Category Archives: Media & Resources

Robert Scoble vs Facebook (or Freedom of Information vs. Commercial Silo-ing)

By André SC | Published: 3 January 2008
The Robert Scoble vs. Facebook saga is me thinks a taste of some of what is to come in the year and even years ahead. Its the old silo-race rearing its ugly little head again. Basically Facebook is saying you’re allowed to use ‘your’ accounts information as long as you do so manually, thus their [...]
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a recursive marketing strategy

By André SC | Published: 17 August 2007
Blogger’s Review of Online Grocery Shopping Rewarded by BlogKits Review (Marketing geeks will be forgiven for calling this a recursive marketing strategy)
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Redesign of Problogger.net – Nice

By André SC | Published: 13 August 2007
Redesign of Problogger.net I like it lots, the ‘fold-composition’ works very well on a a site like this that actually has enough stuff to justify having a fold. (One day I’ll update this blog’s template)
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Logo design: ClickMaven

By André SC | Published: 3 July 2007
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kiss online radio goodbye, courtesy the Royalty Rates Crisis

By André SC | Published: 16 May 2007
imagine there was a law passed on an ice cream tax, and the tax rate depended on... You can still kiss your favorite on-line radio station goodbye.
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Ebay + Stumble Upon = a Big Deal ?

By André SC | Published: 9 May 2007
eBay has taken the idea of supply chain efficiency off the scale. Now add to eBay one very popular discovery engine with in depth profiling intelligence, and you have the makings of something truly impressive, almost scary.
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Some Ends and Odds of SEO

By André SC | Published: 7 May 2007
ITWEB’s new publication ByteSize, inaugural edition (March 2007) features a nice short and sweet introduction to SEO on page 98, geared like the rest of the publications smartly at the SME context. It closes with a url for a Forrester report based on interviews with 20 companies, including Avenue A | Razorfish. (ByteSize is a [...]
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Awards are flawed. (Updated)

By André SC | Published: 21 March 2007
Do they reflect quality or popularity, neither or both? The truth about awards is that they, like all other forms of competition, are expressions of the dynamics of power, of the politics and principles of the environments they inhabit. They are often about a quick buck, profanely biased and resemble nothing more than the average [...]
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Contempo about design, art and society

By André SC | Published: 21 June 2006
Contempo, (nice site styling, but all flash is a bit last century in internet years, especially for a purveyor of things contemporary) the new and refreshingly convergent publication presenting homegrown creative style and cultural sophistication is posing an open question around the relationship of art and design. Imposing a 200 word limit is me thinks [...]
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Shirky on Categories, Links, and Tags

By André SC | Published: 8 June 2006
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags, Clay Shirky Starts off a bit wordy, but is as straight forward, accurate and as comprehensive as this kind of essay should be. Clear explenations, though assumes readers know what Flickr and del.icio.us are. Definitely recommended reading for new web developers/designers.
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