Daily Archives: July 31, 2008

Hilarious bad marketing moves

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

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Hilarious bad marketing moves

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

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. … Continue reading →

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Amazon UK and mechanical Turk

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

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Amazon UK and mechanical Turk

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

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

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

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

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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Should Apple make a low-cost ultraportable Mac?

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

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Should Apple make a low-cost ultraportable Mac?

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Ian Betteridge

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 … Continue reading →

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