A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism: is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

- Ludwig von Mises

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The soft economy and weak bank lending all but ensure the Federal Reserve will stick with its stimulative policies. The Federal Reserve stands accused of risking high inflation by recklessly printing too much money. But as Fed rate setters meet in Washington on Sept. 22-23, they won’t see an excess of money sloshing around. Just the opposite. Paradoxically, the latest statistics show a shrinkage in the broadest measures of money. The upshot: Members of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee are likely to announce on the afternoon of Sept. 23 that they are sticking with their stimulative monetary policy. Inflation, while always a risk, remains more of a long-term threat. The economy is so soft and the banking system is so weak that deflation remains a clearer and more present danger. To fight the recession, the Federal Reserve has vastly increased the amount of reserves that banks have on deposit at the Fed. In a healthy economy, banks would take advantage of those reserves to increase their lending. Instead, they’re hoarding the money, so the Fed’s loose monetary policy isn’t resulting in more loans. It’s the process of lending that expands the amount of money in the economy. - BusinessWeek

Dominant Social Theme: More money is needed.

Free-Market Analysis: This article, excerpted above, is yet another reason, in our humble opinion, why McGraw Hill is trying to unload BusinessWeek, reportedly at one point for a buck. With all the commentary now on the Internet and even in the mainstream press about free-market economics it would seem to us that BusinessWeek would at least try to moderate the vocabulary it uses. But no, the writers of this particular piece plunge along merrily, garbling terms and referring to “inflation” when they mean “price inflation.” Continue reading →

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ABOUT VIDEO1314.COM
Video1314.com is currently a Chinese Web 2.0 platform similar to YouTube (www.youtube.com). Video1314’s Chinese platform will be expanded and has plans to launch across Asia in Japanese, Korean and English. Video1314 will grow its business to offer photo, audio sharing and a C2C, B2C and B2B marketplace to buy and sell goods for its members. Video1314 focuses on three main areas:

• Free online photo, video and audio sharing,
• A marketplace (similar to Alibaba.com) to buy and sell goods using video, photo and audio technologies
• High resolution TV programs that can be watched over the Internet

The site has attracted over a million visitors since March 2007. Today, there are over 10,000 video clips in 18 video channels that consist of sports, music, food and many others.

Pursuant to Video1314.com’s business, plan prepared by Samuel Kam, Vice President of Internet Development, for www.video1314.com reports the following details for the Company:

The Technology: In addition to its unique Web 2.0 features, Video1314 will operate Points of Presence (PoPs) across Asia with servers distributed across locations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tokyo, and Seoul, enabling a high-speed Web 2.0 platform for its users.

Marketing: With a target market of over 162 million Internet users in China and over 459 million Internet users in Asia, Video1314 will provide localized web interfaces in various Asian languages, focusing on user friendliness and winning features. Combining user friendliness, ease of use and a chance to sell goods or services freely using video, photo and audio technologies, Video1314 plans to be one of the most widely used sites in China and Asia.

Business Operation: Besides focusing on video, photo, audio sharing and a marketplace, Video1314 is also setting its sights on the future of Internet TV. Video1314.com hopes to be the premier choice of all major advertisers moving from traditional TV advertising to Internet advertising. Video1314’s prospects of adding syndicated programming can be very high once its user base has grown into the millions. Video1314’s systems can offer pre-roll and post rolling of TV-like ads in the videos.

Video1314 divides its revenue lines into the following key categories:

• Package Advertising; Silver, Gold, Platinum through banners or ad areas
• Video Advertising (watermark, before and after video)
• Third party advertising sources such as Adbrite, Yahoo and Google

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD VIDEO1314 PRESENTATION

by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, E-Commerce Consultant
Web Marketing Today, February 1, 2005. Originally published 2/1/2000
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I admit it. The term “viral marketing” is offensive. Call yourself a Viral Marketer and people will take two steps back. I would. “Do they have a vaccine for that yet?” you wonder. A sinister thing, the simple virus is fraught with doom, not quite dead yet not fully alive, it exists in that nether genre somewhere between disaster movies and horror flicks.But you have to admire the virus. He has a way of living in secrecy until he is so numerous that he wins by sheer weight of numbers. He piggybacks on other hosts and uses their resources to increase his tribe. And in the right environment, he grows exponentially. A virus don’t even have to mate — he just replicates, again and again with geometrically increasing power, doubling with each iteration:

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In a few short generations, a virus population can explode.

Viral Marketing Defined

What does a virus have to do with marketing? Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message’s exposure and influence. Like viruses, such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to thousands, to millions.

Off the Internet, viral marketing has been referred to as “word-of-mouth,” “creating a buzz,” “leveraging the media,” “network marketing.” But on the Internet, for better or worse, it’s called “viral marketing.” While others smarter than I have attempted to rename it, to somehow domesticate and tame it, I won’t try. The term “viral marketing” has stuck.

The Classic Hotmail.com Example

The classic example of viral marketing is Hotmail.com, one of the first free Web-based e-mail services. The strategy is simple:

1. Give away free e-mail addresses and services,
2. Attach a simple tag at the bottom of every free message sent out: “Get your private, free email at http://www.hotmail.com” and,
3. Then stand back while people e-mail to their own network of friends and associates,
4. Who see the message,
5. Sign up for their own free e-mail service, and then
6. Propel the message still wider to their own ever-increasing circles of friends and associates.

Like tiny waves spreading ever farther from a single pebble dropped into a pond, a carefully designed viral marketing strategy ripples outward extremely rapidly. Continue reading →