Microsoft wanted 100% share in every market they entered. The thought was that once you dominate a market, you can impose your will on it via pricing, distribution, bundling, and all sorts of other methods designed to maximize profit. To Microsoft in the 1980s, a monopoly was a great problem to aspire to have, and since antitrust laws weren’t routinely applied to software companies, the threat seemed immaterial. The problem with this thinking, however, was that the law eventually caught up to them and crippled their ability to continue operating as a monopoly.
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Search Engine Optimization
Some useful questions to ask an SEO include:
- Can you show me examples of your previous work and share some success stories?
- Do you follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines?
- Do you offer any online marketing services or advice to complement your organic search business?
- What kind of results do you expect to see, and in what timeframe?
- How do you measure your success?
- Whats your experience in my industry?
- Whats your experience in my country/city?
- Whats your experience developing international sites?
- What are your most important SEO techniques?How long have you been in business?
- How can I expect to communicate with you?
- Will you share with me all the changes you make to my site, and provide detailed information about your recommendations and the reasoning behind them?
via Search Engine Optimization SEO – Webmaster Tools Help.
They also link to a news story about how a rogue SEO got caught by the FTC. You can learn more about SEO at http://www.noblesamurai.com/ or if you like working with spreadsheets take a look at simplewebmethodology.com
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Navi Puss – useful when export is broken by design
Total downloads: 2 million
Installed base: 15,000
Can’t imagine: why the discrepency?
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Atmosphere: The Mobile Internet
#eventsatgoogle — April 12, 2010 — The Mobile Internet with Mary Meeker, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley.
Lots of juicy facts & stats to back all the clichés about the net going mobile and social, with no mention of the word microsoft.
via YouTube – 5 – Atmosphere: The Mobile Internet.
Maybe now’s a good time to check your apps are compatible?
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Definition of In Denial
The question is: why? My guess is that In Design etc. is for dead trees.
The squabbling between Apple and Adobe has been getting increasingly personal, with Adobe executives and employees angered in particular by Apple’s decision to block Adobe software that would allow developers to produce programs in Flash that would then be converted to work on the iPhone.
The Journal’s Alan Murray had an exclusive interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen Thursday afternoon, and Digits live-blogged the event. Highlights are below.
via Highlights: The Journal’s Exclusive Interview With Adobe CEO – Digits – WSJ. -
2003 Apple fail prediction
Rob Glaser Soothsayer About a week later Jobs played host to one of the “launch” events for which the company is notorious, announcing the availability of iTunes and access to the company’s music store for Windows users. (In what seemed an odd crack in Apple’s usually seamless aura maintenance, he did his demo on what was clearly a Dell computer.) The announcement included a deal with AOL and a huge promotion with Pepsi. The message was obvious: Apple is aiming squarely at the mainstream.
This sounded like a sea change. But while you can run iTunes on Windows and hook it up to an iPod, that iPod does not play songs in the formats used by any other seller of digital music, like Napster or Rhapsody. Nor will music bought through Apple’s store play on any rival device. (The iPod does, of course, work easily with the MP3 format that's common on free file-swapping services, like KaZaA, that the music industry wants to shut down but that are still much more popular than anything requiring money.) This means Apple is, again, competing against a huge number of players across multiple business segments, who by and large will support one another's products and services. In light of this, says one of those competitors, Rob Glaser, founder and C.E.O. of RealNetworks, “It’s absolutely clear now why five years from now, Apple will have 3 to 5 percent of the player market.”
Glaser says he admires Apple and likes Jobs, but contends that this is simply the latest instance of the company's tendency, once again, to sacrifice commercial logic in the name of “ideology.” Not that Apple can't maintain a business by catering to the high end and operating in a closed world. But maintaining market leadership, while easy when the field of competitors is small, will become impossible as rivals flood the market with their own innovations and an agnostic attitude about what works with what. “The history of the world,” he says, “is that hybridization yields better results.” With Dell and others aiming a big push at the Christmas season, it’s even possible that Apple’s market share has peaked.
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DNS323 cat5 ethernet connect to Mac OS X 10.6 sans crossover
Tom-Coadys-MacBook-Pro:~ tomxcoady$ ifconfig en0
en0: flags=8963 mtu 9000
ether 00:23:df:7c:a1:46
inet6 fe80::223:dfff:fe7c:a146%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 10.10.10.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
media: autoselect
status: active
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Magento Webinars
Enterprise edition features
A wide ranging look at hosting, user experience, wireframing and more not in that order. Only stills.
Managing Sales Tax in Magento eCommerce Applications
Magento Developer Solutions Series: Best Practices for Magento Development
Introduction to Magento Enterprise Edition v1.7
Magento and Razor 360 Present: 7 Tips to Accelerate Your eCommerce Evolution
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Ad Agencies are starting to hear about the internets
The Last Advertising Agency On Earth from FITC on Vimeo.
A short film about what the future of advertising might look like.
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Rapportive Replaces Gmail Ads with Contact Info
Firefox/Chrome: Sure it’s nice and all that we get Gmail for free, but those ads to the right of open messages aren’t really all that helpful. Free browser add-on Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with contact info about the sender.
Beyond installing it, there’s nothing to using Rapportive. You have to give it access to a minimum of information to get started (looks like your name and email address, via your Google account). Then whenever you open an email, it cross-references the email of the sender with various social networking sites, then fills the ad space with whatever information it finds.
via Rapportive Replaces Gmail Ads with Contact Info, Is Very Cool – Gmail – Lifehacker.
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Invitation to hell
..living hell
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Colosseo Letterpress Poster
What began as a 10-year wedding anniversary to Rome concluded a year later as an artistic endeavor to reimagine the Coliseum with type.
Colosseo: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type (Canon 7D) from Cameron Moll on Vimeo.
To read more about this artwork and to purchase a copy, please visit http://colosseotype.com
In March 2009, Suzanne (wife) and I spent several days in Rome to celebrate our 10-year anniversary. This was also a chance to observe in detail the Coliseum, which I’d already selected as the next subject in my series of letterpress posters (see http://cameronmoll.bigcartel.com/category/posters).
Over the course of the next 12 months, the artwork was handcrafted character by character, totaling roughly 250 hours of work from start to finish. Characters from the Goudy Trajan and Bembo Pro typefaces form the Coliseum, also known as today as Colosseo (Italian) and originally known as Amphitheatrum Flavium (Latin).
Printed at Bjørn Press in Provo, Utah. http://bjornpress.com
I shot the video shown here using a Canon 7D, with Suzanne’s assistance for my interview segment. Edited with Final Cut Express. I picked up the 7D literally the day before shooting at Bjørn Press, so I still have lots to learn. (I botched my interview part by failing to turn off sharpening before shooting and by not having Suzanne sit at the same height while interviewing me, hence my eyes focus differently in each segment. But oh well, it is what it is.)
The opening segment was filmed at 1280/60fps, then in FCE it was slowed down and resized to fit the rest of the footage, which was shot at 1920/30fps. The 7D makes it really easy to pull off high-quality slow motion.
Font used for the titles is Bembo Pro.
Lenses:
* Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM prime
* Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM zoom
* Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 USM macroMore about my video setup here: http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2010/02/canon_7d_video/
All music is by This Will Destroy You. Their self-titled album (2007) seemed to compliment the footage perfectly. Songs, in order of appearance:
“The Mighty Rio Grande”
“Leather Wings”
“Villa del Refugio”http://www.last.fm/music/This+Will+Destroy+You
Thanks for watching.
via Colosseo Letterpress Poster: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type.