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by aretiste 14y ago
It's just unusual if you think about it. It helps to have been alive in a time before the web was significant. Think of all the companies you give personal information to. Think of how much information you actually give them. Think abou
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by aretiste 14y ago
who was it who said: "it's a fine line between clever and stupid."
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by aretiste 14y ago
the title should be: would the world would be better off with fewer patent trolls?
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by aretiste 14y ago
yes. this is exactly the issue. in fact there are some patent owning institutions who have mandates that prevent them from licensing their patents unless the licensee promises to develop. the licensee can't just sit on the patent and do n
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by aretiste 14y ago
Sell it as a portable display not a laptop. Give it connectivity via a variety of connectors (not just HDMI). It would be far more useful than an iPad. Keep dreaming, right?
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by aretiste 14y ago
"Dumb fucks" - Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook users You can trust Facebook. Why wouldn't you? Facebook is lovely.
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by aretiste 14y ago
2. Things like Adwords have allowed businesses to exist... What sort of businesses? SEO? You fail to to recognise that business directories aka the yellow pages in some countries were around long before Google or Adwords existed. That's w
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by aretiste 14y ago
so you can see why choice of venue is so important. if this were tried outside of "the valley" you would not get people like this on the jury. your comment about anchoring is spot on.
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by aretiste 14y ago
Depends what you're aiming to get out of it.
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by aretiste 14y ago
Not sure how much it relates to the article, but I enjoyed the war story. Good stuff. There's a lot of garabge in online HBR in recent years, mainly on their blogs, as they grovel for traffic like any other site using whatever means possib
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by aretiste 14y ago
When consumers realise they are paying too much (i.e. people in Asia will be paying less for the "same" phones), then things will get more interesting. Apple's patent suits will enable it to charge inflated prices. And that's what they wil
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by aretiste 14y ago
If search engines starting charging I'd teach people to scrape and if necessary to crawl, for free. Others would too. The web is about sharing knowledge. I dare any search engine to start charging. Go for it. They would end up like Twitt
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by aretiste 14y ago
Advertising is now an art form. But not the ads you see on the web. Leave ads to the print, radio and TV folks.