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SEO, Google and Re-Journalism

July 4, 2010

It’s an old truism of the web that content is king. By content, of course, we mean the textual narrative of a web site, including product descriptions, company information and, of course, articles. The fundamental assumption of the web, dating back to its inception, is that a web page is first and foremost an information [...]

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Value Architecture: A New Marketing Framework

June 26, 2010

I’ve been reading and thinking a lot lately about the relatively new discipline of Business Design. Simply put, Business Design is the development of business models. It’s a holistic kind of architecture that takes in all of a company’s operations and seeks to create new ways of structuring the organization in order to better compete [...]

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The Yuan Unpegged

June 21, 2010

The Chinese government announced over the weekend that it will take steps to make its currency exchange rates more flexible. For the past two years, the yuan, or renminbi, has been pegged to the dollar at a fixed exchange rate. The move toward a more flexible currency regime will be gradual, as Chinese officials cautioned, [...]

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