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Brands As Publishers - Part 2

John Battelle's Searchblog

American Express, for example, runs a significant print publishing business that includes Travel+Leisure and Food&Wine. However, not many brands want to be in the magazine or television business – even when they weren’t in decline, as they are now.

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Should businesses use collective intelligence and the wisdom of the crowds?

ChiefTech

Earlier in the year, a report was published of researchers who looked at mining Twitter to predict the success of movies. ” Others, like The Economist magazine, still see potential: search-volume forecasts will help spot consumer trends of this sort with increased precision. via guardian.co.uk.

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Incredible adventures, incredible journeys – India and beyond

CILIP

magazine about her fiction and her involvement with India, Incredible India and why it is so important to bring the story of the country to life for children and young people. India, Incredible India is a new book with words by best-selling author Jasbinder Bilan, celebrating the rich history and culture of India.

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DB2 for z/OS: of Stored Procedures and the DB2 MQListener

Robert's Db2

A handy piece of code called the DB2 MQListener enables the bringing together of these two favorite technologies of mine -- DB2 for z/OS stored procedures and asynchronous transaction processing -- and that's what this blog entry is about. Want to drive an update of information in a table, based on the content of a message? Check it out.

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

Mine was 0311 which was an infantry rifleman, and I was sent off for advanced infantry training. Wilson Hicks who was the former executive editor of Life Magazine. I met him in his role as advisor to student publications, primarily the Ibis yearbook, Tempo magazine, and Hurricane newspaper. May 2, 1968. Photo by Cpl.

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Twitter's Great Big Problem Is Its Massive Opportunity

John Battelle's Searchblog

Presto, we make Wired magazine, Oprah, or Serious Eats. Mine, well, it don't work so well, for reasons of my own doing ). When you follow someone who's a big foodie, for example, Twitter will suggest other folks who tweet about food. You could follow interests, instead of people, for example.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

In fact, those guys are all pretty good examples of the ability to build amazing things from the ground up and I'm sure that many of you reading this have sat down and started building something with the same enthusiasm as, say, Zuckerberg did with Facebook in 2004. Just over 2 years ago, my wife (Kylie) had spinal surgery.

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