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Is this a useful definition of advertising, especially in the context of everyday purchases brought up by eterm? The most prominent brand I interact with is a major grocery chain. …

Well, at least that's what advertising agencies advertise to their clients :) The best-paying sells advertisers make is to their clients and their industry peers.

If he was a multinational corporation this would be called awareness-raising sponsorship

My everyday purchasing decisions are mostly driven by opening my cupboard and checking if there is enough muesli left for the next three days. I haven't seen advertising inside my …

The doubling of post systems as rural bankers in Europe has interested me for a while. Even today the basic bank services in Switzerland are done by the Swiss Post. It makes a fair…

Loading-bar-in-address-bar was an Opera feature in the 2000s. Removed in the Blinkering I think. http://i.imgur.com/kcLWY7f.png (bad example because Google loads too fast to have a…

I have the "anonymous" mode enabled on Linkedin. I do this for the same reason I am using a throwaway HN account, and - if I may presume - for the same reason you didn't put full n…

Eurozone Northern Europeans

4b. Northern Europeans stop visiting and spending money in Athens, Rome, Algarve, Canary Islands, and buying Mediterranean produce until the end of Northern-sponsored dolce vita. T…

Little known fact: the lack of copy/paste in original iPhone OS was a nod to anti-plagiarism and also an attempt to disrupt the education space

I mostly bike around cities, and when I drive I have taken to cracking open a window because not being able to hear cars around me feels deeply disconcerting.

> what's keeping Detroit from turning it's warehouses into startups? Imagine SOMA on a city scale. What's missing is the things start-up employee type of people are looking for in …

Hey! Copycat.

I frequently come across a claim that only 2% or 5% or some other minuscule amount of applicants for most software development positions come close to being actually qualified. (Mo…