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2013-01-05 16:42:50     The Empire Lobbies Back: How Big Cable Killed Competition in North Carolina | Institute for Local Self-Reliance

http://www.ilsr.org/killing-competition-nc/

After a city in North Carolina built a Fiber-to-the-Home... with Time Warner Cable, the cable giant successfully lob... decision away from other cities.
The city of Wilson’s decision and resulting network wa ...

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2010-06-29 18:34:20     API Bundles | Open API Service

http://openapiservice.com/content/api-bundles

Alcatel-Lucent has flipped the traditional API revenue m...
By creating a commercially packaged bundle of APIs, deve ...
Don't max out your credit cards with API calls. Instead, ...

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2013-02-09 09:22:28     Amazon makes UK publishers pay 20% VAT on ebook sales | Books | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...forces-publishers-pay-vat-ebook

Amazon is forcing British publishers to cover the cost o... on ebook sales – even though the true VAT cost to the ... only a fraction of that amount under its generous Luxemb... regime.
The firm is able to wield such power over publishers bec ...

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2015-04-06 11:54:42     The Horror of Amazon’s New Dash Button - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/...orror-of-amazons-new-dash-button

Amazon’s new Dash Button, which will allow shoppers to... used domestic products like laundry detergent or paper t... click of a real-life button, is not a joke. Many people ... mostly because the announcement came the day before Apri... also becaus

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2011-11-02 11:54:29     Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists | TPM Idea Lab

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/...operation-cartel.php

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Ha...
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Carl Franzen November 1, 2011, 6:00 PM 24755 95
Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who threa ...
... ves would almost certainly be targeted by rival cartels.

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2010-12-11 00:35:24     As Textbooks Go Digital, Campus Bookstores May Go Bookless - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/article/College-20-As-Textbo.../125363/

As students cut costs by buying books from cheaper onlin... downloading e-textbooks, campus bookstores sell fewer an... That's triggering an identity crisis for one of the olde... campus and leading some college officials to ask: If tex... does the ca

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2011-03-02 09:14:52     BBC News - Graduates - the new measure of power

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12597811

At the beginning of the last century, the power of natio... measured in battleships and coal.
In this century it's as likely to be graduates.
There has been an unprecedented global surge in the numb ...
Among the developed OECD countries, graduation rate

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2017-07-12 10:23:49     Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?”

https://www.fastcodesign.com/...at-did-we-bring-to-the-world

“A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 2... creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have ... “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait... they start to rethink their design decisions.”
And it’s not just tha

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2015-08-11 10:55:25     Stop calling it the “Sharing Economy.” That isn’t what it is. | Olivier Blanchard

http://olivierblanchard.net/...economy-that-isnt-what-it-is/

“I need a car to pick me up at my hotel and take me to... as collaborative as “my yard looks like crap and I rea... cheap landscaper.” You’re talking about buying and s...
Let me ask you this: if someone pushed out an escort-boo ...
Context mat

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2024-03-13 07:16:06     Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ty-of-life-institute-for-work

“We found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,” the report said.

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2010-12-11 00:41:27     Videonet - News and Analysis - Linear advertising will continue to dominate

http://www.v-net.tv/newsdisplay.aspx?...

Between 75% and 80% of television viewing will remain in... television viewing environment for the next 10 years in ... the US, and the 30 second spot will continue to dominate... advertising. That is the view of Simon Thomas, Strategic...
However, wh

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2014-06-10 11:45:34     The coming digital anarchy - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...he-coming-digital-anarchy.html

Bitcoin is giving banks a run for their money. Now the s... threatens to eradicate social networks, stock markets, e... governments. Are we heading towards an anarchic future w... power of any kind will dissolve?

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2012-09-24 09:32:52     BookLending.com - FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - BookLending.com - Book Lending - Borrow and Lend Kindle Books for Free.

http://www.booklending.com/faq.htm

BookLending.com is a website that matches lenders and bo... ebooks.

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2011-07-04 14:29:26     US anti-piracy body targets foreign website owners for extradition | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...-piracy-extradition-prosecution

British website owners could face extradition to the US ... even if their operation has no connection to America and... which is most probably legal in the UK, the official lea...
The US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE ...
As long as

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2011-09-12 09:11:10     Concerns that proposed 4G broadband network might disable GPS

http://www.go4awalk.com/...king-news-and-discussions.php?...

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass.
And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ...
But this could change if a new 4G m

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2010-09-17 11:10:17     BBC News - Pigeon flies past broadband in data speed race

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452

Broadband is the most modern of communication means, whi... date back to Roman times.
But on Thursday, a race between the two highlighted the ...

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2013-12-19 15:22:09     MediaMonkey » Information » Gold

http://www.mediamonkey.com/information/gold/

Catalog your physical CDs and use the Virtual CD feature... what CDs you own and at the same time see which subset o... CDs are copied to your hard drive. Instead of tracking y... separately, the virtual CD function gives you an integra...

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2011-11-22 06:54:22     The power of the written word | Ruth Stalker-Firth

http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/...power-of-the-written-word

Charlie Brown Wah Wah Wah
I used to read a woman’s blog, everyday. It was amazin ...
I can only guess that the last entry, before the blog go ...

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2010-05-12 10:06:48     Towards a Future Internet » About

http://www.internetfutures.eu/?page_id=18

Commencing February 2009, this study is exploring what a...
* Explore the past — examine prior studies and ana ...
* Define possible future scenarios and assess their ...
* Produce preferred visions for Europe of a Future I ...
The project

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2013-10-12 11:46:11     BBC News - Imagine a world without shops or factories

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23990211

Continue reading the main story
"The 20th Century was about dozens of markets of million ...
Joe Kraus, dotcom pioneer

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2011-05-04 12:10:51     Adrian Short » Blog Archive » Boris says bye-bye to indie Boris Bikes developers

http://adrianshort.co.uk/...to-indie-boris-bikes-developers/

Courted, used and discarded in less than a year. That’... Transport for London’s attitude towards independent ap... the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme.

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2011-11-12 16:27:49     BBC News - US dismantles 'massive' cyber crime syndicate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15668377

Cyber criminals who are alleged to have made $14m (£9m)... fraud have been arrested in Estonia.
The FBI alleged that the gang infected more then four mi ...

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2009-04-15 13:00:11     Damietta furniture exports hit $100 million

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day.../2005052634.html

Damietta furniture exports hit $100 million
Egypt, Economics, 5/26/2005
"Damietta governorate's furniture exports have continuou ...
Speaking at a meeting with the board of directors of the ...
... order to learn more about modern manufacturing methods.

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2010-09-17 14:48:30     P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The insuffiency of the open data approach

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-insuffiency-of-the.../1412

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

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2013-02-09 09:27:30     About | Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People

http://darkpatterns.org/vision/

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

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2011-10-31 14:05:33     Digital Death Day

http://digitaldeathday.com/

DEATH IS A PART OF LIFE AND LIFE HAS (TO AN EXTENT) BECO...
Our increasing digitality means that we will increasingl ...
Held in the inspiring setting of the Tropenmuseum’s ex ...
Thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mournin ...

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2009-04-28 17:20:20     Eric Von Hippel's Homepage

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm

[ From frame: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democbanner.htm ]

DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION- by Eric Von Hippel

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2012-09-06 11:04:28     World Wide Web Foundation | The Web Index

http://thewebindex.org/

Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, ... the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web... utility and impact on people and nations. It covers 61 d... developing countries, incorporating indicators that asse... economic an

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2012-09-24 09:19:53     About Us

http://www.deliverthis.com/sample-page/

Designed to connect people with something to deliver…⮮. can deliver it!
Example 1 – A mum is on her way to drop her kids off t ...
Example 2 – A Truckie has an empty backload from Sydne ...

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2010-08-18 18:16:10     Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob

http://www.softwarebyrob.com/20.../why-free-plans-dont-work/

Do they ever make sense?
I’m not saying that it’s impossible to be successful ...
Obviously free plans have worked well for companies like ...
We need to stop blindly copying them and start thinking ...
... t skip that free plan and focus on making m

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