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I reckon Facebook will try and buy foursquare or if they are not thinking about it - they should.

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...due to ... lazy people who hate change and can't be bothered to turn up and press start and stop many times a day and get paid for it.
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So, @memespring reporting that bnp signups post BBC question time amount to a third of their current memberships. This is sad and if true sadly reflects the points in my last post.

Whatever the "creative" justification or desperation of the journo's at the BBC - or whatever merit there is to a debate within the middle classes, if significantly more people have joined the BNP as a result of this, and this has an incrementally detrimental effect (even slightly) on any other person in the UK then the BBC has not provided anything positive but to bolster the CVs of their creative folk.
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I've had lots of chats to people in our traditional broadcasters over the last 2 years. I've actually been a bit amazed about how the focus appears to be on visuals rather than experience! Given the point of visuals in a lot of the case is to give people an idea of the experience they may have. However, when building social apps or iphone apps, or websites - you are giving people an experience. It's this mechanic that's important.

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For something to exist properly a critical mass of people need to believe it does. In one tiny flash the BBC have allowed to BNP to be real in a critical mass of people. They have given the sort of publicity that Nick Griffin couldn't fund due to lack of critical mass. Rather than collectively ignore the bully or brush him decisively away, the BBC in all their "full of creative people" genius have forgotten about human behaviour, and the power of advertising - and made fascism solidly real for millions of non "Anglo-saxons" in the UK. I will not be paying my license fee.
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And so Facebook hits 300 million users and goes cashflow positive. Amazingly 150million of these people come back every day - exactly the same metric as when they had 1 million users.

 Did anyone say anything about not being able to monetize social media? Maybe they were the same visionaries who couldn't understand search and still run media agencies?
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Somewhere near headcorn we are having lunch! 48 miles done, 32 to go for the ferry!

 Am feeling quite tired - maybe the kickboxing class last night was not too clever!!
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From: Mathew Munro <mathew@techlightenment.com>
Date: 13 March 2009 09:23:38 GMT
To: All Techlightenment <all@techlightenment.com>
Subject: Business modeling through the medium of cows

This made me chuckle:

22 Economic Models explained with Cows - 2008 update

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbor.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the
milk away...

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of
credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a
debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all
four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a
Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority
shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed
company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows,
with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of
the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided
with the release. The public then buys your bull.

THE ANDERSEN MODEL
You have two cows. You shred them.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want
three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon
image called "Cowkimon" and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and
milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don"t know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your
country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of Democracy....

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.

A CANADIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
There's a hockey game on somewhere.  You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

TECHLIGHTENMENT.......

Answers on the back of a postcard.

Mat

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