Adam Breckler

internet professional

Month: September, 2008

Microsoft patents ‘Personal Data Mining’?

Seems to me that ‘personal data mining’ as microsoft calls it, has been around for quite some time in various forms….not sure how they can slap a patent on it in the year 2008.
The data mining component 112 can employ a single or combination of analysis techniques including, without limitation, statistics, regression, neural networks, [...]

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On Viral Loops

Andrew Chen sums it up perfectly,
Viral marketing is not a marketing strategy
Many times, viral marketing is seen as a “marketing strategy” that is interchangeable with other methods of acquiring users. That is, you go through three steps:

Develop your product
Think through a plan on how to make people use it
Declare viral marketing is one of N [...]