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Adblocking: a cat-and-mouse game built on trust
Adblocking is a hot topic these days. A never ending cat and mouse game between advertisers and consumers in which ingenious developers are constantly finding new ways of avoiding or trying to avoid advertising pressure. What Adblocking is showing us too is a lack of trust on the part of…
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Digital technology
Infographic: Why passwords are a necessary evil
Passwords are ubiquitous. We all use them and despite the fact that we keep grumbling that they aren’t good enough, we still rely on them in order to protect our most precious information like bank account details, personal and electronic commerce details and such like. What I learned today while…
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Digital technology
Legal Copy of Microsoft Office With CloudOn
Let’s make the most of the summer with a bit of light reading and what I would call the application of the week: CloudOn. I have selected a number of applications which I find particularly good or changed my way of working, or of entertaining myself unless it’s both. This…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
The love-hate relationship of Governments with Cyberspace
A few weeks ago I started contributing to the innovation generation blogs, an initiative sponsored by Alcatel. Here is my first piece entitled: Governments Ease Into Cyberspace. In October 2012 I took part in the Conference on Cyberspace, an event put together by the Hungarian government on behalf of the international…
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Marketing & Innovation
Is Sir Tim Berners Lee ’s view one-sided?
today’s selection is … A report from Edouard Austin in my team at Orange who was attending the WW2012 keynote speech by one of the Web’s founders, Sir Tim Berners Lee who issued a clear warning as to the growing threat to freedom of speech on the Internet. In that…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
Chinese Internet: the global battle has begun
The Chinese Internet is now conquering the world. In a previous series, Alban Fournier, a young French professional who fell in love with Asia warned us that China was the next worldwide International giant in the making. In this piece, he is expatiating on this previous report and delving into…
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Marketing & Innovation
All you’ve ever wanted to know about Copyright Protection
What is Copyright Protection? The question might seem ludicrous but who knows what the “Berne Convention” is and what particular countries did or didn’t ratify it. It is too often taken for granted that material taken from the Internet is free and can be saved in any form or fashion. This…
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Marketing & Innovation
Startups Don’t Need Marketing … Or Maybe Later by Fred Wilson
Startups Don’t Need Marketing … Or Maybe Later. Is a piece by Fred Wilson, an NYC Venture Capitalist, about why Marketing isn’t what a startup needs when its initiative is kick-started. Startups need intuition, hunches, “segmentuition” as I often say, not pricy surveys or acquisition campaigns. All of that comes…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
Me and the Web: matters of no consequence – The Little Prince
Our friends from Likeminds in Exeter have asked me to write a little piece about me and the Web and it didn’t have to do with business matters, so there it is, with a few literary references of no consequence. “Ha tutte le carte in regola per essere un artista”…
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