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chewing pixels » Videogames about Videogames: Segagaga Released at almost the same moment Sega announced its withdrawal from the console manufacturing business, it’s a game about a console-maker on the verge of collapse, made by a console-maker on the verge of collapse. (tags: chewingpixels corporate game computergames play industry business technology injoke) The Lion-Eating Poet […]

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swissmiss: Renewable Clothing by Fernando Brizio Within an hour – to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it. (tags: fashion swissmiss personalisation)

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The Worst IPO Market on Record? | Business Week In the second quarter of 2008, there were no IPOs for companies with venture capital financing, according to the National Venture Capital Assn. (NVCA). That’s the first time a quarter has passed without an initial public offering since 1978. (tags: venturecapital entrepreneurship IPO businessweek markets economy) […]

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mediation: Smart and Relevant Customer Relationship Building from Atlantic great to see Atlantic putting their CRM where there mouth is and sending me something which is tangible, practical and above all pertinent to the credentials they’re aiming to build. (tags: mediation crm energy directmail directmarketing) Facebook to Users – Let’s Cut Grammatical Errors – NYTimes.com […]

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The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete Google’s founding philosophy is that we don’t know why this page is better than that one: If the statistics of incoming links say it is, that’s good enough. No semantic or causal analysis is required. (tags: wired analytics science chrisanderson data google statistics)

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John McCain Is Way Behind Online | Business Week “McCain’s deputy e-campaign director, Mark SooHoo, responded that McCain was “aware that there is an Internet,” and understands its impact, even though he doesn’t use such new Web tools.” –McCain might want a less funny deputy e-campaign director. (tags: america businessweek mccain obama publicrelations marketing online […]

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adliterate: The work fights back In the short term it left our best shops with huge financial write-offs as bankrupt clients proved unable to pay their bills. In the longer term a far more cautious market destroyed the enthusiasm of clients to buy truly excellent creative work and the am (tags: advertising adliterate agency dotcombust)

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Reverb – Seattle News, Events, Restaurants, Music from Seattle Musicians […] want every effort paid to making their band a household name, as long as they are portrayed as humble back-porch songsmiths who learned to use a telephone so they could call their mothers in prison. (tags: music musicindustry reverb publicrelations marketing authenticity)

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Extract from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami | Health and wellbeing | Life and Health until the feeling that I’ve done a good job in a race returns, I’m going to keep running marathons, and not let it get me down. (tags: harukimurakami running theguardian writing process) Only […]

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RANDOM RANTINGS | lab rats R&D equips you, as a firm, to be better at “stealing” things from others. Because of your investments in R&D, you are better able to really understand the technology and apply it in your own products and processes. (tags: research r&d strategy freekvermeulen innovation)

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