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...What basic-cable network haven't you been...
...answer is basic and profound. By focusing on what their customers want instead of what's good for the Craigslist brand, Newmark and Buckmaster are beating the online giants at their own game. Using only open-source software and a plain-text site without fancy logos or graphics, Craigslist is supremely efficient. "Virtually no users are requesting that we dress the site up," Buckmaster explains. As a result, the site runs 1 billion page views a month--as many as Amazon.com--with just 14 employees. Instead of doing market research to plot strategy, Newmark and Buckmaster rely on customer feedback...
BAUMOL: As far as innovations quickly crossing borders, that's essential for us all, because that's the way of eliminating obselescence quickly. But I worry about government support of basic research, reduction in private spending...
...there has never been a problem with alien-voter fraud and that checking for illegals applying for benefits is too cumbersome and costly. Still, a recent poll showed that Arizona voters favor the measure 63% to 23%. Prop 200, says Democratic state chairman Jim Peterson, is "an assault on basic human rights that plays to the fears of Arizonans...
...WORKS: Motorola's A845 comes with a small video camera mounted above the display and can send moving images over a high-speed wireless network that can deliver data at speeds almost as great as basic...