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Day December 27, 2008

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Microposting(s) for December 18th through December 27th

Dec 27, ’08 6:02 PM

These my micropostings and bookmarks – December 18th through December 27th:

  • nativeclient – Google Code – A further step towards the browser supplanting the operating system?

    While google's Native Client plugin is still simply that, it's clear that Google's seeing itself in the middle of the information cycle: finding stuff (google search), reading stuff (Chrome qua 'browser'), doing things (Chrome qua application delivery/manipulation engine) and now of course supplanting the (bloated?) intermediation of an OS sitting between the browser and the chip.

    While this isn't going to supplant a developed OS any time soon (eg for musicians, accountants, corporate users, designers) it could make the Netbooks even more powerful: fat wireless, cheap chip, no OS to pay for, Google Docs for wp and storage, and then embedded chunks of functionality running 'in browser'.

    More interesting by the day. And to think that we used to think that MicroSith was greedy in its ambition for WindozeEverywhere…

  • DiSo Project – "Open, distributed, social" – building an open, interconnected and distributed world, with the first project built on top of WordPress.
  • autonomo.us · Social Networking – Interesting and richly-referenced article on open data exchange, standards and players in social networking.

    From the folks working towards Free Network Services.

  • The Snow Patrol : Criteo – behavioural marketing and merchandising services –
  • Casino targets UK with discount e-tail site – "Discount" and "online" – interesting market entry approach from Casino, one of the world's largest volume retailers. This will make the UK's electronics market even more competitive.

    Gee-gaws and widgets aside, you need to have massive buying power to compete on price and this offering will bring DSG-esque levels of purchasing power to the UK.

    One to watch – especially with their launch offers…

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zapposinsights.com – monetising the lessons of success

Dec 27, ’08 3:34 PM

zapposinsights.com

Well well – this is a fun idea. Zappos, a US$ 1 billion etailer that’s done for shoes what Amazon did for books, has created a ‘club’ for the “Fortune One Million” group.

The club, c$40 a month membership, is a mix of video content, happy-clappy employee indoctrination videos and general bigging-up of the company culture. It’s all very ‘can do’ (and more importantly ‘have done’).

In addition there’re knowledge base articles, interviews with key staff and execs, and opportunities to post questions.

Although a little ‘American’ at times, it’s an interesting approach from a company that clearly believes in values of staff and customer engagement, delivering great service and in sharing insights. After all, it’s one thing to be given an insight, but an entirely more difficult thing to interpret and then implement the requirements of that insight.

Having worked for years in best practice publishing, training and indeed the structured, state-supported business development sector (with Business Link for London, formerly Europe’s largest enterprise support agency) this initiative is to be welcomed.

That they’re clearly going to monetise the One Million is simply an elegant example of that commercial spirit ;)

Please let me know your experiences if you join.

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