Hapinoy: The Microfinanced Franchise Model (1)
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Sari-sari stores are make-shift local community convenience stores that collectively serve the vast underprivileged majority of the Philippines. There are about 650,000 of them scattered around the nation and virtually all of them are individually owned. For years, ambitious local entrepreneurs have dreamed of consolidating this massive retail category. A bunch of them dreamed with a social conscience and are now finding success with a venture called Hapinoy. Hapinoy seeks to become a “preferred business ...
Social Networks and Spam - ReadWriteWeb (19)
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According to a new report, over the past 12 months more than four-fifths of social networking site users said that they had received unwanted friend requests, messages, or posts on their social or professional network profile. While friend requests on their own seem innocuous enough, they are often just the first step towards whatever the spammers' intended malicious activity is, be it redirects to phishing or malware sites or even just unsolicited advertisements. The Spam ...
Boston PD - "It's obvious that the future of communication is texting" (1)
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Engadget is running a quick post about how Boston, Cincinnati and over 100 other communities have begun using a test message tip-line for law enforcement. I'm a big supporter of moving traditional law enforcement into the digital age, especially since the population is rapidly moving away from telephones as the primary mode of communication. Although the most recent media exposure is centered around citizens sending tips and reports to the police - I believe that ...
How we read online (1)
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Via Lost Remote, I stumbled across this Slate piece on how we read online. Fascinating and pretty much on the mark. So much so that as I was reading it, I found myself skimming through the denser paragraphs and gravitating toward the bullets and short graphs. And I love this quote, comparing people who are reading in a utilitarian, gain-information fashion and those who read for the sheer joy of it: “I suppose ludic (pleasure) ...
Metrics in the networked society (2)
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Ajit Joakar of Open Gardens has posted this In a previous blog, I discussed how Long tail social network analysis could be a business model for Web 2.0 The key insights are a) The Web has a higher CPM since the search is tied to the intent b) For various reasons as indicated in the above blog, we cannot get the same synergies between advertising and social networks c) New metrics are needed in the ...
Second Life: still around, still about community (4)
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Ah, good ol' Second Life. For many marketers, this virtual world (and by association, maybe the others too) has been relegated to the list of 2007 Fads We're Glad Have Passed -- even if it means that those marketers have been a bit too hasty in their rush to judgment. As I've often said Second Life, much like any nascent social computing platform (Twitter, anyone?), is less interesting for what it is (a buggy first ...
Being Smart Does Not a Good Developer Make (1)
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As developers we live in an interesting profession. To put it in more scientific terms our industry is an anomaly, a singularity, if you will. Our industry is certainly fast paced, in fact, with the exception of maybe the biotech industry we probably move faster than any other. Our industry though, arguably, has a much broader effect on the other industries that it is involved with. Our industry is somewhat of a meta-industry, being an ...
Foreclosure Activity In San Francisco As Mapped By Trulia: 7/07/08 (1)
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Over the past five months the number of San Francisco properties in some stage of foreclosure as mapped by Trulia has increased from 409 to 782, and is up from 215 seven months ago. And once again, while the...
Presenting Out of Your League? Try a Fishbowl! (1)
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Recently, I was asked to present at a conference called Student Edge on student engagement and the web. The audience included executives of Student Unions from across Canada and the facilitation process worked more like an unconference than your standard “get up and do a powerpoint” style of conference. Anyway, as I prepared for my presentation I realized there was so much territory I could cover, and most of it would be a 50-50 on ...
5 Blogs Every Web Developer Should Read (4)
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One of the most crucial components of being a web developer is constant education. I have compiled a list of my top 5 favorite web development blogs because, lord knows, there are a lot, and it can be difficult to sort through them all.
Webaroo raises $10 million in another round of funding (1)
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Webaroo has raised $10 million in a recent round of funding for its product SMSGupshup. Webaroo was founded by IIT Bombay alumnus and serial entrepreneurs Rakesh Mathur (founder of Armedia, Junglee, Stratify) and Beerud Sheth (founder of Elance) in 2004. Webaroo is one of the incubatees of SINE, IIT Bombay. I was an intern at Webaroo, contributed to the personalization logic of its products, when they were under development. SMS GupShup is mobile group SMS ...
Your mum is a hacker! (1)
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During the first six months of its release, more than two million iPhones have disappeared – or rather, they were sold, but never activated through AT&T. As we all know, these phones have been hacked to work with other networks in many different countries. With more than two million units cracked, you can follow a lively discussion all over the Internet on the topic of hacking iPhones. For example, Apple’s own discussion board gets flooded ...
Advice for Getting More Hits (1)
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The blog transitioned from personal updates to more education-oriented updates over a period of a few months. The “mundane” now goes to Twitter, while the “meat” goes to the blog. The “mega-meat” goes to the podcast. Here are a few things I’ve learned watching my numbers. Why Posting Frequency Doesn’t Matter It’s more important to have weekly posts with keywords, than daily posts without. I accidentally discovered some rare keyword combos, and the traffic flows ...
Are We Living in a Perfect Storm for Print Media? (17)
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I have been giving a lot of thought lately to what impact rising inflation might have on digital media. One strong possibility is that print will get crimped. Consider this a rather simplistic theory for a Saturday morning. However, it's my view that - as if they didn’t have enough to worry about - newspaper and magazine publishers may see a perfect storm accelerate if gas prices continue to escalate. There are three factors at ...
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Ian Betteridge said:
And once again, a perfect example of the law that states "Any headline with a question mark at the end of it can be answered 'No'"
Top Tech Trends 2008 (4)
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Thanks to the efforts of all involved, we were able to get a very clean soundboard recording of this year’s Top Tech Trends program. Hope that everyone enjoys the recording, and comment and let us know what you think! Without feedback, we can’t tell if you like it or hate it.
Podcasting Boost Radio Audiences (4)
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People are leaving traditional radio behind for on Internet radio and podcasting, but a new UK study suggests that radio stations that embrace podcasting can actually grow their audiences. Research firm Ipsos Mori has found that 10% of those surveyed said they listened to less live radio after starting to download podcasts. However, 15% said they listened to more live radio since they began downloading podcasts, and 39% said they were listening to radio programs ...
LITA Top Technology Trends (1)
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This is going to have to be more of an experiential post than a factual one, I’m afraid… I attended the Top Tech Trends session and it held my attention throughout the whole thing - everything did. From the larger than life images of Karen Coombs and Sarah Houghton-Jan on one screen that flanked the live panel to the scrolling meebo chat room on the other screen, there was a lot to pay attention to! ...
