roundup Ready...
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I shall be honest - when Cisco came into the wacky world of Fibre Channel, I figured 3-5 years and everyone else was toast. I was wrong. Brocade, a punk little company back then, had to deal with their CEO...
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Sharon McCarthy recently conducted an interesting survey of MENG membersExecutive Summary -Here are the top definitions for the word "interactive", although if you look through the entire list, you could probably group more of the items together....but for our purposes it worked.Just a couple of observations:1. It's amazing how rich this word is - it generated more than 75 different responses...(In her...
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“I’m not a businessman, I’m a BUSINESS man!”
I recently attended an AiMA event (Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association) in which Multi-Channel Marketing was the topic of discussion. “Multi-channel,” “integrated,” “multi-level,” “using different media channels” … same stuff, different terminology. Needless to say, I wasn’t expecting to hear anything groundbreaking. I learned something, however, that shattered my [...]
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The article, of the above title, submitted for publication in December 2007 by Corinne Langinier and Philippe Marcoul states: This paper examines the strategic non-revelation of information by innovators when applying for patents. In a model of a bilateral search...
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Invariably, a post I write about a rogue security product (such as XP Antivirus 2008) makes its way into a Google search result, and people come to my blog thinking I am somehow responsible. But it's painful to see how people get so ripped-off by these extortionists...They pay, but it doesn't seem to matter... How I loath these slimeballs.Alex Eckelberry
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Want to crash Chrome? Kolor, a regular contributor to the blog, had some fun and put the following in the comments: Poof. You can see it yourself, if you're running Chrome, here. Alex Eckelberry
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Someone very clever once wrote, "Human beings are naturally drawn to ‘boundary conditions' " - for example, where land meets water, where the earth touches the sky, where space meets time.In other words, we like to congregate at these boundary conditions; stand on the edge of something and gaze over at something else.Is that why beach houses are so expensive?I feel as though the SaaS market is at one...
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Remember how in Independence Day, the aliens were thwarted by a virus uploaded from Jeff Goldblum's Mac? Wired magazine has a news story out about a recurrence of malware-related activity in the International Space Station. A NASA spokesperson confirmed to Wired yesterday that this was not the first time this has happened."This is not the first time we have had a worm or a virus," NASA spokesman Kelly...
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Google Chrome improves the security profile normally associated with browsers, but it also leaves users exposed to one of the largest vulnerabilities: screen-stealing.Screen-stealing is a real problem and a major objective of spyware and malware developers. It is a great way for criminals to gather information they can use to commit identity fraud, or outright identity theft.Here's some instances...
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