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Be selective about when you show your product to customers, partners, team members, investors, and the like. This way, you'll maintain control of the conversation. Read moreIs this the end of CES? That’s one question I’ll be trying to answer as I walk the acres-long trade show floor. I’ll also be searching for the one true thing: that awesome product that makes the whole endeavor worthwhile. It’s turning out to be an odd year for the 40-plus-year-old trade show. Microsoft announced just weeks before the big event in Las Vegas that 2012 would be, essentially, its last CES.
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Podio and Startup Pirates are inviting everyone interested in the future of work, entrepreneurship, and networking to join us Monday January 23rd in Porto. Podio co-founder Kasper Hulthin will introduce Podio and the story behind the work platform. Startup Pirates will ... show how Podio have powered their new entrepreneurial movement behind the scenes. Are you a Podio user and interested in showing how you're using Podio and get feedback from other users and a Podio co-founder, then please send a short note to hulthin@podio.com.
Guerrilla marketing “works because it’s simple to understand, easy to implement and outrageously inexpensive,” says Jay Conrad Levinson , the man who coined the phrase. Consumers have grown immune to big budget advertising, but marketers that expend a bit of time and effort — rather than piles of money — can generate effective results with inexpensive, small-scale stunts. Take a look through our gallery of guerrilla and street marketing examples, where promotions costing no more than a few dollars can have a big impact on the consumers. Let us know which you think are the most effective in the comments below. The use of the luggage belt is more clever than you might initially think.
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Netflix launches in UK and Ireland with one month's free trial, £5.99 or €6.99 thereafter | The Verge
Netflix has just launched its subscription streaming service in the UK and Ireland. Anyone can pick up a month's free trial now, which can be extended for £5.99 or €6.99 per month after that. Complete series of TV shows are available to stream immediately, including US content like Prison Break and local UK produce like The Only Way is Essex .
Apple kicks off 12 Days of iTunes, offers a dozen freebies to last into 2012 -- Engadget
Find yourself something Apple-flavored underneath the Christmas tree yesterday? Need some gentle coaxing into using iTunes? Well, you're in luck; Cupertino's annual download giveaway starts today and runs through January 6th.
1. Google While the company's design doesn’t seem to have changed a whole lot, its services and capabilities sure have. Created by Stanford PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google officially launched Sept. 4, 1998. The interface was so simple because the founders didn’t know HTML and were looking for a quick design. Click here to view this gallery.
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Getty The ability to motivate employees is one of the greatest skills an entrepreneur can possess. Two years ago, I realized I didn’t have this skill. So I hired a CEO who did.
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Forget the Winklevoss twins. The next suit accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the Facebook idea might just come from Flipper. A study by scientists in the United Kingdom says that human use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter mimics the ways animals including dolphins and monkeys have long shared information about their own lives and worlds. “Social networks are the same across all species and, whilst details of their structure may differ, some properties remain the same whether we are looking at killer whales, spider monkeys or, indeed, humans,” University of Aberdeen biological sciences lecturer David Lusseau tells The Press Association. Lusseau, who led the 10-year study on animal behavior, will present his findings next Wednesday in Aberdeen in a talk called, “Did Animals Invent Twitter?” Lusseau’s project found that dolphins, whales, primates and hoofed animals all form groups to help make decisions efficiently and effectively to benefit the individual animals involved.O Irão está a testar uma rede de internet nacional — Halal — que irá restringir o acesso a sites estrangeiros. Os utilizadores registaram nos últimos dias alguma lentidão na rede, podendo estar numa fase de testes da “nova” internet iranina. O Wall Street Journal avança que a substituição da internet visa limitar a influência das culturas não islâmicas e ideologia ocidental. Esta rede — na realidade uma intranet — deverá ser colocada online nas próximas semanas, segundo os meios de comunicação social iranianos. Os utilizadores no Irão têm verificado alguma lentidão nas ligações de internet, acesso a sites políticos restringido e VPN bloqueados.
Irão desliga Facebook, Twitter e YouTube e testa nova internet | Caminhos Dedicados
Certain central areas of London are to make up Europe's largest free Wi-Fi zone this year, with the rollout due for completion before this summer's Olympic Games. British carrier O2 is working with the councils of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster to provide the service, and will begin installation on street furniture this month. London currently has numerous premium access points operated by O2, BT Openzone, and The Cloud among others, but it still lags behind cities such as Paris and New York in terms of free access. It's too early to know how good the service will be, but this does look like the largest push to catch up yet — even if it is only coming to two boroughs.
London to get Europe's largest free Wi-Fi zone this year | The Verge
In the window that appears, there is a list of three checkboxes: "Hard disks", "Removable media" (such as CDs), and "Connected Servers". Checking the checkboxes will cause those disk drives to appear on the desktop; unchecking any of them will remove that type of drive from the desktop. The drives are still available by opening a new Finder window, they're just not displayed on the desktop. In Mac OS 10.3.X, Finder Preferences is divided into several parts. In order to find the checkboxes that control which disks appear on the desktop click on "General", the leftmost icon in the tool bar at the top of the preferences window.