Twitscoop.com -”We could tell you how we combined cutting-edge financial markets mathematics with Ruby and Jabber magics but we won’t. We’d rather have you tell us what doesn’t work in our algorithm by sending us an email to feedback [at] twitscoop [dot] com – we know we still have a long way to go and are prepared to work on it.”
Tribune Co. Taps Lazard,Weighs Filing for Chapter 11 -from wsj.com -pure online players are suffering from The Krugman Paradox and Unbundling.
Survival is Competitive Differentiation -from Gigaom .whether you own a pizza shop, or General Electric, these are probably ideas you have considered. Read through the comments section.
Neighborhood Watch Puts Florida Home Sales on the Map -from MediaShift .The article is about the st. Petersburg Times Django database for house hunting, but it raises other points about traditional media’s failings. I love this example, “There are two crimes I care about: There’s the crazy dude with the machete who hacks his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend’s head off and mounts it to his car and waits for the police to show up; and my neighbor’s lawn mower getting stolen out of his garage.
One of those you’ll find in the pages of the newspaper, guaranteed, the other is the opposite: you’ll never, ever, in a million years read about my neighbor’s lawn mower getting stolen out of his garage in the pages of the St. Petersburg Times.”
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