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Stephen Elop is the pres­i­dent of Microsoft’s Busi­ness Divi­sion — nat­u­rally, he’s more inter­ested in busi­ness inno­va­tion than in shiny cus­tomer gad­gets. In this 6 minute inter­view, Elop talks about the deep-rooted change com­pa­nies cur­rently face as the under­ly­ing ques­tion “how do we deal with this vast amount of infor­ma­tion in an effi­cient way?” is an ongoin project:

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National mar­kets beg to dif­fer: it’s not only about lan­guages, but about the sub­tle cul­tural dif­fer­ences which make the dif­fer­ence between top and drop. That goes espe­cially for Asian mar­kets. And there is another spe­cialty about the largest Asian mar­ket: Chi­nese gov­ern­ment strictly con­trols all inter­net access. This kind of cen­sor­ship not only influ­ences the polit­i­cal but also the eco­nomic sphere. Juer­gen Hoe­barth, who knows the Chi­nese online mar­ket like the back of his hand, wrote a white paper about Chi­nese start-ups which is def­i­nitely worth a look (espe­cially since it’s a free down­load!). Read the rest of this entry »

Usu­ally, I don’t get too excited about new ad net­works — but since Con­tenture has been devel­oped by the team behind Clicky, I’m quite sure that this ser­vice deserves a closer look. The idea is sim­ple: by pay­ing a monthly flat fee to Con­tenture, users help web­mas­ter make their sites sus­tain­able. Via a JavaScript-Snippet, the Con­tenture net­works mea­sures users’ vis­its to par­tic­i­pat­ing sites and spreads the money accord­ingly. Read the rest of this entry »

“The answer is the same as always: the sys­tem!” Fur­ther­more there is, as we all know, no right life in the wrong one. So actu­ally it’s not a big sur­prise that Kiki and Bubu, mono­chroms ever-motivated fight­ers against cap­i­tal­ism, crave some Christ­mas carol spirit:

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1. Choose a beard that fits your needs.
2. Stick it onto your face, either vir­tual or cut it out and take a picture.
3. Mail the pic to couple65months@photos.flickr.com — for each fake beard, atto will pay 1$ to kiva — those guys give micro-credits to small busi­ness start-ups in devel­op­ping countries.
4. Do it!

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Yaro Starak, the Aussie “make-more-money-online-you-dimwit” guru tells me I gotta have pil­lar con­tent for my blog. These arti­cles con­stantly are going to drive unwanted traf­fic to datadirt. And Yaro says that How-to post­ings are a good way to achieve a strong pil­lar effect, so first I wanted to blog about how to blog (how to find the proper topic, that is.), but then it sud­denly hit me: first things first, mate! All post­ings con­sist of proper sen­tences in the first place, so I decided to go on ram­bling about how to write a blog-posting sen­tence. I hope this will drive all des­o­late crea­tures out there — SEO dogs, blog­gers and the like — to my blog for eter­nity. Read the rest of this entry »