From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Pay To Protect Your Privacy?

by Jonah Stein on October 18, 2006

Privacy and Security are the two things consumers want most and get least. There is a huge opportunity for businesses to develop and prosper around giving consumers control of their personal information while still enjoying content.

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10 Ways Consumers Can Get Revenge

by Jonah Stein on October 13, 2006

Have you been wronged by a company and they won’t do anything about it? Here are 10 things you can do to get even.*
1. Dispute the credit card charge
There is a widely circulated rumor about a merchant who won a charge back dispute, but there is no confirmation it actually happened. Credit card [...]

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YouTube—Google Brilliant Deal—Terrible Consequences

by Jonah Stein on October 11, 2006

Buying YouTube for $1.65 Billion is a brilliant move to block out Yahoo, NewsCorp, Ask and MSN. Google may have overpaid or they may not have, but they now own the traffic that could have gone to a competitor.
The $900 million MySpace–Google search deal announced in May established the valuation and made acquisition of [...]

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You can always prove your point by defining what to measure. Jakob Nielsen is a renowned pundit, the leading evangelist for measuring results of user interface design and one of the most experienced and influential voices in design. His October 9th Alertbox shows how even the best pundits can fall into [...]

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BlackHatSEO had a great piece today about Spamming Digg and how to get to the top.
He included suggestions like putting together a top 10 list, mentioning Kevin Rose and Apple, demonizing Microsoft and Walmart, bashing Bush, talking about Firefox or Global Warming.
The article is really funny and it’s hard to decide if [...]

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