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Check out our list of 10 ways to watch your competitors below, and share other methods or tools that you use in the comments.

10 Ways to Spy on Your Competitors

Check out our list of 10 ways to watch your competitors below, and share other methods or tools that you use in the comments.

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"Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world is the 160-megabit-per-second service offered by J:Com, the largest cable company in Japan. Here’s how much the company had to invest to upgrade its network to provide that speed: $20 per home passed."

Super High Speed Broadband @ $20 a home ... Ummm... I'm IN!! http://bit.ly/oElPE {after a yr with xplornet...i'd even pay the $80 gladly!} [from http://twitter.com/macaddict75/statuses/1459374322]

They pay $60 for 160 Mpbs, I pay $30 for 128 Kbps.

If you get excited about the prospect of really, really fast broadband Internet service, here’s a statistic that will make heart race. Or your blood boil. Or both. Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world is the 160-megabit-per-second service offered by J:Com, the largest cable company in Japan. Here’s how much the company had to invest to upgrade its network to provide that speed: $20 per home passed.

Conexión a Internet en Japón. Al día de hoy, 20 dólares al mes por 160 mb de banda ancha

Broadband already has the highest profit margins of any product cable companies offer. Like any profit-maximizing business would do, they set prices in relation to other providers and market demand rather than based on costs.

Peter: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch. Joanna: What's that? Peter: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.*

das puzzles to enlimber the programming mind

Hell yeah

Currently reading: WOW: Google to Launch a New Version of Google Search http://bit.ly/i4UUt [from http://twitter.com/desabol/statuses/3236352149]

Google (Google) has a giant target on its back. Microsoft has been on a spending and deal-making spree to grow Bing (Bing), recently signing a huge search deal with Yahoo. And with Bing starting to steal some market share from Google, it’s proving to be a formidable opponent. Oh, and now you can’t count out Facebook (Facebook) either, which just launched a new realtime search engine. Google’s not taking any of this lying down. Secretly, they’ve been working on a new project: the next generation of Google Search. This isn’t just some minor upgrade, but an entire new infrastructure for the world’s largest search engine. In other words: it’s a new version of Google.

GoogleGoogle has a giant target on its back. Microsoft has been on a spending and deal-making spree to grow BingBing, recently signing a huge search deal with...

Research webpage of Robin Baumgarten, a PhD student at Imperial College London researching Artificial Intelligence and Emotions in Video Games. Past projects include a new AI Bot for DEFCON from Introversion.projects:marioai

super, mario AI - with source code

list na photojojo

Changer le design des résultats de Google.

Googleの検索結果画面をみんなでデザイン。

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-09-23-n73.html

Simple steps to ensure the initiative doesn't lose focus.

Du design comme je l'aime

Straw straw - simple and sustainable

there is talk about the media world, as well as the open source world. And how businesses should "defeat" the masses. Timing, product features, and the skillful use of network effects across market segments [benefits of a business]. This is a very "odd" study

How can a business compete with a free product? It’s not easy, and it’s more than just a theoretical question. U.S. newspapers are finding it difficult to compete with free news and the commentary of bloggers and other internet sources. And in the software world, the rise of open source products, which are available for free on the internet, is reshaping the technology industry.

Ultimately, from the point of view of the buyer, free products provide an important benefit. “Even if consumers do not end up adopting the free product, it can act as a credible threat to the commercial firm, forcing it to both lower prices and invest more in product innovation,”

Businesses Can Win the Competition Against Open-Source Technology

A common refrain for people thinking up business ideas is that all the good ideas have already been done. Finding an established competitor is not necessarily cause to quit on the spot. Here are six potential strategies on how you might go about taking on an entrenched competitor.