Coke: No More Classic (Labels)
This summer Coke‘s Classic tale will come to an end: the label shrinks to zero, finally; http://tr.im/dstd
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Doubling Ads
ABC/Nielsen research: Doubling the number of ads did not affect the viewers’ overall experience; http://tr.im/dnpz
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Gerrit Eicker
OpenID + OAuth
Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol combining OpenID and OAuth; http://tr.im/dnoz
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Gerrit Eicker
RWW: “The ‘hybrid approach’ – currently available in a limited beta – that Google and Plaxo have employed uses OpenID to sign in, then invokes OAuth for delegated authorization, and finally calls on the Google Contacts API to access information about contacts. And it does all of this transparently to the end user. … What’s best about the current situation is the rivalry between the two camps: one proprietary and easy-to-use, one open and more complex. It will be interesting to watch the two solutions push one another to become more and more simple for the end user. Because in that case, we all win.”
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Gerrit Eicker
Amazon: Best Ever Holiday Season
Amazon.com posted strong earnings in a brutal climate that has punished nearly every other retailer; http://tr.im/dnec
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Gerrit Eicker
pC: “Amazon didn’t have anything more substantive to say about Kindle, aside from noting that demand was ‘strong’ in Q4. The company also said the e-book reader’s selection grew by 45,000 titles in the quarter, bringing the total to 230,000 titles.”
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Gerrit Eicker
Kiva Team G: erste US$ 1.000 verliehen!
Das Kiva Team G hat insgesamt die ersten US$ 1.000 verliehen. Danke an alle! – http://cli.gs/JoinTeamG
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Gerrit Eicker
Pipl
Carthy on http://Pipl.com search: “It’s so good it’ll probably scare some people’s pants off”; http://tr.im/dj52
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Gerrit Eicker
Unfriending
Gies on Whopper Sacrifice: “Do you really want to have these people knowing what you’re up to?” – http://tr.im/dh7x
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Gerrit Eicker
SL Land Cutting
Linden Lab asks: “Do you agree in principle that land cutting needs to be a violation?”; http://tr.im/dgq9
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Demian Arbizu
I own an extensive land area in Horisme and I have cut my parcel into numerous smaller lots for the purpose of renting out houses on the property. The lots are necessary to allow each renter to control their own lot in terms of media especially as well as providing a defined area wherein they are allowed to rez their objects. The nonallocated areas are common land that all renters are permitted to utilize. I am concerned that your land cutting policy might affect this kind of subdivision, which has not damaged the appearance of the area at all. In fact, it has enhanced it. If you doubt this, then I invite you to come and look. Dividing a large lot up into tiny parcels for ad lots should be a violation, but subdividing land for the purpose of development or control should not be. I suggest that LL define a minimal habitable lot size, and not allow any lot below that size to be sold. Modify the software to make it impossible to sell it in About Land. That would eliminate this problem altogether, while allowing landowners to use subdividing land for legitimate purposes, since it would only affect them if they attempted to sell their land. Since a free starter lot is 512 sq.m. I believe, this should probably become the basic unit for saleable land.
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Russy
The solution should be system-based rather than AR-based – either minimum sale size of 512 sq.m., or minimum contiguous holdings of 512 (I prefer the latter approach). (We’re obviously only talking about mainland here.)
Anyone already holding parcels which are *less than* 512 sq.m. contiguous should have a grace period to sell … after which their parcel is automatically put up for auction at a starting price of e.g. L$8 / sq.m. (using some simplified in-world, on-parcel auction mechanism), whereby they receive the full proceeds.
Problem solved.
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Gerrit Eicker
Demian, Russy, I believe that LL is talking about parcels smaller than 512 sqm right now: “Whenever you see land that has a grid of 16m parcels for sale that are all clumped together, or in a checkerboard pattern, then what you’re seeing is an example of land cutting.”
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Russy
This is clear, Gerrit. The point of my proposal is that 16K parcels which are not part of a larger contiguous block (min 512) would be forcibly auctioned off. Since in practical terms, only adjoining neighbors could buy it, a reasonable starting price e.g. L$8 would be set.
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kathleen
LL has stated that it’s not illegal to own the land, only to cut the land (if you own it and you’re the one who cut it, then that would be illegal as well). And they do seem to be after 64 and smaller blocks.
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Gerrit Eicker
Sorry Russy, I somehow associated your comment to Demian’s.
Right now I don’t see any forced auctions. And LL talks about ad farms with 16sqm parcels that are 1. “for sale” and 2. “all clumped together”. At least that’s how I understand their offensive.
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Gerrit Eicker
Tip @Techmeme suggests stories to Techmeme via Twitter; works even with shortening services: http://tr.im/dgh7
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Gerrit Eicker
M-Lab: Measurement Lab
Google‘s http://Measurementlab.net lets users test their net connection regarding net neutrality; http://tr.im/dgee
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Gerrit Eicker
RWW: “These tools, of course, are not new (Google is just hosting them for the researchers), but it is interesting that Google is putting its weight behind these efforts through the Measurement Lab. In the announcement, Google doesn’t directly take sides on the net neutrality issue, but instead, the announcement refers to the importance of keeping Internet users ‘well-informed about what they’re getting when they sign up for broadband.’ It is also interesting to note that the announcement on the Google Blog was coauthored by Vint Cerf, the ‘father of the Internet’ and Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, which puts even more weight behind the importance of this initiative for Google and the message the company wants to send by supporting this project. – For the first time in three years, net neutrality will once again be discussed by the U.S. House of Representatives today, so it seems safe to assume that this announcement was timed to coincide with this.“
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kathleen, 
Russy and one other person are discussing. 
Gerrit Eicker 07:21 on 31. January 2009 Permalink |
AdAge: “The elimination of ‘classic’ has prompted few questions from consumers, Mr. Williamson said. Still, the company is being exceedingly cautious. The word will gradually disappear without any fanfare. And language on the package that now says ‘Coke Original Formula’ will be changed to ‘Coke Classic Original Formula.’“