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Flickr: The NOKIA Eseries Pool

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:15:20 +0100

http://www.flickr.com/groups/nokia-eseries/pool/

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Apple - iPhone - A Guided Tour - Large

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:52:57 +0100

http://www.apple.com/iphone/gettingstarted/guidedtour/

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Stoneware, Inc. Home Page

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:27:49 +0100

http://www.stonewarewebos.com/?gclid=CP6Lk5zH4JMCFRuD1QodR21OWA

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Welcome to YouOS.

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:21:29 +0100

YouOS is an experiment in a new kind of computing platform.Access from anywhere. Create a document at an office computer, drive home, continue right from where you left off.Built-in sharing. Instantly share music, documents and more with your buddies.An application community. Everyone from professional software engineers to high school age programmers can participate at no cost. Choose from a growing list of over 725 released applications developed by our users.

https://www.youos.com/

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eyeOS | Web Desktop - Web OS - Web Office - your files and applications everywhere!

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:21:16 +0100

OS in a OS

http://eyeos.org/en/

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icloud - Software should be free (tm)

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:11:18 +0100

icloud - Software should be free (tm)

http://icloud.com/

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Xcerion - Free Software and OS as a Service

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:10:33 +0100

Xcerion - Free Software and OS as a Service

http://xcerion.com/

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Thunderbirds Are Go: Site Links

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:01:14 +0100

Thunderbirds Are Go: Site Links

http://www.geocities.com/johntracytb5/sitelinks.html

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Mahalo Share :: Firefox Add-ons

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:43:22 +0100

Share and recommend Web pages across many different services; recommend a link once and have it automatically posted to any of Twitter, del.icio.us, MySpace, Ma.gnolia, Jaiku, your Tumblr blog, Facebook, Pownce, StumbleUpon, Mahalo, Faves, or Google Bookmarks. Press Ctrl+Shift+S (or Apple+Shift+S) to share the page you're viewing. (There is a toolbar button as well.) Then, fill out the form that pops up and check the services that you want to post to. Mahalo Share will automatically post your link to all of your services. If the services you are posting to go down (as Twitter often does), Share will save the link it was sending and try again later. When this happens, an icon will appear in the status bar to notify you. As of version 1.3, you can store your account passwords with Mahalo so that you can use Mahalo Share on more than one computer without retyping all of your account information. Just click the checkbox titled "Link my login data with my Mahalo account" in the Mahalo Share options dialog.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6396

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Uniquely Position a Membership Site

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:07:25 +0100

By Brian ClarkSTOP PRESS -- Take advantage of your last chance for a $1 7-day sneak peak at the Teaching Sells offering which will no longer be available after noon Eastern Time on Thursday 17 April (that's tomorrow!) Lot's of new member upgrades are planned, so now is a good time to have a look!Everyone wants to create a cash cow with a membership site. But what you really need to do is create a purple cash cow.In the Teaching Sells training program, we reveal how to identify a target market and how to spot a learning need that the market has already demonstrated is worth paying for. Once you’re focused like a laser on topics and markets that already show high demand for information and training, the next step is the most important of all.What’s the point of your offering? How is it unique? Why should anyone buy from you instead of the competition? The way to answer these questions dates back thousands of years to the days of Aristotle. But let’s stick closer to home and only go back 45 years or so.The Unique Selling PropositionIn 1961, a gentleman by the name of Rosser Reeves published a book entitled Reality in Advertising. In this book, Reeves revealed the secret behind his success as a copywriter and later as chairman of the Ted Bates advertising agency. He called it the unique selling proposition (USP).Reeves enjoyed great success throughout the relatively languid competitive climate of the 1940s and 50s by pointing out a specific and compelling benefit to the buyer that was unique to that product. The value-added benefit had to be something desirable that the competition did not, or could not, offer with their product.Positioned in Your MindIn 1981, Jack Trout and Al Reis released Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind based on a concept the two developed way back in 1969. Moving beyond the USP, Trout and Reis focused not on what you do to the product or service, but what you do to the mind of the prospective buyer.Jack Trout relentlessly preached the power of positioning into the 1990s with The New Positioning, and into the new millennium with Differentiate or Die. The latter book comes full circle back to Rosser Reeves and the unique selling proposition, as Trout takes to task “creative” advertising that pulls heart strings but gives the prospect no reason to buy.Purple Cows and LiarsIn 2003, Seth Godin gave us Purple Cow , a book that riffs on the USP and positioning, but takes it a step further. Yes, your product or service must be unique, and yes, you must aim to position yourself in the prospect’s mind. But is it something worth talking about? Will your customers market for you?In 2005, Seth released the essential companion to Purple Cow, and cleverly sought to avoid controversy by calling it All Marketers are Liars. It’s not enough to be remarkable—after all, we talk about distasteful things too. You’ve got to take it one step further and make sure that the story you’re telling is one that people want to hear.Made to StickIn 2007, brothers Chip and Dan Heath released Made to Stick. While positioned as an advanced exploration of the ideas contained in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, the book’s core stands on the shoulders of Reeves, Trout, and Godin, but takes it that one critical step forward.How does something stand out on its own, in our minds, get us talking… and also endure? What determines whether you’ll get 15 minutes of fame or create a lasting impression?What These Smart Guys Can Really Teach You About PositioningThe topic of unique positioning in marketing has been explored so thoroughly because it’s the most important part of any business that hopes to succeed. These books are wonderful, and I suggest you read them all if you haven’t yet.But there’s a more immediate lesson about positioning contained above, especially for people selling content. Did you notice it?Each of these books on positioning is itself an example of positioning.In a nutshell:Each book is talking about the same thing Each author is building on what the last guy said Each catalyst for the next book is a simple change in context All of these books are exploring how to stand out in a market, and it all boils down to the same thing, which is to be unique. Trout, Godin and the Heath Brothers owe their success to the thinking Rosser Reeves did over 45 years ago, because at the core, they’re not saying anything he didn’t say.These gentlemen have just provided a prime example of creative adaptation. They are simply expanding the parameters of the 45-year-old Unique Selling Proposition to fit a new context—an increasingly hyper-competitive and advertising-blind world.Before you start feeling sorry for Rosser Reeves because he’s not getting the credit he deserves in these later books, well, Reeves stood on the shoulders of giants as well. His ideas likely originated from earlier advertising pioneers like Claude Hopkins and John Caples, and the true root of the USP goes back to Aristotle’s Rhetoric.So How Does This Work for Membership Sites?In Teaching Sells, we explore six proven ways to uniquely position your training program, each with concrete examples. You’ll also learn how to make sure you’ve covered the four critical elements of modern market positioning, plus a methodology for working out your market, the existing market need, and how to uniquely position yourself even in the fiercest of markets.Plus, positioning is so vitally important that we launched an entire advanced course about it. Advanced Positioning and Creative Adaptation walks you step-by-step through the entire positioning process, and then rolls into case studies that provide crystal-clear examples of how to create your very own Purple Cash Cow.Check out the inside of Teaching Sells for only $1… but hurry, we’ll be ending the “take a look for a buck” 7-day trial period soon. Jump in with both feet and get started today.

http://internetbrandingstrategy.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-uniquely-position-membership.html

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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:48:37 +0100

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the introductory tutorial. After that, check out the online manual, and the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the links section.

http://uk.php.net/

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Adobe AIR Group on Vox

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:03:19 +0100

Had a fantastic day yesterday at the Adobe OnAir AIR 2008 Tour in London. Adobe AIR brings Rich Internet Applications to the desktop of all three OS's ! You can use AIR to turn HTML file(s) and JavaScript file(s) into an executable for ANY platform - its a bit like "JVM + FileSystem + SQLite" ! AIR...

http://adobe-air.groups.vox.com/

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Adobe - Flex 3

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:02:02 +0100

Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. While Flex applications can be built using only the free Flex SDK, developers can use Adobe® Flex® Builder™ 3 software to dramatically accelerate development. Try Flex Builder 3 free for 60 days.

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/

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Vox Knowledge Base: Vox This

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:38:36 +0000

Vox This is another way to add third-party content to your Vox blog. Some day, you might see other sites adding Vox This buttons to their pages to make this even easier for you. Until then, you can use this bookmarklet on any site you visit.

http://help.vox.com/cgi-bin/blogs_us.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1046

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Vox This bookmark button

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:02:52 +0100

Last week, we pushed out Release 32 of Vox, the release notes for which can be found here. We turned out some cool features, but there's one new bit of functionality in there that we didn't tell you about yet. We're calling it Vox This and it's an API that allows you to easily bring content from other sites in to your Vox. For you Web 2.0 geeks out there, it's similar to the "Digg This" API, and we hope it's not long before we see other sites out there adding Vox This buttons to their pages.

http://team.vox.com/library/post/hey-you-dont-vox-that-vox-this.html

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