July 2008
June 2008
Social Software: Here Come The CMS Vendors →
I’m in the unique position that I get to speak to enterprise brands, white label vendors, and now CMS vendors on a regular basis, here’s what I’m seeing:
It’s now quarter 3, and I start research…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!
How to organize the room →
One more post about conferences. (Except it’s really about any meeting). Easily overlooked, but incredibly important: the way you arrange the room where people speak. The venue owner…
A fantastic book on behavioral psychology: Sway... →
Note: There is a $1,000 giveaway at the bottom of this post.
Do you think you could tell the difference between a Coke and Pepsi?
Of course you do.
When I was an RA in college, my residents…
When Is Good: The Bare-Bones Meeting Scheduler →
Need to schedule a meeting or phone call, but can’t agree on a time that is good for everyone? Try using When Is Good, a dead-simple Web app that does just one thing: zero in on a meeting time…
Watchchuckmore:
Man I must be in really rough shape or something without even knowing it. Seriously, I almost started crying when I watched this video… Or maybe I just secretly loved Armageddon?
Cheered me up no end this Friday.
Watchmascarah:
nickmcglynn:
Brooklyn Bridge Waterfall…
How disappointing.
Working the Clouds - Report from Structure 08 →
Lidija Davis is reporting for ReadWriteWeb from the Structure 08 conference in San Francisco
In a recent report, Gartner predicted that early adopters will forgo capital expenditures, and…
Watchmarco:
unalone:
topleftpixel:
653 frames were shot within about an hour and put together to make the video. To watch the HD version check out the vimeo page
Nice video.
When they were babes: Web 2.0's humble paper... →
Aww, you guys, this is so cute. Making actual babies out of Web people didn’t go so well, but these larval stage sketches of popular Web 2.0 sites before they spawned? Adorable. Look,…
Social Networking Will Become Business As Usual →
From my latest contribution to Advertising Age: “None of this is inherently bad — this isn’t a gripe or a cry for help.
It’s simply an observation that not unlike e-mail, many of the…
Moo Does Business Cards at Last →
Many web workers have gone the non-traditional route with their business cards, and opted for the cute, colorful Moo cards instead. Well, very soon you can have your Web 2.0…
Broadcasting to Your Social Networks →
I’ve been working with clients to set up social media “satellite sites” as I call them to extend their brand and take advantage of the exponential power of social networking for reaching…
Structural Change Is Always a Good Theme to Invest... →
What are venture capitalists looking for? If you are a startup entrepreneur looking for funding, it’s always a good idea to know what investment themes a VC is interested and tailor your…
[UPDATED with mp3s] Take the NPR's Best CDs of the... →
Take the NPR’s Best CDs of the Year (So Far) Poll… It’s right here. And in no particular order, here are some albums that are missing from the poll (maybe write a few of them in??): Nouns…
The power of "because" →
Behavioral scientist Ellen Langer and her colleagues decided to put the persuasive power of this word to the test. In one study, Langer arranged for a stranger to approach someone waiting in line…
The Tiger Woods Rulebook To Being A Huge Success →
Written on 6/25/2008 by Alex Shalman, creator of the Practical Personal Development blog.
If you believe in evolution, you know there wasn’t some superstar golfer caveman from which Tiger…
Evolution of Business →
[image of the evolution of man...]
The Stanford Social Innovation review has a good article on Achieving Breakthrough Performance based on research with Bain & Company. In it, the…
Is Google Ad Planner Getting Its Data From The... →
The recent launch of Google Trends for Websites was just a dress rehearsal. The real product that it is based on is Google Ad Planner, which the company announced today. Google Ad…
Word Clouds →
It’s called Wordle and it turns every text into a word cloud. [hat tip to Bruno Giussani] Let’s run an experiment, shall we? Take a communication or marketing piece you have written and run it…
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BPM 2.0 Enables Leveraging Information in New Ways →
We have made great strides in integrating data across multiple application stacks and data integration has had a great impact on giving a better picture of what’s happening in the business while…
Ryan Auffenberg and the burnished glimmer of... →
There’s a desolate ache to the brand of dusty Americana that Ryan Auffenberg creates from his outpost in the busy heart of San Francisco. As the SF Weekly wrote, “sweet, rough,…
How Facebook servers survive 50,000 new users a... →
In the clip embedded below, News.com’s Dan Farber asks Facebook’s VP of technical operations Jonathan Heiliger how Facebook manages to keep up with adding 50,000 new users per day. Heilliger…
The basics of creating a tumblelog with Django :... →
» 30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer... →
Secrets about the internet
marco:
The most common word in search queries is “photos”. Number two? “Fotos.” The associated words indicate that people are usually searching for pictures of naked women and cars.
Blog readers don’t click on ads. Most ads are clicked by confused, lost, nontechnical people who arrived from a Google results page and think that the ad will take them to what they were really looking for. (This is...
17 mistakes startups make -- the 100-word version... →
In 1999 John Osher started Dr. John’s SpinBrush to sell a $5 electric toothbrush. In 2001, he sold the company to Procter & Gamble for $475 million. Here are his “17 mistakes start-ups make”…
WatchHot girl spins on escalator at the mall. Need I say more?
no thing can be stolen from us we choose →
Found taped to a black pole next to park benches near train tracks in Portland, Oregon in late April of 2006.
[via Hula Seventy]
“If your idea starts with “We’re building a platform to…”...”
– Diary of a Failed Startup
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Barack Obama, marketing genius
jakoblodwick:
The man is telling you exactly what you want to hear.
How does he know what we want to hear???
I would answer - it’s totally blindingly obvious after the clusterf@ck that has passed for a government during the last 2 terms in office.
He’s found what marketing people call the ‘pain points’ and promises to fix them.
Marketing 101 not marketing genius - I...
Top 100 Advertisers Shifted $1 Billion To the Web... →
The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web. An analysis from Ad Age shows…
Everything seemingly is spinning out of control →
littleorphanammo:
misterpeace:
Could America’s awful state of mind come from the fact that our mainstream news media reinforces negativity with headlines like “Everything seemingly is spinning out of control”?
Hm.
totes, misterpeace, totes.
“Even many of the smartest among us seem to have lost their vision. Cynicism has become a supreme sign of intelligence. Compulsive skepticism...
Watchpeterwknox:
ericlodwick:hrrrthrrr:oats:chetgulland:caseydonahue: I DARE you not to smile watching this.
(wow)
Watch it here in HD.
Lucky bastard. Definitely worth a watch and yes it will brighten up your Monday for 2 minutes then make you reallly jealous and wish you had travelled to lots of foreign places and danced a silly jig.
Watchjakoblodwick:
ONN is sooooo good
Virtual Incubator Concept →
Since we announced the creation of the first Monolab|Incubator, many people have asked us whether we will offer drop-in packages or not. We’ve given very serious considerations to this request,…
Every panda was kung fu fighting →
I’m really looking forward to seeing “Kung Fu Panda” (above), which opened two weeks ago. According to an article in the June 18, 2008 Financial Times, it took 25 million computing…
