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2 Sure-fire Ways to Make Money Online Pearsonified [New Window]
2 Sure-fire Ways to Make Money Online 158. Yo! Have you checked out the Thesis Theme yet? I'd love to explain how optimized, detailed, and easily-customizable Thesis is, but honestly, I know that you're going to benefit the most from ... Paul Barsch: Why Capacity Management Matters to Marketers [New Window]
In a challenging global slowdown, the world seems awash in capacity. Scans of major business publications show airlines reducing flights, companies furloughing or firing employees, and manufacturers closing plants. ... iterating toward openness Blog Archive Let's EXPAND Copyright! [New Window]
Let's EXPAND Copyright! Richard Posner is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. An article published in the Journal of Legal ... Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-29 [New Window]
Working on the McKay School's WPMU-as-OCW-/-open-teaching platform. @jimgroom, I'll probably be calling on your many skills today! =) #; @jimgroom First ?. My themes are a mess. I only want there to be one theme, and I want to enforce ... Arguing About Free and the Future [New Window]
The hype continues to build around Chris Andersons upcoming book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price . Malcolm Gladwells review Priced to Sell: Is free the future? in the New Yorker rubbed me the wrong way. ... My design is being redone, expect weird stuff in meantime [New Window]
I just changed my theme to one of the plain ones. I did that because we're getting ready to make lots of changes. So, sorry I'll be ugly for a while. Of course many of you are reading this in RSS so have no idea what I'm talking about. ... Microsoft Bing, with Powerset Inside [New Window]
Microsofts new search engine Bing has launched this week with some fanfare and excitement. One thing to watch for is how natural language search elements from Microsofts acquisition of Powerset will appear in this new version of ... Crawling Pages to Address Needy Queries and Search Impact [New Window]
The Web is filled with uncrawled web pages, and some of them may be yours. One of the important first steps in optimizing a web site for search engines is. I Agree I Am a Idiot Disclosure Out Of Hand [New Window]
What if while during a sign up process you had an opt in checkbox which you agreed that you were a total idiot. Would you notice? I am betting you wouldnt. What if I put in a privacy policy that says that I can do anything I want with ... MySpace Myads Webinar (Limited Space) [New Window]
After the huge success of their first webinar last spring the MySpace Myads team is ready to rock with another Webinar. If you waited to long on the first one or missed it this is your chance to get in. Its 100% free and they will be ... Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: July 2009 | Graphics | Smashing Magazine [New Window]
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes. Carnival of the Mobilists reviews Citizens as Sensors post [New Window]
The best blogging of the week is reviewed at Carnival of the Mobilists #179, hosted by Goeff Ballinger at Reflections on Things Mobile. Included this week is Mark AM Kramers recent SmartMobs post Presentation: Citizens as Sensors at ... The Protest Continue #IranElection [New Window]
The protests continue, unabated and the posterous blog Iran after the Election is still one of the best curated sources of pictures from inside Iran. INSIGHT: Worker-communist Party of Iran - Election Perspective [New Window]
Fariborz Pooya from the WPI Press Centre interviews Hamid Taqvaee on the declaration by Mousavi on the issue of elections which is in contrast to the peoples revolt on the streets of Iran. Also the news of Neda Soltani being shot by ... Interview with Darren Rowse [New Window]
This week we were lucky enough to have an amazing interview with Darren Rowse. Darren Rowse is perhaps the most famous full time Blogger in the area of helping other bloggers add income streams to their blogs. www.Problogger.net ... How To Create A Marketing Campaign That Everyone Will Be Talking About [New Window]
People are being bombarded with marketing messages, from the time they get up in the morning and switch on the radio or TV, to the time that they venture out into the real world, to the time that they eat their TV dinner before crashing ... You cannot delegate entrepreneurship - if you are going to make ... [New Window]
If any of you have flown easyJet, stayed in an easyHotel, or rented an easyCar, then you know this serial entrepreneur. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou defines the entrepreneurial spirit, both by his success in developing businesses and in ... Interview with Brad Sugars [New Window]
I am really excited about this weeks interview with Brad Sugars. He is an amazing entrepreneur, and the founder of ActionCoach.com - read on to find out more. 1. Having had 27 jobs by the time you finished your degree must have given ... The Most Common Errors When Writing A Business Plan [New Window]
Posted on 29 June 2009. Business Plan The thought of compiling a formal business plan can be quite daunting to the entrepreneur. Many of us see ourselves as the creative type rather than the formal intellectual and we might have an ... Google Voice: The New Coolest Thing Ever | WebProNews [New Window]
Google Voice: The New Coolest Thing Ever. By Mike McDonald - Sat, 07/04/2009 - 08:42. Check your tinfoil hats at the door. What would you say if a company asked you if you'd like to have all of your home, work and cell phone calls, ... Hashtags Now Linking in Twitter | WebProNews [New Window]
Hashtags Now Linking in Twitter. By Chris Crum - Fri, 07/03/2009 - 05:51. Greater Emphasis Put on Twitter Search. Twitter has started linking hashtags in tweets to Twitter searches. A few other Twitterers have started to notice as well: ... Interested in Thesis? Get it Now in this Limited-offer Black ... [New Window]
Thesis Black Friday Sale. Were having a Black Friday Sale over at DIYthemes, and from now until supplies run out, you can get Thesis at an unprecedented 20% discount. To cash in, simply enter the following coupon code when you purchase ... How to Customize Your Random Header Images [New Window]
After downloading Neoclassical, one of the first things youll want to do is customize the random header images that now grace the top of your sites pages. Doing this effectively requires knowledge of exactly how these things work, ... What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Categories [New Window]
Because of the way they are misused all over the Web, categories have grown to become something that we regard in a purely user-centric light. We think of them as navigational tools and guides for users, but in reality, categories are a ... Ted Mininni: How Can Supermarkets Truly Differentiate? [New Window]
Good question, isnt it? Have you ever found yourself in a mall store and due to being in virtually the same environment as every other store, and being surrounded by virtually the same merchandise, have you had to step back outside the ... Paul Dunay: Social Search: Could It Be a Google Killer? [New Window]
This morning I typed into Google the search term: VoIP (which stands for Voice over Internet Protocol) and I got 64 Million responses. 64 Million!! How archaic is that? Does Google have any idea how long would it take me to go through ... Ann Handley: B2B According to Me: The Winners [New Window]
Attendees who blogged about the MarketingProfs B2B Forum (and let us know about it) had the opportunity to win a pass to our Digital Marketing Mixer this fall in Chicago. Well, the votes are in, and here are the winners! ... Beth Harte: A Grand-Slam for Dennys? [New Window]
Have you heard about the Dennys Allnighter? What about the Dennys Creature Comforts campaign? No? Thats okay; I didnt either. Its probably a sign of the times that I am too old to appreciate staying up until 2AM and heading to ... OA, All the Way [New Window]
Open Education News and Open Access News are running stories about a new OA mandate from the Institute of Education Sciences: Recipients of awards are expected to publish or otherwise make publicly available the results of the work ... Scholarships for Open Ed 2009! [New Window]
Weve announced the availability of three scholarships for this years conference, based on the generous support of scholarship sponsors. If youd like to come to Open Ed 2009 but cant afford to, come apply for a scholarship! Coming Dangerously Close [New Window]
In my science fiction tale of the future of the open education movement, the OpenCourseWars, I predict a time when the federal government creates a funding pool to support the creation of open courses to which the public would have free ... Ruh Oh- Do MacBook's Really Die? [New Window]
So after landing here in Sydney, changing planes for Melbourne, my MacBook Pro doesn't love me anymore. Press power button, get grey screen and nothing else. No howdy tone; not even a lighted caps lock key. This feels really bad. ... Ignore Everybody (Including me) [New Window]
My good friend, Hugh MacLeod was not ignoring me by being kind enough to let me get an advance copy of his new book called Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity. You can pre-order it both in paperback and for the Kindle. ... Loyalty Should be a Friction Free Activity [New Window]
My friend Tom Corr co-owns the Soup Nutsy here in Toronto. More spots opening around town, great soups, good prices, and a very simply loyalty program: Get a card, get stamps, get a free soup after you get a bunch of stamps. Simple. ... An Important Tip for Pitching VCs [New Window]
Many VCs are super accessible. They will listen to something at least once. Most of us will take a read at an coherent email. Heck, even if English is your second language, most of us will give you some time. ... OVCF Sends Out the Love to ILR [New Window]
Razor and the gang at I Love Rewards continue to blow the doors off on all fronts and metrics. The fine folks at the Ontario Venture Capital Fund (OVCF) jumped onto the ILR bandwagon with its first direct co-investment of $1.8 million ... A Very Clear Lesson for Your Start-Up [New Window]
People love convenience, right? You can always count on people who will pay for the benefit of stepping up, past, and through others, eh? Not necessarily. Verified Identity Pass Inc., the company behind the CLEAR card has shut down. ... Geeks Linked to Business = Success [New Window]
Here are two examples from my past that I will connect in a minute, stay with me. A very long time ago, I had an opportunity to work for Sabre (the airline reservations system). During the interview process, I had a chance to speak with ... The Stop Watch Test [New Window]
Over the past few weeks, Ive been heads down working on a bunch of things for a few portfolio companies as well as having a ton of 30 minute no harm, no foul meetings. One of the interesting things about those meetings is the vast ... iStopOver Launched [New Window]
Brightspark Studios, located here in Toronto, launched iStopOver this week. The value proposition is simple. Company A has unused office space and you are coming to town. Rather than sit on your bed for a meeting with a client (yeah, ... Big Upgrade At Microsoft [New Window]
Microsoft is formally giving up on American talent for executives. I know this to be true because Uber-Canadian Mark Relph is leaving Microsoft Canada and heading over to Redmond to be in charge of the Windows Ecosystem Team. ... Digg considering to acquire two social news sites [New Window]
The Social News Insider has got some very solid tips claiming that Digg is in serious talks with both coRank and Meneame, with a possible acquisition in mind. coRank is a site where anyone can create their own social news site. ... 10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine [New Window]
With the power of the Web, and more eyes watching than ever, it's important for a business to communicate its unique message clearly. The easiest. 35 Examples Of Stunning Macro Photography [New Window]
Macro photography is also known as close-up photography. Compared to other types of photography, macro photography is quite difficult, because of the nifty equipment, lightning and other techniques involved. However, in the end it comes ... 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills [New Window]
Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills dont come overnight, and they require patience and determination. ... 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design [New Window]
CSS-design is not easy. We need to find workaround across browser inconsistencies, not that easy CSS-concepts and quite counterintuitive CSS-solutions. However, there are effective and useful CSS-tools and Smashing Magazine reviewed ... Facebook's latest raise to cash out employees is disgusting [New Window]
"Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees. Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.s employees have now toiled at the company for ... Stop Pitching [New Window]
Recently, Alex and I had one of the best conversations about Path 101 that we've had with an investor so far. We talked about what we've learned, the space, our approach, etc. They were extremely thoughtful in terms of where the market ... Big media: You suck at Google [New Window]
How many people did the following search for Obama's speech this morning? Ariana got all the traffic and the rest of the big boys had nothing to show me. Why do I have to be Mr. Pink? [New Window]
Why do I have to be Mr. Pink?, originally uploaded by ceonyc. No more JAS Mart on 23rd [New Window]
No more JAS Mart on 23rd, originally uploaded by ceonyc. My recent tracks on Last.fm [New Window]
The most recent tracks I've been listening to on last.fm: YKK by Fluke from the Puppy album. Listen to it now . Setback by Fluke from the Risotto album. Listen to it now . Goodnight Lover by Fluke from the Risotto album. ... Internet Week NY: Celebrating NYCs Tech Scene, One Social Media ... [New Window]
Amanda hits this one right on the head: "THE NOT-SO-GOOD - Where are the Developers? There are few events that involve actually learning how to code and/or build stuff (exceptions here and here). From what I can tell, the best way to ... Venture Realities: Startup financing news from the frontlines [New Window]
I had a fascinating conversation with an early/seed stage investor yesterday who basically described the market as follows... He said that, over the course of all of their deals (over 50), they've done a very good job figuring out what ... She dreams in digital: Dating on and off the grid [New Window]
I dated someone once who tried getting to know me better by going back and reading every single one of my blog posts from day one--back in February 2004. Whenever she would confuse the events of the present time with something that she ... Why more channels equals more relevance [New Window]
I've clearly been blogging less these days...but when I do, the overall quality (or at least effonrt) is up at a pretty high level. I'm a writer--I still love writing essay length posts and always will. But since I started using Twitter ... When You Are Led By Values, It Doesnt Cost Your Business, It ... [New Window]
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have ice cream in their veins. These two unlikely entrepreneurial heroes rose to pop culture status by following different paths. Jerry is more of the joker, always ready with a quick quip, who landed his ... Google Maps Gets You Ready For The Fourth | WebProNews [New Window]
Google Maps Gets You Ready For The Fourth. By Doug Caverly - Thu, 07/02/2009 - 16:51. Discover (or mark) the best celebrations. We'll admit it from the start; this development doesn't amount to Google's execs weeping while singing "My ... The Sweet Remains [New Window]
As some of you know, my brother, Rich Price, is an rising star in the singer-song writer world. He recently formed a new band, The Sweet Remains, with Greg Naughton and Brian Chartrand. Their new album, Laurel and Sunset, ... Widgetbox Update [New Window]
On Jan 22nd, Widgetbox launched its first subscription service, Blidget Pro. Since launch, CBS, eBay/Kijji, the Golden State Warriors, LA Lakers, the Michigan Times, Lockheed Martin, Steve Spangler Science, and hundreds of other content ... Widgetbox and Atlassian [New Window]
Widgetbox and Atlassian just announced an integration that allows Confluence users to add Widgetbox widgets - over 120000 - to their wiki. Venturebeat covered the story here. Atlassian is one of enterprise software's real success ... The Education of an American Dreamer [New Window]
In 2005, I wrote about Pete Peterson's wonderful book, Running on Empty. I just finished is autobiography, The Education of An American Dreamer and highly recommend it. Running on Empty indicts both Republicans and Democrats for ... Widgetbox Hits 100m Uniques [New Window]
Widgetbox recently hit an important milestone - 100m monthly uniques as measured by Quantcast. To put 100m into perspective, Widgetbox is now the web's 19th largest network. It is tremendously rewarding to work on a technology platform ... Wolf Wanderings [New Window]
My cousin is a wildlife biologist at the University of Montana. He just sent me an email from one of his colleagues about the wanderings of a wolf they had collared. The email follows, but is an amazing reminder of the huge range ... Interview with MIS Financial Review [New Window]
During my time in Sydney, I spent some time with Julian Bajkowski, a reporter with MIS Financial Review, which covers the Australian IT market. The article he wrote on our talk and Widgetbox can be found here. Thanks to Julian. Blidget Pro [New Window]
Widgetbox just launched an embeddable widget creator. Simply enter your blog feed, youtube, twitter, hulu, flickr, or vimeo user id into the the widget below and build a branded, tabbed widget that aggregates all your content, ... Widgetbox Turns 3 [New Window]
Today, Widgetbox turns three. On April 1, 2006, Ed Anuff, Dean Moses, and Giles Goodwin formally started Widgetbox. Here is a copy, thanks to archive.org, of the first front door. The site promised to "change how the world thinks about ... There's No Need to Bat .900 [New Window]
This Sunday's NYT included an interview with John Donahoe, eBay's CEO. When asked how his management style has evolved, he pointed to a lesson from an early mentor. "Another part of my management style I learned from Kent Thiry, ... Wheels up Vegas here we come! The Jason Calacanis Weblog [New Window]
Leave a comment. Name (required). Mail (will not be published) (required). Website. Notify me of follow-up comments via email. I'm answering questions on Mahalo Answers! View my latest answers... Toro, a bulldog ... Funny Mahalo sign sent by a TWiSt fan :) [New Window]
Jason@Calacanis.com | Mobile: 310-456-4900 http://www.calacanis.com | http://www.mahalo.com Executive Assistant: admin@calacanis.com. The Five Stages Of Idea Acceptance | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog [New Window]
You feel a little jittery. Is it the presentation? Or the pot of coffee you drank this morning while rehearsing? You gather your laptop and index cards and head to the conference room. This is the big day. You've been working on the ... iterating toward openness Blog Archive WPMU as OCW Platform [New Window]
WPMU as OCW Platform. We've been using WPMU to power our OCW project in the David O. McKay School of Education for a year now. It's been extremely straightforward and simple to run every course has its own blog on the WPMU instance. ... Real Time News to take step forward today [New Window]
In a little while, at about 4 p.m., I will be at a small company in Silicon Valley to introduce another key piece of the Real-Time Web to you. This time it's about news. You've seen the news from Google announced today, but their news ... Chasing the magical experience [New Window]
Pierre's chalet (view from the hot tub). In all the hype about celebrities over on Twitter and Facebook we've forgotten something: experiences you have with crowds of other people are rarely magical unless it's a concert and, even then, ... Beautiful Examples of Vexel Artworks and Tutorials | Inspiration ... [New Window]
Vexel art is a digital art that is an entirely pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the vector graphics technique, but is distinguished from. Smart Mobs Blog Archive Eric Schmidt on what we need for change [New Window]
Topics, 21st Century Literacies (119), Always-On Panopticon...or Cooperation Amplifier (1292), Beyond (350), Computation Nations and Swarm Supercomputers (443), Features (74), How to Recognize The Future When It Lands On You (1256) ... As an Entrepreneur - What is the one thing you cannot do without ... [New Window]
Posted on 03 July 2009. gadget Over the last few weeks we have been asking you As an Entrepreneur - What is the one thing you cannot do without?. Thanks to everyone who entered, the overall winner was the iPhone - so entrepreneurs, ... GoDaddy Makes Twitter Part Of Domain Registration Process | WebProNews [New Window]
GoDaddy Makes Twitter Part Of Domain Registration Process. By Doug Caverly - Fri, 07/03/2009 - 08:50. Implies all site owners should have accounts. GoDaddy is sometimes hard to take seriously; its marketing department seems to be run by ... Landing in Aspen is really scary and beautiful. The Jason ... [New Window]
[Jc-mahalo Aspen] Jason@Calacanis.com | Mobile: 310-456-4900 http://www.calacanis.com | http://www.mahalo.com. Executive Assistant: admin@calacanis.com. | Permalink | Comments [0] ... SkyGrid launches free real-time-web news service into private beta [New Window]
Yesterday I visited Kevin Pomplun, CEO and Founder of SkyGrid, and while they were turning on the servers he introduced the new real-time news engine to me. The video is 45 minutes, but you'll learn a lot about how this real-time news ... What San Francisco/Silicon Valley can learn from the Twittering ... [New Window]
Zappos Tour. Yesterday I was lucky enough to visit Zappos and get a tour and talk with some of their executives, including Tony Hsieh, CEO. Up until now most of what I knew about Zappos was that they had a lot of people on Twitter (434 ... apophenia: answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices [New Window]
"Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data" | Main | is Facebook for old people? May 16, 2009. answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices. Before I headed to Atlanta to do fieldwork, ... We Live in Public screening #wlip The Jason Calacanis Weblog [New Window]
We Live in Public screening #wlip. Jason@Calacanis.com | Mobile: 310-456-4900 http://www.calacanis.com | http://www.mahalo.com. Executive Assistant: admin@calacanis.com. | Permalink | Comments [0] ... In dentist chair for next 90 minutes Fun! The Jason Calacanis ... [New Window]
In dentist chair for next 90 minutes Fun! Jason@Calacanis.com | Mobile: 310-456-4900 http://www.calacanis.com | http://www.mahalo.com. Executive Assistant: admin@calacanis.com. | Permalink | Comments [0] ... iterating toward openness Blog Archive Cornyn's Remarks ... [New Window]
Cornyn's Remarks Introducing S. 1373. GovTrack has the full text of the remarks made by senators as they introduce legislation. Here are Sen. Cornyn's remarks as he introduced S. 1373, the Federal Research Public Access Act: ... iterating toward openness Blog Archive Thank You, Marion [New Window]
Thank You, Marion. Utah State University OpenCourseWare is, I believe, the country's second biggest OCW collection with over 80 courses (MIT OCW is, of course, the largest). USU OCW is consistently in the top five results when Googling ... John Chow Goes Legit 301s Google Bot to Johnchow.ca [New Window]
John Chow is now 301ing Google bot to a Google compliant johnchow.ca domain. Johnchow.com will still remain up and sell text links ads and paid posts but johnchow.ca will be fully 100% Google compliant John tells me. ... Realty Company Sues Craigslist Over User-Generated Ads | WebProNews [New Window]
Realty Company Sues Craigslist Over User-Generated Ads. By Chris Crum - Thu, 07/02/2009 - 17:22. Brings to Mind Past Google Cases. Craigslist is reportedly being sued for trademark infringement. A real estate company in Texas called ... 7 Behavioral Targeting Privacy Principles | WebProNews [New Window]
7 Behavioral Targeting Privacy Principles. By Chris Crum - Thu, 07/02/2009 - 11:10. And What Google Says About Them. Today a group of key trade groups released comprehensive privacy principles for use and collection of behavioral data ... Google and Bing Tips for Site Architecture Issues | WebProNews [New Window]
Google and Bing Tips for Site Architecture Issues. By Chris Crum - Thu, 07/02/2009 - 15:00. It's Important for Ranking. Google and Bing have both talked about site architecture issues lately on their blogs. Site architecture is an ... Google Blog Search Gets New Features and a Gadget | WebProNews [New Window]
Google Blog Search Gets New Features and a Gadget. By Chris Crum - Thu, 07/02/2009 - 15:38. Now Has Frequently Requested Subscription Features. Google has launched several new features for Google Blog Search today. ... The Top MJ Song, Album & Lyric Searches | WebProNews [New Window]
The Top MJ Song, Album & Lyric Searches. By Chris Crum - Thu, 07/02/2009 - 14:08. No Smooth Criminal? If you're tired of hearing about Michael Jackson already, I'm sorry, but he's still dominating the news and the web. ... How @loumongello turned vacation at Disney World into riches [New Window]
I love hearing stories about how people turned their passions into a career. Lou Mongello used to be a lawyer, but he kept going back to a childhood memory: his family kept taking the family to Walt Disney World in Orlando. ... Pick My New Business Card [New Window]
The overnight prints Win Business Cards for life contest is coming to an end this Friday June 26th. I have gone through the 400+ designs that were submitted and narrowed it down to these 7. I would be proud to sport any of the ... Big Picture Advertising: New Home [New Window]
I'm now lodging with the nice people at Agenda 21 - the award winning digital media business. Having worked with Pete Robins back in the day at Modem I figured he will be less shocked by my bad habits than... PRWeb Review - Sugarrae [New Window]
PRWeb Review. by Rae Hoffman on January 21, 2009 | Reviews. Meet the Press. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to me on Twitter, which is updated on a more frequent - and more meaningless - basis. ... Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers | Developer's Toolbox ... [New Window]
With its latest releases, WordPress has extended its potential well beyond blogging, moving toward an advanced, robust and very powerful content management solution. By default, Twitter Applying To Have 'Tweet' Trademarked | WebProNews [New Window]
Twitter Applying To Have 'Tweet' Trademarked. By Andy Beal - Thu, 07/02/2009 - 11:46. Twitter is attempting to gain some kind of control of the use of "Twitter" and "Tweet" in a way that reminds me of Google's attempt back in 2006. ... The Rise and Fall of Venture Capital [New Window]
Last Friday there was a fair amount of noise made over the most recent MoneyTree Report showing a year over year decline of 47% in VC dollars invested in the Fourth Quarter, including this article in the New York Times. ... Switching To the iPhone 2 Weeks Later - ShoeMoney [New Window]
Blog Entry About Switching To the iPhone 2 Weeks Later. 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires ... [New Window]
Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing there's a lot to keep track. amazing dinner! [New Window]
i just returned from an amazing dinner with some insanely inspirational people. i had the opportunity to sit, eat and chat with om malik, frank gruber, ryan carson and his wife, brian williams, gary and aj vaynerchuk and garys wife, ... apophenia: when teachers and students connect outside school [New Window]
is Facebook for old people? | Main | gender gap in perception of computer science . May 27, 2009. when teachers and students connect outside school. In my last entry, I made a comment about the value of "cool" teachers interacting with ... Paul Chaney: When Is a Web Site Not a Web Site? When It's ... [New Window]
When I wrote about the experiment Mars did with its Skittles.com site a few months ago, some people turned up their nose considering it little more than a rip-off of something advertising agency Modernista tried a year earlier. ... How to Become a Celebrity Pearsonified [New Window]
After spending nine months in Hollywood, I've learned that pretty much all of the fame-seeking prima donnas out here need a clue. Fortunately, that's where I come in. Enjoy, and Maxearmuffs!1. Want more Pearsonified? ... Paul Dunay: Free eBook: 7 Ways Facebook will Change your Life [New Window]
So I have just finished co-authoring a book called Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) due out this summer. It was a very eye opening experience to say the least. But the one thing it taught me was a profound respect for the Facebook ... TwitSnaps jumps into competitive Twitter photo sharing space [New Window]
We all remember TwitPic, right? It was used to snap a picture of the airplane that crashed into the Hudson. But there are a raft of others that are trying to get Twitterer's to use them. These are in no particular order. ... Improving the world, social media style, on socialbrite [New Window]
Improving the world, social media style, on socialbrite. by Robert Scoble on July 1, 2009. How do you improve the world if you worked at a charity? Well, in the old days you would do a lot of work just to meet people. ... Bing Tweets! * [New Window]
Bing Tweets! *. by Robert Scoble on July 1, 2009. TechCrunch and others are saying that Microsoft's Bing search engine is adding Tweets soon. Microsoft has finally figured out the strategy to compete with Google. ... Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine [New Window]
When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the Quality slider, the number of colors. Best Practices For Effective Design Of "About me"-Pages | Design ... [New Window]
The about me -page is one of the most overlooked pages in development and one of the highest ranked pages on many websites. In a. Paul Williams: ABCs of Branding: 8 Branding Lessons Through ... [New Window]
This week we lost three icons: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and yesterday, shocking news of the passing of Michael Jackson. Without straying from the topic of this site, a tribute... Key lessons of branding, featuring Michael Jackson ... iterating toward openness Blog Archive Full Text of Federal ... [New Window]
Full Text of Federal Public Access Bill Now Available. Check out the full text of the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 on GovTrack. If enacted, this would give the public (us!) free public access to the results of the research ... Retweet this: how StockTwits became my favorite Twitter business ... [New Window]
Retweet this: how StockTwits became my favorite Twitter business (thanks to @howardlindzon ). by Robert Scoble on June 30, 2009. Don't know what StockTwits is? It's a way to talk about stocks on Twitter. Is it popular? Yes! ... How Video Promotion Launched a Rap Career: A Complete Guide [New Window]
This guest post was written by Aditya Mahesh, founder of AMBeat.com, a complete resource for entrepreneurs complete with advice articles, start-up profiles, interviews, news analysis, and more. It was about eight months ago that I was ... Winning The Web Announces Winners Circle [New Window]
Gyutae Park of Winning the Web has just launched a new Internet marketing training program today called Winners Circle. And at first glance, I think it is pretty awesome. Winners Circle is a members-only site with exclusive Internet ... Feedburner Drops Aweber From RSS Counts?? Or Not?? [New Window]
Mid last week a lot of blog owners saw their RSS subscribers count drastically decrease. I had seen this before but it never lasted more then a day (that i saw). I was surprised to see the issue still going on several days later as it ... SEO Checkup Tool Added To ShoeMoney Tools Suite [New Window]
We just added the SEO Checkup Tool to the suite of tools inside of ShoeMoney Tools. The tool works like this. You give it the keyword you are optimizing for and the page you are trying to optimize. It will then fetch the top 10 results ... BrickFilms.com Free Shirt Friday [New Window]
Todays Free Shirt was sent to us by BrickFilms.com. The site is dedicated to making stop motion animation with LEGOs or other brick like materials. Sounds like a rough day at the office, playing with LEGOs. Thanks for the shirt! ... As an Entrepreneur - What is the one thing you cannot do without ... [New Window]
Hi Everyone, Adam Toren here with another poll update! In this poll, we are putting together an amazing list of entrepreneurial tools and gadgets which make our busy lives so much easier. By the end of the poll we should have gathered ... Why word of mouth is still the best form of marketing [New Window]
Word-of-mouth is certainly the best form of marketing available. In a recent study by the authority site emarketer.com, it was shown that fully 53% of online traffic comes from word-of-mouth recommendations and referrals made by ... xkcd meets reality [New Window]
Earlier this week, xkcd posted a fantastic comic about the apocalypse happening and the dead rising to walk the earth. In the comic, mathematicians scribbled frantically and raced to Paul Erdos' grave to get him to sign a document that ... Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody [New Window]
I was talking with a friend of mine today who is a senior at a technology-centered high school in California. Dylan Field and his friends are by no means representative of US teens but I always love his perspective on tech practices (in ... Understanding retweeting on Twitter [New Window]
As we try to work out how Iranian citizens, activists, journalists, new media propagators, and politically conscious folks are using Twitter to converse about the Iranian election, we need to step back and think about some of the ... Taking a minute out of the day to have a cupcake with my wife ... [New Window]
Taking a minute out of the day to have a cupcake with my wife. :). Jason@Calacanis.com | Mobile: 310-456-4900 http://www.calacanis.com | http://www.mahalo.com. Executive Assistant: admin@calacanis.com. | Permalink | Comments [0] ... Watching Kevin Smith on www.kevinsmithschatshow.com [New Window]
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Making the transition from corporate life to being part of the free agent nation has given me the chance to reassess some of this digital stuff we're always talking about. My decision to wait for the new iphone led me to walking around ... Community Matters | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog [New Window]
When you joined MarketingProfs did you ever consider yourself to be part of a community of over 320000 marketers? Well, you are! I know it's a huge number of nameless, faceless people to think about, but as you know, with more people ... Komodo Edit added to osalt.com [New Window]
Komodo Edit is an open source editor by ActiveState that is different from your run-of-the-mill editor in that it has many features that are usually absent in editors, but you might find in IDEs (integrated-development-environment). ... Google on Measuring Impressions of In-Game Advertisements [New Window]
I remember reading a Stephen King novel a few years back, and getting to a point where one of the characters in the book grabbed a coke to quench his thirst. There was no reason to mention a brand name in the story - it didnt add to ... Query Logs and the Slang of the Web [New Window]
One way to help in that process of organizing the Web is to use what people do in the Web. - Ricardo Baeza-Yates, from a presentation on Extracting Semantic Relations from Query Logs. How related might different search queries be when ... juno: the little miss sunshine of 2007 [New Window]
the new movie juno is awesome. if you liked the movie little miss sunshine, then youll love this film just as much. there are still some free screenings going down of juno see if you can get some free passes to a theater near you. ... Social Media Moving to Mobile Media? [New Window]
Heres a piece I wrote for Computerworld suggesting that we are transitioning from online social media to an era of social mobile media or SoMo. Social media is literally on the move. While useful for anonymous and asynchronous ... Flashmob: Mass Moonwalk in Vienna [New Window]
The passing of Michael Jackson has spurred flash-mob-esque activity. this video depicts a flashmob which occurred yesterday at Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria. YouTube - mass moonwalk vienna. Source: Super-Fi. Candidates smarted from the public mob [New Window]
The Personal Democracy Forum blog techPresident has a post today about an e-book coming out next month. The subject of the e-book is how the Presidential candidates tried to use the Internet. We learn that for each of the candidates ... Komodo Editosalt.com [New Window]
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Thesis Tutorial - Advanced Ad Targeting. by Rae Hoffman on December 29, 2008 | Blogging It. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to me on Twitter, which is updated on a more frequent - and more ... Thesis Tutorial - Customizing the 404 Page - Sugarrae [New Window]
Thesis Tutorial - Customizing the 404 Page. by Rae Hoffman on January 14, 2009 | Blogging It. 404 Error. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to me on Twitter, which is updated on a more frequent - and ... Why a great logo design is key to your business [New Window]
First impressions are everything. We know this from our daily life experience, where we are constantly discovering new people, places, products and services and making instantaneous, subconscious, assumptions. ... We Live in Public screening from the other night, next one ... [New Window]
more here http://www.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2009/filmguide/Title/WW. We Live in Public. Embed this widget See full results for We Live in Public. Cash for Clunkers $4500 Rebate [New Window]
Congrats to the Obama administration for doing something brilliant for the economy and environment: a rebate for folks to trade in their old cars for ones with better gas millage. Genius. Cash for ... Kevin Pollaks Chat Show in the LATimesnice ink! http://bit.ly/kplat [New Window]
Some nice ink for www.kevinpollakschatshow.com in the LA Times http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-web-tv24-2009jun24,0,1724498.story. Kevin Pollak. Embed this widget See full results for Kevin Pollak. Smart Trends: Open Source Sensing [New Window]
Earlier this week SmartMobs highlighted a presentation given at the Mobile 2.0 conference in Barcelona regarding Citizens as Sensors. Today, we deep-link to an article from h+ describing the Open Source Sensing initiative. ... Smartmobbing the Traveling Geeks [New Window]
I learned from Vonneguts Cats Cradle that unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. This explains why I knew I could not turn down the opportunity to spend an intensive week in London and Cambridge with the ... PdF09 gathers mob of smart pols in New York next week [New Window]
pdf09. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will keynote the 6th annual Personal Democracy Forum, held June 29-30 in New York City at Time-Warner Centers new Home of Jazz Frederick P. Rose Hall. All that political jazz now in full swing ... now, next [New Window]
I'm moving on from Mindshare and wanted to tell you about my plans. Despite all the doom and gloom around the economy - and consequently around some parts of the ad industry - it's still a hugely exciting time to be in this business. ... Cluetrain is 10 years old [New Window]
Big Picture business card In April 1999 Doc Searls and his partners published the Cluetrain Manifesto, and effectively defined the internet as a communications platform. I've had it on the back of my business cards since around 2000 and ... Apps - this changes everything [New Window]
Those nice people at Contagious have allowed me to share the article on Apps I wrote for their latest issue.Download Apps - Contagious march 09 As with anything moving as fast as apps it's already a little outdated - the founder of ... Peoples ingenuity with mobile [New Window]
One of the many great speakers at this weeks Zeitgeist Europe was Jared Cohen from the US Secretary of State office. His panel was all about citizen politics and covered the way new media was being used by activists. ... Nokia app store to launch Mobile Immersive Experiences [New Window]
With the Apple appstore rumoured to be close to 1 million downloads since its launch last July, the other mobile players are getting in on the act - RIM have just launched the Blackberry app store, Nokia launches their version - called ... This is the future [New Window]
Facebook mobile usage. Google Profiles - a VRM play? [New Window]
The new Google profile seems like a really interesting development by Google - here is a legitimate way of gaming their system - for vanity searches anyway. This is a way for Google to encourage people to self identify all their other ... Mad Men at Clios [New Window]
I'm in Las Vegas to speak at the Clios 50th anniversary conference. It's my first time in Vegas (baby) and the unreal nature of the whole place is emphasised by the fact the cast of Mad Men are live tweeting the awards ceremony. ... Medical Research 2.0 [New Window]
I recently returned from the TED conference -- an annual conference that, as they describe it, "brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers" The speakers at this conference both motivated and scared me. ... San Francisco Office Hours [New Window]
I had a blast at our Philadelphia Office Hours. My partners and I met with over 50 entrepreneurs at our biggest Office Hours yet. My favorite was being pitched by an entrepreneur who arrived directly from Penn's graduation, ... First Round Capital Office Hours in New York City and SXSW [New Window]
Officehours Although the economy is hurting and the markets are in the dumps, we're still investing in new companies and are always eager to meet great new entrepreneurs and startups. After holding successful office hours in Palo Alto ... True Entrepreneurs [New Window]
Last week the Wall Street Journal ran a story highlighting several entrepreneurs who are forgoing salary in order to keep their business alive. Ive often believed that the true measure of an entrepreneurs character comes not during ... Shrink a Market 2.0 [New Window]
Microsoft Encarta Image via Wikipedia. It was almost three years ago that I first blogged about the benefits of "shrinking a market". Ironically, the example I used in that blog post was how Encarta shrunk the encyclopedia market (and ... Yogi Berra wisdom for startups [New Window]
Yogi.ypg My first company was called Infonautics. I co-founded it in 1991 when I was an undergraduate at Penn. This was back in the dark ages of online services -- when people used 1200 or 2400 baud modems. Our initial product (called ... Calling all Philadelphia Entrepreneurs [New Window]
PhiladelphiaSkyline2 Over the last several months, First Round Capital has held our "Office Hours" events in San Francisco, New York City, Austin and Vancouver. Well, now it's time to bring it home! I'm super excited to announce our ... Board Transparency -- and the Implicit Web [New Window]
I just read Fred Wilson's post about communicating bad news to investors. I completely agree that it is important for CEO's to avoid surprising their board and to communicate bad news just as fast as you share the good news. ... Nantucket Conference [New Window]
Logo I'm looking forward to attending my first Nantucket Conference in late April. The agenda and attendees look very strong. Several topics are very relevant to the current environment. Bob Metcalfe will be giving his favorite talk on ... Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon) [New Window]
155890834X.01.LZZZZZZZ I've been thinking a lot about the market/economy lately, and what the economic downturn means for startups. And I've come to the conclusion that while the economic crisis does present serious challenges to ... Back To Code: Blog Community Watcher [New Window]
Last week I wrote about getting back into coding, in part to pursue some pet projects. So here's one thing that I've been tinkering with off and on since late January. (Anyone waiting for a big technology revelation is going to be ... The Roving Eye: The Grin Test, Buh-bye Pontiac, Red State CA [New Window]
Sovereign Risk. Everyone who's pitched knows about the 'grin test' - where you get to take your best shot in front of the executive staff/board/investment committee/limited partners, and then have to smile - and mean it. ... The Roving Eye: Ember the Mini-Bot, PJ O'Rourke Nails It ... [New Window]
How much? Thats my question about iRobot's new mini-warbot, developed for DARPA. Not only is it cute, but equip it with open hardware interfaces and/or programming environment and it should have serious potential for the hobbyist market ... Kudos For Kel-Tec [New Window]
A while back I posted about damage to one of rifles, a Kel-Tec SU-16B, and promised a report on how the company handled the repair under their lifetime warranty. I'm pleased to say that it's back in my hands, with the time to repair ... On The Road: No TARP Wanted Here [New Window]
The rest of the country seems to be taking a different attitude towards bailouts than the coastal political class. Unfortunately for Obama and Tim Geithner, TARP is something to market... against. The following was spotted in Pocatello, ... If I Tried This, I'd Be On My Way To Prison [New Window]
Negotiated alternatives to bankruptcy, and negotiated bankruptcy settlements that differ from strict seniority rules happen all the time. Particularly when there's the chance that some viable entity or set of assets might emerge from ... On The Road: A Wet Year [New Window]
We're out of town for our annual summer camping trip, this time to Rocky Mountain National Park and return, taking our time both ways. We've been in Salt Lake and the Pocatello area, and now headed east in Wyoming on I-80, after cutting ... Ammo Shortages And The Beer Game [New Window]
If you have anything at all to do with shooting sports, even having a family member or friend who's a devote, you've heard about the ammo shortages. Pretty much all the popular and some not-so-popular rifle and pistol calibers have ... Gollum, The Dancing Bear [New Window]
"The wonder of the dancing bear is not how well it dances, but that it dances at all." I was turned on by Ole Eichhorn to the impending online-only release of The Hunt For Gollum. That finally pushed me to lash together an improvised ... Back To Code [New Window]
So if I'm only doing the VC thing part time, and don't currently have my fingers in a startup pie, why the relatively slow rate of posting around here? I've gone back to writing code, and it's been sucking up a fair amount of time and ... Luckily You Didnt Give Us Enough Capital [New Window]
Yes, this is a direct quote, and it came from one of my portfolio CEOs who I was speaking with this morning. The topic was product strategy, and a debate the CEO had been having within the company. Some camps wanted to have a longer dev ... Great PMs Worth Their Weight in Gold [New Window]
I cant tell you how many times this point has surfaced in my life over the past year so. And it did again this morning. Time and again, I see portfolio companies making sluggish progress then suddenly sprinting faster with the hiring ... The Billion Dollar Question [New Window]
Fred Wilson has a typically intelligent post on the social media stack. Most interesting to me was his concluding observation that As the primary social media channels (including blogs and blog comments) become fully open platforms, ... From Toasters to Microwaves: When Users Redesign the Tools Themselves [New Window]
Steven Johnsons cover article in this months Time Magazine has a great insight: more significant [than the question whether Twitter sells to Google is] the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by ... The Synchronous Web [New Window]
Last week YouTube rolled out a realtime app that allowed users to see what their friends are doing on the site. A number of us, myself included, Twittered that this was another indication that the synchronous web is coming. ... Navigating the CEO Question [New Window]
One of the most nettlesome questions for both VCs and entrepreneurs is when a founder should be the CEO and when he/she shouldnt. Particularly when, as now, so many of the best entrepreneurs with the best ideas are very young, ... Dog Patch Labs Outted [New Window]
Ive spent a healthy chunk of the last year launching Dog Patch Lab, a Polaris-backed startup lab in San Francisco. I havent really blogged about it not so much because it is stealth, but more because I havent had time. ... Tweeting vs. Blogging [New Window]
Much to my family and friends consternation, I have become somewhat of a Twitter addict. Along the way, especially since I am an investor in Automattic, I have been wondering about how my Twitter addiction would impact my blogging. ... WordPress One of 8 Most Successful Open Source Products Ever [New Window]
Congrats to photomatt and the entire wordpress team/community! The list is here and also includes: Linux;. Ubuntu;. MySQL;. Apache;. Firefox;. BIND. Best of OnDisruption [New Window]
Guest post by Zack Urlocker. Zack_3 As you may have noticed, my onDisruption blog posts have become less frequent lately as I'm busy with other projects. I will continue to post the occasional article and provide updates to past stories ... Happy Bail-Out, Detroit. Sorry, But The Time For Action Was 20 ... [New Window]
by Zack Urlocker. Zack Urlocker, a regular contributor to this blog and half of the creative team at the Disruption Brothers, offers his insights on the world of technology marketing and disruptive innovation. ... Classic Disruption: Why Wal-Mart's Movie Plan Will Fail [New Window]
Shelves Update Dec. 29, 2007: Wal-Mart shut down its video download service. Original Post Nov. 29, 2006: Wal-Mart joins the battle for online videos in a disturbingly familiar way. In the worst kind of compromise, Wal-Mart is cramming ... Careers: Should You Pack Your Parachute? [New Window]
Following his recent article "Are You A Sitting Duck?" guest columnist Zack Urlocker shows the steps you should take to improve your own position if your company is being disrupted. Mad_parachute Just because it's time to pack your ... WSJ: Wal-Mart Disrupted? [New Window]
The Wall Street Journal ran an eye-opening front page that explored the demise of Walmart (full story). It's a great read and the major points are: Consumers are changing: Price may matter less; Quality may matter more ... Heineken: Disrupting a Commodity Business [New Window]
This week, guest columnist Zack Urlocker combines two of our favorite topics: disruption and beer! Heineken Most of the time when people talk about disruption they focus on high-tech companies: Google, RIM and others. ... Established Magazines Sink But New Titles Bubble Up [New Window]
The game has changed for publishers of business magazines, as described in today's Wall Street Journal. The old days of selling (or giving away) subscriptions to well-heeled executives and piling on the ads for cars and financial ... Disruptive Media: Newspaper Redesign [New Window]
Natpost_front Many major newspapers across the US and Canada have redesigned in the past year to freshen up their look. It's part of the ongoing battle to win back readers or at least to offset declines vs. the Internet and other news ... Moneyball - highly recommended [New Window]
Moneyball Last week I participated in a roundtable organized by Carmel Ventures, with probably 20-30 entrepreneurs in the room. I recommended they all read Moneyball by Michael Lewis - a book I read a couple of years ago. ... Evaluating the real risk of swine flu [New Window]
I am sick and tired of all this swine flu craziness. Does anyone remember the last pandemics which were going to wipe out humanity? - avian flu, SARS, ebola, anthrax, etc... Where did they all go?! And hey - weren't we all supposed to ... Best reality TV show format [New Window]
x-President of Israel Itzhak Navon giving a history class. So here is proof that something good can emerge from a war situation. Israeli TV has pretty much become 100% reality shows this year, importing all the American/European junk TV ... On gentelmen and cowards [New Window]
Anonymous comments (or - "talkbacks") on newspapers are one of the ugliest things in the online publishing world. In Israel the situation is even worse than the US, as it seems that the newspapers have zero concerns of liabilities over ... The two types of ads [New Window]
Fred Wilson has a great post about display advertising discussing a recent comScore white paper about the subject. Fred's bottom line: "The basic insight from the report is that display advertising does not normally result in an ... The Lighthouse [New Window]
A key to a successful startup journey is to always know where you're headed. The company has to always have a single lighthouse that it is pursuing. More importantly - everyone on your team has to know exactly what that lighthouse is. ... Pricing Display / Demand Creation Ads [New Window]
Following Fred Wilson's post about display advertising, and my post about demand-creation vs. demand-fulfillment advertising, I had another thought I'll share here regarding the pricing of "display" advertising (or in my terminology ... Free ad space [New Window]
For an experiment I'm doing, I'd like to offer a month's worth of *free* ad space on several blogs for one of the following products: Sonos; Flip Video (/Pure Digital); Amazon Kindle; Chumby; Nokia E71; Virgin America; Pleo ... "Journalism" [New Window]
Logo_better_place Globes published today an obnoxious article (Hebrew) about Better Place - Shai Agassi's electric car venture. From the first word through the last, it was clearly setup as a hit-job by a clueless nobody "journalist" ... How Search Engines Might Identify and Handle Soft 404s and Login ... [New Window]
When people in the mideastern United States dont hear something that someone says, they may say excuse me, to ask the person whom they are having a conversation with to repeat what they just said. If youre having a conversation in ... apophenia: "Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media ... [New Window]
"Living and Learning with Social Media" | Main | answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices . May 1, 2009. "Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data". In mid-April, journalists heard about a ... How many SEO - 'How many ' queries people use | SEO Theory - SEO ... [New Window]
As with Monday's post, the queries shown below are queries that people used to find content on SEO Theory. The user experience would have been determined by. gender gap in perception of computer science [New Window]
"New Image for Computing" recently released a report in their first wave to understand the image of computing among youth. Funded by WGBH and ACM, this report examines both race/ethnicity and sex-based differences in perceptions of ... is Facebook for old people? [New Window]
In Atlanta, I met a shy quiet 14-year-old girl that I'll call Kaitlyn. She wasn't particularly interested in talking to me, but she answered my questions diligently. She said that she was on both MySpace and Facebook, ... "Living and Learning with Social Media" [New Window]
Over the weekend, I gave a talk at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. I have made a crib of the talk available for anyone who might find it valuable: ... Greenshotosalt.com [New Window]
Greenshot ... How Google May Rate Raters [New Window]
In my last post, I wrote about how Google may be incorporating Sentiment Analysis into the snippets that they showed for some search results. Another new feature that was announced at Googles Searchology was the display of user ratings ... Affiliate Summit West - Day 1 Recap - Sugarrae [New Window]
Affiliate Summit West - Day 1 Recap. by Lisa Barone on January 11, 2009 | Affiliate Marketing. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to me on Twitter, which is updated on a more frequent - and more ... Reasons Even Santa Would Hurt You - Sugarrae [New Window]
Reasons Even Santa Would Hurt You. by Rae Hoffman on December 22, 2008 | Rants in Bitchland. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to me on Twitter, which is updated on a more frequent - and more ... Michael Urlocker Examines Disruption and Disruptive Processes ... [New Window]
Update: Feb. 17, 2009. NYT: Sirius XM averts a close brush with bankruptcy, for now... Things looked irretrievable only a few weeks ago. Sirius XM Prepares Bankruptcy Filing. Meanwhile, equity investors have already been effectively ... Disruptive Media: Harvesting the Great TV Back-Catalog [New Window]
Michael_urlocker_simpsons The New York Times has an interesting story today about one of the few growth segments in big media: TV series on DVD. "Although DVD sales are down this year, television series on disc have fared better than ... That Hiring Time of Year [New Window]
Hiring_2 As many of you know, at this time last year we were looking for our first hire in the San Francisco office. The response was overwhelming, as were the number of really good people that we met through that process, ... Customer Service Is The New Marketing [New Window]
Customerservice I wrote a while ago about our investment in Get Satisfaction and the thesis behind the investment. Well, the Get Satisfaction team is spreading the love by hosting a one day summit, Customer Service Is The New Marketing, ... Next, We Drink Coffee [New Window]
Coffee As you might imagine, the conversation du jour in VC and entrepreneur circles is around the current market gyrations, the Sequoia conclave (and kudos to those guys for kicking off this conversation), the subsequent very smart ... When I Don't Have to Say No [New Window]
Nononono As I was reading Freds post on "saying no the other day, I was contemplating just how hard it can be to say no. While most entrepreneurs take it in stride, Ive had some that just look absolutely crestfallen (man, ... Geography [New Window]
I love living and working in the Bay Area for many reasons...the weather, the people, the landscapes, the startups. It's the best place in the world to be a venture capitalist. However, there are Envs_00011_medium_3 ... VCs and Risk Aversion [New Window]
Nailbiter Paul Graham writes another thought-provoking essay today on both why founders dont sell early (or why they might) as well as castigates corporate development organizations and VCs for not being risk takers when it comes to ... Maybe There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch [New Window]
Kisslunchbox_2 I had a great time at SXSW this year, but the conference has gotten so big that I missed a lot. One session that I shouldn't have missed was titled "The Art of Self Branding." Most of the session was spent talking about ... Talk About Satisfaction........ [New Window]
Biglogo Satisfaction, the people-powered customer service site founded by rockstars Thor Muller, Lane Becker, and Amy Muller announced their company launch today, as well as an investment by First Round Capital, OReilly AlphaTech ... Resolutions [New Window]
Chinese-ox At the end of every year I always get asked what my New Year resolutions are. My answer is always the same.I dont make New Year resolutions (or even Chinese New Year resolutions Gong hei fat choi! :-). ... Congratulations to Sendori! [New Window]
Congratulations to Ofer, Dave and the folks at Sendori for their acquisition by IAC. We met them just over a year ago and loved their novel idea for an ad network selling domainer inventory. Clearly IAC loved it too and so now Ofer and ... Bada Bing! [New Window]
Im Kimberly, Bills ball and chain. Bill is letting me play on his SEO big people playground. I am newly addicted to all things #bing, @bing, Bing related. The more I use Bing, the more I gotta have Bing. I call Bill Bing by mistake. ... Reblossoming Content: Transforming Events Pages from Transitory to ... [New Window]
A local environmental group in my area does a wonderful job of showing off information about upcoming events. Their calendar of events to come include things like an Annual Land Trust Conference, a local food forum addressing ... Search Engine Robots Sharing Cookies? [New Window]
Theresa little park that straddles the state line between Delaware and Maryland which has a monument marking the line between the states itself. Etched across the top of the stone marker is a line that indicates the separation between ... Googles New Review Search Option and Sentiment Analysis [New Window]
Sentiment- a general feeling, opinion, personal judgment, feeling, or sense about something. At Googles recent Searchology presentation, one of the new features described as being used by Google was sentiment analysis. ... James Cook of Kawink Wants to Know What You Think - Sugarrae [New Window]
James Cook of Kawink Wants to Know What You Think. by Rae Hoffman on March 10, 2009 | Rants in Bitchland. Monkey Protesting. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to me on Twitter, which is updated on a ... Thesis Tutorial - Creating Custom Categories - Sugarrae [New Window]
Thesis Tutorial - Creating Custom Categories. by Rae Hoffman on March 28, 2009 | Blogging It. Create Custom Categories. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to me on Twitter, which is updated on a more ... Announcing Tweetwasters - Sugarrae [New Window]
Nice! Tho rae I've got to criticize the wording (of the WP plugin). 425460 seconds, 7091 minutes, 118.18 hours, and 4.92 days sounds like you're adding them together, when really you're expressing the same time span in different units ... You Don't Need SEO to Rank in Google - Sugarrae [New Window]
You Don't Need SEO to Rank in Google. by Rae Hoffman on January 9, 2009 | General Marketing Babble. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to me on Twitter, which is updated on a more frequent - and more ... Examples in Affiliate Branding - Sugarrae [New Window]
The point of difference thing is something I'm asked about often. The point of difference is essentially your brand. By creating a point of difference, you're creating a brand and branding is often what seperates the affiliate men from ... my new project launches [New Window]
over the past few months i have been hyping up a new project. each of those projects have slowly morphed into another eventually resulting in the current one: the social times. the social times is my attempt at covering the social web ... google cant count right [New Window]
robert scoble has posted about the number of google subscribers each of the techmeme leaderboard blogs have. for some reason though my subscription count in google reader is showing up as only 196. according to feedburner though, ... itunes suffers widespread outages [New Window]
not long ago i stopped pirating music as itunes provided me with a great interface and a quick and easy way to get the music that i like. additionally, i finally had some excess cash to spend on music! since yesterday morning ive been ... dc has second highest tech population [New Window]
according to the census bureaus american community survey, the dc metro area has the second highest concentration of it professionals in the us next to silicon valley. for all those that are trying to help put the dc tech community ... big announcement coming soon [New Window]
i have been working feverishly over the past couple weeks. i am preparing to launch a new company. i previously wrote about working on facebook development. i have decided instead to spend most of my time blogging instead. ... burnout may be inevitable [New Window]
today i have really come close to hitting my breaking point. over the past few months, i have been working harder then i ever have in my entire life. there have been no vacations. just work with the occasional party with friends but ... happy new year [New Window]
im preparing to go out for my new years evening and i decided that now would be a great time to write a post. its especially a great time since i havent been writing on this blog for a while now. i am not gone, just focusing on my ... pr people dont break news [New Window]
robert scoble seems to have the impression that pr people provide mike arrington with breaking news on a regular basis. when it comes to product reviews he may be right. the only reason for this? mike doesnt have aggressive competition ... are we born entrepreneurs? [New Window]
as i sit here waiting for a video interview to upload i began wondering about whether or not everybody and anybody is fit to be an entrepreneur. most people would react harshly saying that it would be foolish to suggest that anybody can ... Music recommendation: The Silent Years - By Steve Poland - web ... [New Window]
Music recommendation: The Silent Years. By Steve Poland December 13, 2007. I never talk about music on this blog, despite it being likely my biggest passion in life. One band that blows my mind is a small band out of Detroit called ... Focusing Up: CNET - A Stock To Watch - By Steve Poland - web ... [New Window]
Focusing Up: CNET - A Stock To Watch. By Steve Poland December 20, 2007. I use to dabble in stocks in the dot-com days and before then, roughly 1996. It was the summer before my Senior year in high school and I was in the shape of my ... Juno: The Little Miss Sunshine of 2007 - By Steve Poland - web ... [New Window]
Juno: The Little Miss Sunshine of 2007. By Steve Poland December 7, 2007. The new movie Juno is awesome. If you liked the movie 'Little Miss Sunshine', then you'll love this film just as much. There are still some free screenings ... focusing up: cnet - a stock to watch [New Window]
i use to dabble in stocks in the dot-com days and before then, roughly 1996. it was the summer before my senior year in high school and i was in the shape of my life, because id wake up at 5:30am, go to the gym to work-out, ... music recommendation: the silent years [New Window]
i never talk about music on this blog, despite it being likely my biggest passion in life. one band that blows my mind is a small band out of detroit called the silent years. their album can be played over, and over, and over again ... google ornaments - a holiday easter egg? [New Window]
i was just doing a search for .at domain, and the results page had ornaments displaying. as of right now, this search still does that, but i cant get any other searches doing that: share this. Google Ornaments - a Holiday Easter Egg? - By Steve Poland - web ... [New Window]
Google Ornaments - a Holiday Easter Egg? By Steve Poland December 22, 2007. I was just doing a search for .at domain, and the results page had ornaments displaying. As of right now, this search still does that, but I can't get any ... Twitter Business Model - By Steve Poland - web startup ideas and ... [New Window]
Twitter Business Model. By Steve Poland January 2, 2008. Jason Calacanis is talking about it after Allen Stern brought up the issue. While I agree with their various ideas, I see the ad model being similar to what Facebook has done ... twitter business model [New Window]
jason calacanis is talking about it after allen stern brought up the issue. while i agree with their various ideas, i see the ad model being similar to what facebook has done with their newsfeed advertisements but more importantly, ... Pligg.com is asking $150k [New Window]
Remember Pligg - the site - went up for sale not long ago? Well, despite its bumpy road towards a sale, after the listing received amost 5000 views, only 8 bids have been made, and apparently, none of them has been good enough for the ... social news smarts - event in san francisco [New Window]
today august 9th, the san francisco social media club has an event devoted to social news with kevin rose (digg) and chris tolles (topix) under the namesocial news smarts, community & user expectations on social news sites. ... the pligg sale. do people know what theyre bidding on? [New Window]
it seems that many people are not very clear about whats for sale and not in the sale of pligg.com. of course, those familiar with the pligg history shouldnt wonder, but it seems that the majority of people arent. lets see. ... Publish2 or yet another social news site aiming to change the world [New Window]
Today was the day the blogosphere - well, at least a small part of it - talked about Publish2, a site that has not launched yet (why do people keep doing that?) but that, in the words Scott Karp (the founder), it will create the ... pligg.com for sale [New Window]
mashable reports that pligg.com, the site that supports the favorite social news cms pligg, is for sale on sedo. the minumum bid is $25000 at this moment. but bidders beware. the cms itself is not for sale. only the domain, the software ... netscape bigger than digg? [New Window]
jason calacanis, the man who transformed netscape into a social news site, recently said that netscape is bigger than digg according to quantcast, and asked at the end can anyone get to the bottom of these stats!??!?! ... digg is reaching out [New Window]
coming from someone at the source itself, we confirm something that may not come as a surprise to many digg is talking to some big - really big - media companies. and while we promised our source not to give more details (and we ... a glimpse to diggs new design [New Window]
several blogs and forums have been posting what might be a screenshot of the announced integration of videos and news at digg (screenshot below). nothing really exciting here. noticed kevin roses sencente other cool stuff coming as ... will digpicz survive? [New Window]
techcrunch (and others) wonders if the recently launched digpicz will be receiving a c&d letter from diggs lawyers. this is an area nobody can know the answer for sure - you know, lawyers are lawyers - but from what we know, ... apophenia: What are your information needs? (Knight Commission ... [New Window]
RIP Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS) | Main | "Living and Learning with Social Media" . April 21, 2009. What are your information needs? (Knight Commission seeks feedback). What information do Americans need to ... Do You Want a Free Premium Theme? [New Window]
buy Thesis by August 31 and get Cosmo free Thesis, my first premium WordPress theme, received a major update yesterday with the addition of a new design options panel. This revolutionary upgrade gives users an unparalleled degree of ... Dear Internet [New Window]
Just thought youd like to know, youve only got about 10 hours left to purchase the Thesis Theme for only $67. The pre-launch hoo-rah is over, and now its time to get serious about theme software. I really cant believe how awesome ... Interview with Loren Feldman from South By Southwest 2009 ... [New Window]
At this year's SXSW , I did a quick little interview with my buddy Loren Feldman of 1938media. Despite the fact that I was massively hungover (note the sexy, drooping eyelids), I still managed to make a few good points about Thesis, ... Tipd Launches Today with a Pearsonified Design [New Window]
Tipd financial news. Even though were closing in on the most pivotal presidential election in recent memory, the major news stories arent happening in Washingtontheyre happening on Wall Street. With the Dow starting to look more ... Another New Theme? Or, What Ive Been Doing [New Window]
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For many Web sites, a healthy, normal link profile will include links that are exchanged with other sites. Many SEOs now advise their clients not to worry. Untheming on-page optimization [New Window]
Visit any major news or media site and youll like find that its front page is a hodge-podge of links and/or snippets from stories buried deeper in. There is no such thing as theming on the front-page of a successful large site. ... Komodo Edit agregado a osalt.com [New Window]
Komodo Edit es un editor de cdigo abierto de ActiveState, diferente del editor corriente porque posee muchas funcionalidades que usualmente no tienen los editores, pero que s podemos hallar en los IDEs (entorno de desarrollo ... SEO Myths About SEO Myths | SEO Theory - SEO Theory and Analysis Blog [New Window]
In February 2008, Kalena Jordan wrote an article recapping Jill Whalen's Webstock 2008 45-minute presentation on SEO. Jill is a fundamentalist, eschewing. How Google shows Obama sucks more than McCain | SEO Theory - SEO ... [New Window]
I don't think the science of search engine optimization has advanced enough for us to justify sensationalistic headlines on analytical blog posts, but I. SEO for Subdomains - Subdomains and SEO | SEO Theory - SEO Theory ... [New Window]
Search engines have been tolerant of subdomain spam for a very long time. Google has been tightening its subdomain rules over the past couple of years but they. Greenshot added to osalt.com [New Window]
Greenshot is a screenshot tool, supports several image formats as well as saving part or all of a screen into a file within one second's time. This program takes only a small amount of memory, a real plus over similar software that are ... Chrome added to osalt.com [New Window]
Chrome, the new browser by Google, uses refreshingly minimal design and combines it with advanced technology to make surfing the internet safer, faster and simpler than ever before. One of the things that users find so attractive about ... WikidPad added to osalt.com [New Window]
If you've ever been frustrated in finding the ideal application for organizing all your ideas, lists, contacts or notes, you'll be glad you tried WikidPad. The concept of "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian word for "quick" and is a fast way ... Greenshot agregado a osalt.com [New Window]
Greenshot es una herramienta para capturar imgenes en pantalla que soporta varios formatos de imgenes ya la vez guarda una pantalla en todo o en parte dentro de un archivo en un segundo. Este programa ocupa slo un pequeo espacio de ... Chrome agregado a osalt.com [New Window]
Chrome, el nuevo navegador de Google, usa un diseo afortunadamente mnimo que se combina con tecnologa de avanzada para lograr que la navegacin por Internet sea ms segura, rpida y sencilla que nunca antes. ... How To SEO - How to queries people actually use [New Window]
These how to SEO questions are drawn from Octobers search referrals for SEO Theory. Every month, people use thousands of queries to find specific types of content and they arrive here at this blog. Some people stay and browse the ... SEO for Subdomains - Subdomains and SEO [New Window]
Search engines have been tolerant of subdomain spam for a very long time. Google has been tightening its subdomain rules over the past couple of years but they still dont make a very clear distinction for what is and is not acceptable. ... The invisibility of SEO credibility [New Window]
Search Engine Roundtable found a discussion around the idea that real search engine optimization experts are invisible. I have considered weighing in on the original thread at Jill Whalens Highrankings Forums. ... Guaranteed Search Engine Ranking - Guaranteed Search Engine ... [New Window]
Conventional SEO Wisdom: If anyone offers you guaranteed search engine ranking or guaranteed search engine optimization, run far, far away very fast. Today is the day that I support conventional SEO wisdom at least when it comes ... Nominate outbrain for Mashable's Open Awards, part II [New Window]
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