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Ten Rules for Web Startups — #1: Be Narrow — Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful. Most companies start out trying to do too many things, which makes life difficult and turns you into a me-too. Focusing on a small niche has so many advantages …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
VoIP Providers: Heeding the Call? — While Internet phone services are catching on rapidly, quality and reliability are still suspect. The pressure's on to fix the problems — For Mark Burris, Internet-based calling is a mixed blessing. Burris, who runs a branding and marketing business in Greensboro …
Amy Gahran / Contentious:
Women in Podcasting: 40 New Shows Listed — Now that I've relaunched the Women in Podcasting list as an OPML outline (which is much, much easier to maintain), I can finally start catching up on my considerable backlog of suggested shows. — I've just added about 40 new shows to the list.
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Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
THE TV BROADCASTING BUSINESS STINKS — Terry Heaton says "Broadcasting is an industry in deep trouble, and it will take innovation and integrity to save it from a real disaster." He then shows the stock charts over the past year for the 12 publicly listed companies that own TV stations.
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Roland / Smart Mobs:
Roland's Sunday Smart Trends #86 — Here is my weekly selection of articles that were not mentioned here — except if I missed them. — Advertising Moves to RSS — RSS, the rapidly proliferating process for syndicating web sites, wins the true mark of popularity: advertising.
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James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants:
Customers have the power — Scoble makes a point about feeds, but it's really a much bigger point - customers have a lot more control over sales situations than they used to. Subscribing to a feed is just an example of this: the writer is selling his content, and the customer gets to decide whether it's worth buying.
Tony Glover / thebusinessonline.com:
BT dials up free mobile phone calls service — BT is to take on leading mobile phone operators such as Vodafone and O2 by enabling customers to make free calls on their mobiles. — The service has been under development at BT for the past 18 months. It will be available …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Why aren't Bloglines or Newsgator OPML Editor compatible? — I kept trying to open my OPML file in the OPML Editor and it wouldn't open. I had a few complaints about that as well. I tried both the OPML file that NewsGator exported as well as the one that Bloglines exported.
New York Times:
Calling Out the Cable Guy — TERRY DENSON and Dan York are not exactly boldface names in entertainment industry circles, but perhaps they should be. After all, nearly $30 billion and the future of two Baby Bells hang in part on whether these two refugees from the television programming world find success in their new jobs.
Reuters:
Dutch tech firm wants to rid the Web of the .com — AMSTERDAM—A Dutch technology company has breathed life into a project to rid the Internet of suffixes such as .com, and instead offer single names which can be countries, company names or fantasy words. — Such a system, which enables countries …
fixmyxp.com:
99 USEFUL RUN COMMANDS — Do you use the Run feature in Windows XP? For most, this feature remains unused (or rarely used). Why is that? Well, First off nearly all of the Run Commands Correspond to a particular Control Panel Item or a Utility, Tool or Task that can be accessed through Windows.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Time to allow hard drives pre loaded with Music....and change Harry Fox — its the simplest of ideas. Take any MP3 player, Ipod, PSP, whatever and pre load it with songs. With 30, 60 and 100gbs capacities, the potential is amazing. How simple it would be if the user could sample and choose.
Jenna / Popgadget:
Electric Clothing Stain Remover — I wonder if this gadget works as well as it says because if it does, I can think of countless times when the electric stain remover would have come in handy. Stains always seem to get me as I'm about to walk out the door, so I have to choose between blotting …
Secretdubai / Metroblogging Dubai:
For Flickr's sake — International visitors may wonder why the Dubai metroblog doesn't have Flickr.com photos like the other cities. — Well, that's because Flickr has been blocked by the UAE government censors for the second time. Blame it on Etisalat (state monopoly teloc) …
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