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“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape « The Metric System

eric — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:25:58 GMT

An intriguing investigation trying to get to the bottom of a tangled network of small dating sites. Strange business practice but apparently very effective.

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Amid the Gloom, an E-Commerce War - NYTimes.com

eric — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:26:42 GMT

A nice historical retelling of the Amazon and Ebay stores and their relative successes and failures.

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Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers

eric — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:07:36 GMT

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Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up

eric — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:22:29 GMT

Quoted: Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion users. It's time to take our personal data out of Mr. McGregor's little gardens and put it back where it belongs -- free and open on the open web.

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Speakeasy - Press Release - Best Buy Acquires Speakeasy

eric — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:46:21 GMT

Best Buy just bought Speakeasy. Noooo! I've always liked Speakeasy but my expectations are now appropriately and cynically lowered.

Quoted: Speakeasy offers superior Voice over IP (VoIP), T1, DSL and a range of broadband services customized for small businesses.

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Amazon's Series of Fortunate Events

eric — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:48:53 GMT

A very favorable, and more detailed article about the importance of Amazon's new web services on Read/WriteWeb. It's really great stuff and it's really catching on.

Quoted: Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus.

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MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0 (Exhaustive Edition) - Valleywag

eric — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:37:27 GMT

I don't think that this is as ground-breaking as the author claims it to be. If you can't figure out that MySpace is a marketing operation, you're really dumb.

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Howstuffworks "Net Neutrality Primer"

eric — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:33:59 GMT

A net neutrality primer. Good reading for getting up to speed on the issue.

Quoted: If you spend any amount of time surfing the Web, you've probably come across the term "net neutrality." But what is it, and why is it stirring up controversy in Congress, the business world and the blogosphere? Here's a quick primer.

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