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Freemium is the new free

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. You can also subscribe by email. Thanks for visiting!Free to access, advertising supported pages are the Internet’s oldest business model. Advertising is the blood of the web. It sits on billions of pages and pays for the efforts of millions of publishers [...]

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eBusiness secrets 1: The renaissance team

eBusiness Secrets is a new series of in-depth articles about Internet mediated Business and Commerce, what makes a great eBusiness and how do the best ensure they keep thriving online.
I’m a Renaissance Man: skilled in Marketing, eBusiness & IT and possessed by a keen commercial appetite, I have always found myself at the crossroads between [...]

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eBusiness in the UK, part 3

What’s wrong with this picture? How did it get like this?
Outsourcing of IT and the User eXperience (UX) plays a big part. Outsourcing’s not a new development - years before the wave of IT work heading for India starting making the headlines, companies have been giving away core competences for years, to their detriment. Looks [...]

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Nokia getting a beating

It used to be, when I worked there, that I sometimes thought about Nokia and its interesting relationship with the media.
I’ve always maintained that, at the core, the only reason behind the success of the behemoth was the sheer number of people willing to work there for a very low salary, out of misplaced Finnish [...]

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Not cool, not interesting, not much at all - Nokia screws it up again with music store

I learn about the launch of the Nokia Music Store (NMS) from TheRegister’s excellent piece on the launch. Nokia are calling it Ovi and sports a logo right out of make your own Web 2.0 logo in 3 easy steps.
It’s never been cool, and its critics say that it’s boring and bland, with all the [...]

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