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‘But […] there’s another way to think about copyright: as a regulation of commercial exploitation, rather than a regulation of copying per se.’

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Billions Lost by Olympus May Be Tied to Criminals

‘Japanese officials say that at least $4.9 billion is unaccounted for in a financial scandal at Olympus and are investigating whether much of that money went to companies with links to organized crime.’

japan olympus business corruption yakuza
november 2011 by threedaymonk

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NPR tries something new: A day to let managers step away and developers play

‘NPR is experimenting with something called “Serendipity Day,” wherein everyone on the technology side abandons their day jobs to work on…whatever they want.’

work business productivity npr
august 2011 by threedaymonk

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First Things First 1964 a manifesto

‘We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, photographers and students who have been brought up in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable means of using our talents.’

advertising design business manifesto
august 2011 by threedaymonk

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Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots

‘in Uzbekistan, he suggested, Google could take its payment in goats.’

google business
march 2011 by threedaymonk

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jeff bezos demonstrates the 5 why exercise, root cause analysis, cause and effect, ishikawa diagram
5whys amazon analysis productivity management work business
january 2010 by threedaymonk

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Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable - BusinessWeek

So that’s how they’re going to make money.

twitter internet business search google microsoft
december 2009 by threedaymonk

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Are sales people different from you and me?

‘It turns out that fear is not a good motivator. Sales people have mortgages to pay, kids to feed and bills to settle, just like the rest of us.’ An attempt to pay sales people a regular salary instead of commission.

business economics psychology commission sales
december 2009 by threedaymonk

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Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists

‘Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned.’

webdev internet business marketing seo
october 2009 by threedaymonk

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Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics For Maximizing Productivity: MicroISV on a Shoestring

‘working for the sake of work is a waste of time, resources, and human potential’

work business outsourcing efficiency
october 2009 by threedaymonk

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Professionalism

Incisive analysis of what people – and by ‘people’, I mean ‘idiots’ – mean by that word.

business
september 2009 by threedaymonk

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Shiny Media - My bit part in its downfall

‘I knew what both sites were making in ad revenue. Which was virtually nothing, a tiny percentage of my actual salary. As I looked around, I wondered if anyone else was doing the sums in their heads and working out how long it would be until the company exploded?’

internet blogs business
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Most expensive javascript ever?

If you’re trying to sell to Opera, make sure that you don't have a line of JavaScript specifically to deny their browser access to your admin screen.

javascript browser business opera humour
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Don’t offer $50 for your favorite feature

So true. ‘The developers I know would rather rip up $50 bills, long sequences of them, than do something that, in their best judgment, is against the best interests of the software and its users.’

software business development
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Are fans telling friends? If not, improve, don’t promote.

Or to put it another way, make good stuff. Don’t try to promote crap.

marketing business
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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Apple is creating an ecosystem of the kind of customers I don’t want

How Apple’s ‘ridiculously slow and convoluted’ process for approving updates to applications in its walled garden App Store is affecting developers.

software apple business iphone
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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Making money out of free
business internet free
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Goodbye Google

‘I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.’

webdev design google business
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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The Numbers Post (aka Brutal Honesty)

‘I hope that this article might serve as a counter-point to the articles that seem to go around the web about devs making hundreds of thousands of dollars off an iPhone app.’ Needs to be said.

apple iphone business sales marketing
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

‘We can move [the bad reviews]. Well, for $299 a month.’

yelp extortion business reviews ethics internet
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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The $300 Million Button

‘We were surprised how much [first time shoppers] resisted registering.’

webdev design usability shopping ux business
january 2009 by threedaymonk

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Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill

Wow. Is that even legal? It shouldn’t be.