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Goldman analyst James Mitchell set a buy rating and $98-a-share target price on Amazon's stock, saying the company has been doing well by exploring business routes aside from its traditional online methods such as the Kindle, an electronic book-reading device.
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Mitchell said Amazon is seen as being able to sustain its revenue growth longer that most other Internet retailers, and that the company's revenue growth rate in the past quarter matched that of Google Inc.
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This document contains a library of patterns used by sites in the Web 2.0 landscape to support the new user sign-up and ramp-up experience. By leveraging the patterns we identified across twenty applications, you'll learn how to get users to join and participate in your network or application.
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In addition to the everyday struggles of information overload the average computer user deals with - like the overflowing inbox, for example - those in the internet/new media/technology space aren't just overwhelmed with new content, but also with new applications and choices to manage that content. What's a web-app loving person to do?
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Early adopters are not going to stop playing with every new service, but it's clear that we're getting to a point where tools that centralize, aggregate, but most importantly filter our content are going to be the ones that win out. There are only so many hours in the day, and, as it stands right now, every single one of them could be filled just consuming and interacting with content, social media, and web services.
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But just like blogs made two-way conversations on the Web relatively cheap, easy, and quick for the masses compared to previous methods (such as personal Web sites), conversational models on the Web have continued to evolve.  Recently, microblogging and social aggregation platforms like Twitter and Friendfeed have emerged to offer alternative models that are compelling for a number of significant reasons. 
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Users of the latest social media tools are far more likely to post several times a day, more likely dozens of times, each one forming a new conversational beachhead.  This can be overwhelming, but it can also be enormously stimulating and rewarding, as a form of collaboration, cross-pollination, brainstorming, serendipity, news gathering, and countless other activities provide one with a continuous connection to the broader world.
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shared by Oliver Ding on 20 May 08 - Cached

shared by Oliver Ding on 20 May 08 - Cached

這幾天因為八搶三戰打的正火熱，許多推友（twitter 上的朋友）紛紛將自己的顯示符號改成 CT 版來應援。昨天鄭龜先生興起了一個想用推特 icon 做應援大圖的 idea，於是我也花了短短幾個小時，用 Rails 寫了這樣一個應援制服的收集展示區。
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shared by Oliver Ding on 20 May 08 - Cached

This is not a design or Japan related post, but it is so sad and touching that I had to share it with my blog readers. I came across is tearing slide presentation at SlideShare, about a mother protecting her child in the recent earthquake disaster in Sichuan China. Unfortunately the mother was dead because of the hard objects hitting on her. But the rescuer found out that there is a baby under her child and quickly get him out. The child was fine, thanks to his mother. Then the rescuer found a hand phone near the baby and on the screen, it says “My dearest child, if you are able to survive you must remember that I Love You”. This is such a sad story. In the earthquake that struck last week, it already taken so many people’s life (40,000 and counting), and every life behind there is a family, and there is a story to tell. If there is no earthquake, maybe they are enjoying their life right now with friends and family. But the earthquake just ruined it all. I hope everyone can pray and hope for Sichuan so that everything will become OK. And my respect to all the rescuers and medics and many more unsung heroes who are restless and working hard to save more life.
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