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July 2008

Hilarious bad marketing moves

July 31, 2008

On the back of thelondonpaper today, an ad by British Gas for a price guarantee – fix your prices until 2011. This is on the day it announced a 35% price rise. That’s just gauranteed to infuriate people even more. Plus of course, the reason they’re offering it is because they know that prices will [...]

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Hilarious bad marketing moves

July 31, 2008

On the back of thelondonpaper today, an ad by British Gas for a price guarantee – fix your prices until 2011. This is on the day it announced a 35% price rise. That’s just gauranteed to infuriate people even more. Plus of course, the reason they’re offering it is because they know that prices will [...]

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Amazon UK and mechanical Turk

July 31, 2008

Not sure if this is new, but Amazon UK is sending out emails promoting Mechanical Turk. Was it available in the UK before?

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Amazon UK and mechanical Turk

July 31, 2008

Not sure if this is new, but Amazon UK is sending out emails promoting Mechanical Turk. Was it available in the UK before?

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I take back everything mean I said about Wired UK v.2.0

July 31, 2008

Ben Hammersley’s Other Blog • It won’t be what you expect.. "David Rowan’s editorship of the UK edition of Wired raises many questions. The first being “Who is going to be his number two?” The answer to which is, after signing yesterday, me. Starting in a few weeks, first issue next year; more news to [...]

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I take back everything mean I said about Wired UK v.2.0

July 31, 2008

Ben Hammersley’s Other Blog • It won’t be what you expect.. "David Rowan’s editorship of the UK edition of Wired raises many questions. The first being “Who is going to be his number two?” The answer to which is, after signing yesterday, me. Starting in a few weeks, first issue next year; more news to [...]

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Should Apple make a low-cost ultraportable Mac?

July 31, 2008

There’s a small hacking community building up around the MSI Wind/Advent 4211 which is using the low-cost, ultra-portable machine to run Mac OS X. It takes lots of work – you need to replace the WiFi card for one thing – but it’s always great to see people hacking around with hardware to do crazy [...]

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Should Apple make a low-cost ultraportable Mac?

July 31, 2008

There’s a small hacking community building up around the MSI Wind/Advent 4211 which is using the low-cost, ultra-portable machine to run Mac OS X. It takes lots of work – you need to replace the WiFi card for one thing – but it’s always great to see people hacking around with hardware to do crazy [...]

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No, Twitter isn’t a revolution in media speed

July 30, 2008

Lots of Twitterers commented on how they heard from Twitter first about the LA Earthquake, and how amazing it is. Not so fast: “I’d suggest a far more likely scenario is that Twitter is the first place that bloggers and other chatterati first saw it, and as they are the ones who tend to talk [...]

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No, Twitter isn’t a revolution in media speed

July 30, 2008

Lots of Twitterers commented on how they heard from Twitter first about the LA Earthquake, and how amazing it is. Not so fast: “I’d suggest a far more likely scenario is that Twitter is the first place that bloggers and other chatterati first saw it, and as they are the ones who tend to talk [...]

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