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今日でちょうど50記事です。英語の勉強のために、という理由で始めましたが時間がかかるだけであまり勉強になっていないのでしばらくやめます。なぜ時間がかかるかというと、英語の記事を探さないといけないからです。興味を引かないものは訳したくないしね。で、この時間で集中してリスニングとかほかの勉強に当てたほうが効率が高いだろうと判断しました。そういうわけで。
XML.Com has a pretty great 3 page maps howto up on their site. Check it out if you are interested in maps related stuff. It gives some solid information on how to handle geocoding to latitude and longitude using the excellent (and free!) Geocoder.us database.
Hacking Maps on XML.com
Great comment from Michael Powell at the Web 2.0 Conference (paraphrase): 'My son says 99 cent songs on iTunes suck! He thinks music should be free. But his ringtone bill last month was $40! To me, a ringtone is just a bad sample of a song, but to him, it's worth $2.99. It's all about setting expectations."
Boy is he right. This is one of the big challenges of every economic transition -- figuring out how to set user expectations for pricing. (Incidentally, this has been one of our challenges with Safari. For our publishing business to survive, we have to set expectations for the price of an electronic book service that will support the costs of producing the content -- and thus our business. If we don't set reasonable expectations, we die. Some of the early eBook services sold publishers on the idea that this stuff was just ancillary revenue, and so they could price it really low, as gravy. But we thought that online access would one day be primary, and we'd have to live on the revenue that it provides. So we needed to set the pricing expectations much higher. And note that I said "reasonable" -- enough to create a willing buyer and a willing seller. If we try to charge too much, we die too.)
Makes me think of George Soros' comment about "reflexive knowledge" - that many of the most interesting things are neither true nor false, but become true or false depending on what people believe.
Setting User Expectations on Price
Lifehacker’s special guest star Jeff Jarvis writes in with a report from O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Conference going on now through October 7th in San Francisco.
Special Report: Web 2.0 Conference
Trackslife is a great online tool that will help you keep track, and stay on track, with just about anything.
It took me a second to figure it out, but what it does is create a place to monitor your progress on things in your life. It could be your budget, training for a marathon, your quest to get a high score on a video game…anything.
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This software movement is branching into not just mainstream business applications but also the associated services. And VCs are eager to help
Eighteen months ago John Roberts, Clint Oram, and Jacob Taylor decided to quit their jobs at Epiphany, a maker of customer-relationship software. The trio wanted to target the same market, but write a new application developed using open-source code. It took them only three months to create the program and just another month to close their first round of funding. Little more than a year later, their company, SugarCRM, has given away more than 325,000 copies of its software, and raised a second round of capital, for a total of $7.75 million.
Open Source: Now It's an Ecosystem
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