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2Feb/120

Why Buy with YBuy?

Every once in a while the enterprising spirits of small businesses invent brand new and strange business models. And sometimes it’s so strange, that they simply stump me. Today’s example of such “um… what are they thinking?” business models is YBuy.com. To start, it uses that “traditional” groupon-like model, where you can’t really see what…

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17Jan/120

Private Messages on Facebook? Why, Politico will count you, of course

Facebook is like a minefield. And an active one as well. As soon as you relax a bit and don’t try to trawl the net about their new “initiatives” and something is already beeping and blinking under your foot, ready to explore. This time it’s the “sentiment analysis” that is being sold to Politico for…

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27Dec/110

Soon airlines will finally be forced to post the real price

Finally. It doesn’t happen often, but there is a new regulation that I wholeheartedly support. Starting from January 24th 2012 airfares in ads will have to include taxes and fees. Yes! It means when the ticket costs $1500 it won’t be advertised as $500 super fare, which just happen to have extra thousand bucks in…

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3Dec/112

Carrier IQ: poor little victim of carrier’s desires (NOT)

Sometimes when I read TechCrunch I’m not sure if they’re just trolling or accidentally “omit” certain aspects of story. You have probably seen enough Carrier IQ news everywhere — how it’s capable of recording everything on your Android phone but choses to only “help carriers to improve service”, how Apple turned out to also have…

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19Oct/110

A few thoughts about an ideal Android phone: Razr Glaxy Nexus anyone?

So, today is the day for Android announcements. Motorola has Razr completely and officially unveiled. Samsung and Google showed Galaxy Nexus and new Ice Cream Sandwich OS. And as I’ve already got accused of being a hater for my initial impressions of the presentation, I decided to think about the ideal combination. What would make…

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