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Web Services Architect : Articles : Making Money out of Selling Web Services - Part I : Making Money out of Selling Web Services Show me the business model!


Internet Marketing E-mail Tip of the Week : Blogging -- Funny Name, Great for Online Marketing

The Register : Keyboards spread disease Yes folks, the E coli in your keyboard might come from the temp who used it yesterday. Now flick through Yellow Pages and look for Keyboard Sanitization Services. You know it makes sense.

Online Bank sticks adverts on banana peel? The Register : This fruit is, apparently "the ideal advertising medium because people throw away the peel, so the label is not irritating.. but it's there in front of you," And did you know that Germany is the highest consumer of bananas per capita of any country? Or that Quatemala is effectively owned by United Fruit.

Think you could do a better job of running Palm? PDA Sim let's you try. Or perhaps you just need this T Shirt.




What is SeattleWireless ? And could it work elsewhere?

ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - First 802.11a wireless chipsets due in weeks : Keep an eye on this one. It's going to be huge.

OK. Who's going to sponsor me to go to the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference Washington, D.C. -- September 18-21, 2001 : I'm really cheap and I promise to write a report with a management summary afterwards...

Rabbits! : I put little things on his head, that I can take pictures of his headperformance. It is a result of intimate relationship of me and Oolong, and alone headperformance is not a main theme of my site.

The Times : THOUSANDS more closed circuit television cameras are to be installed in public places, it was announced yesterday. The Government is spending £79 million on 250 schemes in England and Wales in the battle against crime. More than one million cameras are already trained on street crime hot spots. Research shows that CCTV coverage can reduce illegal activity by up to 60 per cent.

Smile you're on TV. And all this while C4 is showing a series on the History of Surveillance. Last week's program reached the conclusion that CCTV doesn't reduce crime it just shifts it to other locations. Far more important are the commercial aspects of behavioural control aided by highly visible video monitoring. eg please move along, you're not buying anything.. Now if they turned all these into webcams, that would be something. Why should the forces of Awe and Boredom be the only group to be able to see what's going on?

There's an idea that turns up every so often in Sci-Fi which is the "God's Eye". This is a location or view point from which you can see everything. I think there's a common mental misconception that this is real. That there's a place I can stand where everything becomes visible. This is easy in our heads, but of course is impossible in reality. I wonder if there's an element in the increase in surveillance that comes from trying to reach this ideal. eg "If we just open more letters, tap more phones, install more CCTV, we'll be able to know what's *really* going on."





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Just started another book. This one is for the hacks and add ons I've written for the Drupal system but for whatever reason haven't made it into the distribution.

A Chat with the Master of P2P - Business Week Aug 21 2001 7:37AM ET Another Ray Ozzie interview.

title="Permanent link to 'Realtime blog Doc Jabber fit' in archives."> - Realtime blog Doc Jabber fit  title="Permanent link to 'Realtime blog Doc Jabber fit' in archives."> [Scripting News] These broken Manila / Radio permalinks are really beginning to wind me up. I'd like to read Doc Searles, but his RSS feed is terminally broken so I don't. Now Dave W is doing it as well.

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