The report that mouse lemurs have distinct personalities doesn’t come as a shock to staff at the Duke University Lemur Center. “Pesto is very chatty. Asparagus gets beat up by the girls. Wasabi is mean as sin, and her favorite flavor is human fingers,” says researcher Sarah Zehr. Anyone who has ever owned a pet [...]
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The Starter League launches Starter School
Signal vs. Noise18 Jun 2013 | 1:43 pmAbout two years ago, The Starter League set out to teach absolute beginners how to code. Since then, they’ve expanded their offerings to include HTML, CSS, and design. To date they’ve graduated over 600 students from all over the world. A true success story on so many levels. One thing they’ve noticed along the way is that their best students return back to take additional classes in different disciplines. They may start learning Rails, but then they want to learn advanced HTML/CSS. And then they want to learn visual design. Further, these students seem to want more than… -
It’s (not) Flag Day.
TheBloggess.com17 Jun 2013 | 11:25 amWhen I was a kid I was assigned “Flag-Duty”, which basically meant that me and a classmate were responsible for raising and lowering the flag at our elementary school. We were taught the special way to fold it and everything was fine, until one day the wind caught it when we were folding it and a corner of the flag touched the ground and my co-flag-folder lost. her. shit. Then she confessed to the principal and he got pissy and said that now we’d have to destroy it because it had “touched the ground and been soiled”…which sort of seems like an… -
Rackspace Startup Program Spotlight On Bucketfeet: Artist Inspired Footwear For Global Beings
building436 Jun 2013 | 10:34 amBucketfeet is artist designed footwear. The company’s mission is to find a different artist to design every shoe produced. Talented artists from around the world get the global exposure they deserve, and you get the artist’s vision in an awesome, original shoe. The shoe is the platform to tell the artists’ stories and showcase their art. Bucketfeet collaborations range from working with street artists from Bogota to graphic designers from New York City, resulting in super comfortable, unique canvas shoes that stand out in a crowd. Bucketfeet, a Rackspace Startup Program member, was… -
New DC Metro Maps
Chart Porn18 Jun 2013 | 8:41 amThere really aren’t many differences between the two current proposals, which were designed to incorporate the new Silver Line to Dulles airport. As mentioned in the WashPost comments, the only major flaw I see is using the same color for the background beltway and DC boundary as for the Silver Line. To be honest, I still prefer a lot of the options that Cameron Booth proposed in his 2010 reworking:
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Holy Kaw!
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Lemur personalities vary from shy to ‘mean as sin’
19 Jun 2013 | 11:38 amThe report that mouse lemurs have distinct personalities doesn’t come as a shock to staff at the Duke University Lemur Center. “Pesto is very chatty. Asparagus gets beat up by the girls. Wasabi is mean as sin, and her favorite flavor is human fingers,” says researcher Sarah Zehr. Anyone who has ever owned a pet [...] -
How fruit flies say no to extra-salty food
19 Jun 2013 | 11:30 amNew research explains how an animal chooses low salt over high salt, and unravels the mechanism for how their gustatory receptor neurons get activated. “Not only does this comment on how salt perception may occur in many animals throughout the animal kingdom,” says Craig Montell, professor of molecular, cellular, and development biology and neuroscience at [...] -
Man, these are some ugly animals
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Photo essay of graduation ceremonies around the world.
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The ends of the road around the world
19 Jun 2013 | 10:15 amAlan Taylor, photo editor maven, compiled a photo essay of the “ends of the road” from Google Map. See his collection of pictures where you can’t go any further. More photography.
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Signal vs. Noise
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The Starter League launches Starter School
18 Jun 2013 | 1:43 pmAbout two years ago, The Starter League set out to teach absolute beginners how to code. Since then, they’ve expanded their offerings to include HTML, CSS, and design. To date they’ve graduated over 600 students from all over the world. A true success story on so many levels. One thing they’ve noticed along the way is that their best students return back to take additional classes in different disciplines. They may start learning Rails, but then they want to learn advanced HTML/CSS. And then they want to learn visual design. Further, these students seem to want more than… -
Building Know Your Company
17 Jun 2013 | 1:10 pmToday our first five customers started using Know Your Company, our newest product. We’re hoping to roll out around five new customers every Monday for the foreseeable future. I thought this was a great time to talk a bit about how we’re building Know Your Company. Not the tech, specifically, but the approach. From the start, I wanted to approach the development of Know Your Company as if we were starting a separate company inside 37signals, not just building another product at 37signals. So I went back to 2003. That’s when we originally built Basecamp. Basecamp was… -
VIDEO: Steve Jobs: The Most Important Thing (via…
17 Jun 2013 | 12:23 pmSteve Jobs: The Most Important Thing (via Farnam Street). A simple reminder that each of us has the ability to shape life into whatever we can dream up. -
INSIGHT: The first exception should be the hardest…
14 Jun 2013 | 10:18 amThe first exception should be the hardest one to make. Once you’ve made one, each additional exception gets exponentially easier. Beware that first exception. -
Apple: The organizational Rorschach
13 Jun 2013 | 7:09 amAs we watched Apple unveil iOS7, the 37signals Campfire room quickly turned to awe of what they had achieved. A redesign so shocking and deep bestowed upon a product so popular left many mouths agape. Whether you happened to like the final product wasn’t as relevant as marveling at the vision, drive, and sheer determination to pull it off. Apple has a way of making people feel like that. But what followed next is at least as interesting: We all sought to explain just how they did it. Is it all Ive’s eye? Is it that they explore more ideas than anyone else? Is it never accepting…
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It’s (not) Flag Day.
17 Jun 2013 | 11:25 amWhen I was a kid I was assigned “Flag-Duty”, which basically meant that me and a classmate were responsible for raising and lowering the flag at our elementary school. We were taught the special way to fold it and everything was fine, until one day the wind caught it when we were folding it and a corner of the flag touched the ground and my co-flag-folder lost. her. shit. Then she confessed to the principal and he got pissy and said that now we’d have to destroy it because it had “touched the ground and been soiled”…which sort of seems like an… -
Sort yourself out, library.
16 Jun 2013 | 9:12 amA friend of mine send me this picture she took when she went to her local Texas library. “I found your book at the annual library book sale. I don’t think they read it.” In fairness, there are a lot of animals in my memoir. Mostly dead ones, but still. PS. Apropos of nothing, lately more people than usual have been taking my images, deleting the watermark and then posting the pictures on their own heavily ad-laden pages. I understand not crediting me because that’s just how the internet works sometimes, but please don’t purposely delete my name off my images,… -
I’m coming out of this. Eventually.
13 Jun 2013 | 7:10 pmMe: I’m having a nervous breakdown. Friend: I’ll bring the wine. I’m not sure which wine pairs best with a nervous breakdown, but at this point I don’t really care, because wine. That seems like a sentence fragment but it’s not. ”Because wine” is a full sentence and is also an answer to just about anything you could ever ask. ”Why should I leave my house?” ”Why am I crying at an insurance commercial?” ”Why do my cats all have mustaches drawn on them?” BECAUSE WINE. In fact…why does this post exist? -
Lean In
12 Jun 2013 | 9:12 amFriend: Have you heard about “Lean in“? me: Have I heard about leaning? Yeah. It’s what I do when I’m too tired to stand up properly, but so lazy that if I sat down I probably wouldn’t get back up again. I’m a big fan of it. Friend: No. Lean In. It’s a book about all the ways in which women can get ahead in work. me: Huh. Well, when I lean in my boobs show a lot more. In fact, if I lean over too far in the right dress I could probably get arrested for public indecency. Is that part of the book? Friend: Nope. Not even a… -
Von Trapping is the new planking.
10 Jun 2013 | 1:29 pmConversation between me and Victor: me: Victor, get in here! The cats are Von Trapping. Victor: What? me: Quick. The cats are Von Trapping on the staircase. Victor: The cats have gone crapping on the staircase? me: What? No. That’s not even grammatically correct. They’re Von Trapping. Victor : ”Von Trapping” is not a verb. me: It totally is. It’s when you pretend you’re the Von Trapp kids from The Sound of Music. Victor: Never saw it. me: Really? I rather liked the first half, but the last half was a bit dark. Surprising…
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Rackspace Startup Program Spotlight On Bucketfeet: Artist Inspired Footwear For Global Beings
6 Jun 2013 | 10:34 amBucketfeet is artist designed footwear. The company’s mission is to find a different artist to design every shoe produced. Talented artists from around the world get the global exposure they deserve, and you get the artist’s vision in an awesome, original shoe. The shoe is the platform to tell the artists’ stories and showcase their art. Bucketfeet collaborations range from working with street artists from Bogota to graphic designers from New York City, resulting in super comfortable, unique canvas shoes that stand out in a crowd. Bucketfeet, a Rackspace Startup Program member, was… -
Rackspace Startup Program Spotlight On okdo.it: Bootstrapped Productivity Software
30 May 2013 | 8:06 amLooking for a task management application that moonlights as email? okdo.it is productivity software that marries email and task management, creating an email application that organizes email messages into tasks. You simply compose a message, add tasks to the message, add attachments if you like and send the message. You instantly have email that’s fully organized by email content, tasks and attachments with applicable due dates and alerts when things are due. “I’ve managed teams and projects for years, so I’ve used the major SaaS project management applications and collaboration… -
Straight Up Startup…Featuring Phil Vickman, Marketing Director Of Promet Source
30 May 2013 | 8:04 amPhil Vickman is the Marketing Director of Promet Source, which helps startups deploy, maintain and support high-value web and mobile applications through the use of open source technology tools. Promet differentiates itself by providing a superior customer experience throughout all facets of the development process, including design, software engineering, project management and quality assurance. He holds an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His professional career spans as District Manager with ASAP Software and a Partner Development Manager at Sun Microsystems. He founded a… -
Shifu: Making Your Smartphone Smarter
29 May 2013 | 1:51 pmShifu is your smart friend who lives in your smartphone and observes when and how you use your phone. It knows what are the important things which need your attention and when is the right time to show them to you. It’s the Sidekick you always wanted. Shifu is a smart To Do & Task Management tool designed from the ground up keeping your smartphone in mind. We believe that existing time management tools are inefficient because they require you to adjust your life to the tool rather than the tool fitting in to your life. Shifu is our attempt to change this. http://TheSignals.net -
MyTime: The Easier Way to Book Appointments
21 May 2013 | 10:56 amAn easier way to book appointments is finally here. Book whatever you need, when you want, where you want. MyTime has built a place for you to come whenever you want to find open appointments for services you need. You can check off everything on your to-do list, from Haircuts to Oil Changes, all in one place. We also give you access to third-party ratings and reviews right on our site, and offer exclusive discounts on selected appointment times. Now booking an appointment and getting services you need is as easy spinning up a virtual server on the Rackspace Cloud ! Every business on MyTime…
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New DC Metro Maps
18 Jun 2013 | 8:41 amThere really aren’t many differences between the two current proposals, which were designed to incorporate the new Silver Line to Dulles airport. As mentioned in the WashPost comments, the only major flaw I see is using the same color for the background beltway and DC boundary as for the Silver Line. To be honest, I still prefer a lot of the options that Cameron Booth proposed in his 2010 reworking: -
Reverse Engineering a Chart
12 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amEvery once in a while you discover something that is obviously useful, but for some reason, you never even considered it before. That happened to me today in the form of graph digitizing software. Basically, it lets you create a chart in reverse: it starts with an image of an existing chart, and extracts the data. Why is this useful? Well, sometimes you find a great chart and want to use it for a project, but you don’t have access to the original dataset (it’s lost in time, etc). I’ve gotten around this in the past by tracing images in vector software – but obviously,… -
Google’s Visual Design Guidelines
11 Jun 2013 | 9:30 amHow does Google shape its brand through design? Check out their “Visual Assets Guidelines“. It’s all very similar to the flat design movement, but the level of detail is fascinating. -
22 Maps of Linguistic Differences
11 Jun 2013 | 9:21 amThis has been making the rounds. I like that they used alpha shading to show variations. And it’s pop, not soda. -
History of Spying (on ourselves; 1791-2013)
11 Jun 2013 | 9:03 amA wonderful interactive timeline of legislation, rulings, and events related to domestic surveillance in the United States. You can drill down into each event for an explanation, and links to primary sources (like the full text of legislation, etc).
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Cool Infographics
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Ben Harrow - What Makes an Infographic Cool?
19 Jun 2013 | 9:00 amGuest Post by Ben Harrow Infographics are a visual representation of engaging and enlightening statistics or facts - as Randy puts it, “infographics turn data into information”. Now, a lot of interesting people have said a lot of interesting things about what makes an infographic ‘cool’ - but sometimes, you just have to trust the numbers. Infographics aim to go ‘viral’ - to spread to and engage with as many people as possible. However, with the sheer amount being produced now, it’s incredibly difficult to stand out and it takes something… -
Design With Impact: A Guide to Webpage Anatomy
18 Jun 2013 | 9:10 amFind out all the tips on how to design an impactful webpage with the Graphitas’ infogaphic, Design With Impact: A Guide to Webpage Anatomy. See what you can and can’t live without on your webpage with the Impact-O-Meter. As part of a my recent blog for SEOmoz on “Designing for SEO”, the team at Graphitas created an infographic to illustrate the impact of page positioning. A lot of text in this design, but the information is strong and the design is visually impactful. It’s missing a link to the original infographic page in the footer to… -
What You Don't Know Will Kill You
17 Jun 2013 | 7:55 am1000 people die from cardiac arrest a year. You can die within 10 minutes of the event. EMS only has a 6-10% success rate in saving people because the window of time is so small. Then how do you stay prepared? What You Don’t Know Will Kill You infographic from AED has the solution. This is a very busy design, but loaded with good information. Definitely a good comparison/explanation of cardiac arrest vs. heart attack. The data could have been visualized much better though. Thanks to Justin for sending in the link! -
How to Fold the U.S. Flag
14 Jun 2013 | 10:07 amHappy Flag Day in the U.S. June 14, 2013 Found on the Boy’s Life Facebook page. -
Visualizing International Criminal Tribunals
13 Jun 2013 | 4:01 amVery cool report that uses data visualization and infographics design to communicate complex information about International Criminal Tribunals from the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School, New York City. The Leitner Center launches a new report, “International Criminal Tribunals: A Visual Overview,” providing an introduction to the work of the international tribunals and the conflicts which led to their establishment. Despite widespread interest in these tribunals and the view that they represent a definitive advance of international law and…
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Country singer Slim Whitman dies
19 Jun 2013 | 10:32 amSlim Whitman, the yodeling county music singer whose productive career spanned decades, died Wednesday, his son-in-law told CNN. He was 90. -
Woman, kid in 'subhuman' conditions
19 Jun 2013 | 10:28 amA mentally disabled woman and child were "locked in rooms, forced to work all the time, threatened, beaten and injured, exploited, used as pawns to get drugs," a prosecutor says. FULL STORY -
Did you do this yet?
19 Jun 2013 | 10:27 amEach day, CNN producers select a user-submitted photo to be our Travel Photo of the Day. Click through the gallery above to see stunning shots from around the world, and be sure to come back every day for a new image. Have a gorgeous travel photo of your own to share? Submit it for the gallery at CNN iReport! -
Supreme Court: DNA swab after arrest is legitimate search
19 Jun 2013 | 10:20 amThe Supreme Court has ruled criminal suspects can be subjected to a police DNA test after arrest -- before trial and conviction -- a privacy-versus-public-safety dispute that could have wide-reaching implications in the rapidly evolving technology surrounding criminal procedure. -
Blood, spit and cops
19 Jun 2013 | 10:15 amPolice in Alabama set up roadblocks for a voluntary drug and alcohol survey, triggering accusations of government intrusion.
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Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life
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Stand Up For Yourself. Grow From Conflict and Learn When Being Nice Just Isn't Cutting it.
19 Jun 2013 | 8:20 amGood people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf -George Orwell Nice guys finish last. That is, until they learn what I'm about to tell you.A little background.I am a full time police officer in a department where the daily population goes up to about 100,000 people.In my career, I deal with more difficult situations in one month than most people will deal with in their lifetime. It isn't easy, and it isn't for everyone, but working as a policeman gives me unique learning opportunities that aren't available… -
5 Tips to Make Friends as an Adult (by Acting Like a 5 Year Old)
18 Jun 2013 | 7:59 amCan you really make new friends as an adult? I mean, there’s plenty advice out there on how to help kids make friends. But if you don’t have friends by the time you’re an adult, it seems the world hands you a dunce cap and shows you to the corner.After all, many adults have all the friends they need or want, right? People get married, have kids and have little time for others outside their family. Doesn’t that make it harder to meet new people after a certain age?Well, yes and no. Depending on your geographic location, yes, many people “settle down” after a certain age. But not… -
Ask Yourself These Seven Empowering Questions to Help You Break Through Resentment and Get On with Your Life
17 Jun 2013 | 8:04 amAre you holding onto resentment that you just can't shake?Sometimes it's on the surface; other times it's buried deep. But you can always feel it, gnawing away at you.Resentment can stem from something another person said or did. Or from a life situation that's outside your control. But whatever the source, the resulting sense of unease can fester for months or even years.And however hard you try to ignore or just let go of resentment, it stubbornly imprisons you in its grip, triggering all sorts of uncomfortable emotions at unexpected times. Any number of things can spark… -
With Hackers and Big Brother Watching Here's How to Keep Your Personal Information Private
16 Jun 2013 | 7:53 amDoes the recent news of the NSA and other government agencies tracking your information have you worried? It should, and this guide will offer some tips on how to protect your privacy.Several reports have come out recently that are rather terrifying. We’ve heard that the National Security Agency, or NSA, has been snooping into data of U.S. citizens. The IRS is supposedly looking to follow suit as well with the hopes of delving into the social media profiles, bank accounts, credit card transactions and more.Read more » -
17 Ways To Remove Stress From Your Life Once And For All
15 Jun 2013 | 8:50 amModern life can be stressful but there are some key things you can stop doing that will remove stress from your life and give you back your sense of calm.1. Stop being so hard on yourself. You will mess up sometimes. Learn from it, and let it go. You’re never going to be perfect and get everything right. Stop expecting yourself to. Instead, notice the things you are good at, that do go right, that don’t mess up. Notice your funny quirks, little talents and goofy features. Love them for their own sake. Notice all of the ways you’re pretty cool and stop sweating the other stuff you’re…
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Small-Business Health-Care Exchanges May Be Delayed
19 Jun 2013 | 9:38 amThe health-insurance exchanges due out in October may not be ready on schedule, according to Congress's watchdog. -
Don't Force Businesses to Pay Interns (Opinion)
19 Jun 2013 | 9:30 amCNBC's Carol Roth argues that forcing businesses to pay interns ignores both the costs incurred by the host business and the value interns receive. -
Want More Creative and Productive Employees? Let Them Goof Off
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How to Ask Your Partner for a Prenup
19 Jun 2013 | 8:00 amStarting a new marriage is exciting, but bringing up the subject of protecting your business can be awkward. Here are five tips to start the conversation. -
5 Ways to Promote Your YouTube Videos
19 Jun 2013 | 7:30 amHere's how to get your videos noticed and attract more viewers to your brand channel.
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Andy Sernovitz | Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That!
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This is REAL content marketing
19 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amEveryone is talking about content marketing these days. It’s the practice of creating useful content (articles, posts, graphics, and videos) instead of advertising. The idea is good: If you give people something interesting to read, they’ll come back to your website to learn more. Unfortunately, it’s usually done awfully. Companies hire spammy services to write a bunch of advertorials and pay to cram them into unrelated blogs. Guess what? Bad content in the wrong place is no more effective than bad advertising in the wrong place. That’s why I really like CMO.com,… -
5 real-life examples of how to convert almost any situation into positive word of mouth
18 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amHere’s a guest post Jeff Frank, owner of Simplicity Sofas — a company that designs and manufactures furniture for small rooms and narrow entranceways, wrote for our WordofMouth.org project. Check it out for more great word of mouth marketing tips like this every day. Simplicity Sofas is a furniture manufacturer who sells products direct to consumers through our website. Our marketing program relies heavily on word of mouth. We routinely convert problems, mistakes, unreasonable demands, surprise gifts, routine procedures, and anything else that happens into opportunities to amaze… -
How a 2-star Amazon review makes thousands of sales
17 Jun 2013 | 7:15 amCheck this out: Someone posted a two-star review for the EatSmart scale. And the company handled it so well that it’s now the best reason to buy the product. Here’s the play-by-play: 1. Here’s the full review, where a customer complained about bad batteries. 2. The company saw the complaint and immediately replaced the product. This is important: They acted proactively to fix the problem, not just apologize. 3. The customer re-wrote the review. You’re not allowed to change the 2-star rating, but the customer told the story and changed the headline to “Great… -
Cheese — Important Data!
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The gas pump didn’t have the anti-fume flap
15 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amNo biggie. But it was smelly. So I’ll go somewhere else next time. What “no biggie” is sending your customer to a competitor?
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Small Business Survey: Technology a Challenge and Opportunity, Steve Jobs Recognized as Idol
18 Jun 2013 | 1:32 pmDid you know that the 23 million small businesses in America account for 54% of all U.S. sales? Did you know that small businesses provide 55% of all jobs and 66% of all net new jobs since the 1970s? While big business has eliminated four million jobs since 1990, small businesses added eight million. Why the focus on small business today? It’s National Small Business Week in the United States and to commemorate the occasion, I partnered with Cox Business to discuss the importance of connected consumerism amidst the release of its inaugural small business survey (#SBWSurvey). Available… -
Disruptive Selection: Nature’s Way of Weeding Out the Average Business
13 Jun 2013 | 9:38 amDisruption! It’s everywhere. I live in Silicon Valley where many say that the terms disrupt and disruption have become buzzwords. Pundits believe that the word is losing its promise and impact through the acts and examples of entrepreneurs and businesses that misuse the word to describe intentions rather than associating it with a desired or natural effect. In some of the startup meetings I attend for example, digital disruption is actually a stated business objective. Instead of “killing it” or “crushing it” many businesses are aiming now to disrupt it! Kidding… -
Plugging into the Future of Humanity: Exploring the Human API
4 Jun 2013 | 11:02 amI had the opportunity to present at LeWeb in Paris, arguably Europe’s largest conference dedicated to the future of technology. The theme of the conference explored the Internet of Things, where devices and things connect to one another to perform certain tasks and/or track activities to improve what we already do or make possible what we’re trying to do. The Internet of Things is bigger than we may realize. We are experiencing a shift from a world of inanimate objects and reactive devices to a world where data, intelligence, and computing are distributed, ubiquitous, and networked. My… -
Content is King! Amazon Invests Millions In Original TV Shows…But Why?
31 May 2013 | 9:26 amMy friend Tim Stenovec (@TimSteno) just published a great story on Amazon’s move to create original programming a la Netflix for The Huffington Post. He was kind enough to include me in his article (thank you Tim). He sent along a few questions as I was boarding my flight from NY to LA. As Tim was on deadline, I needed to send a thoughtful response as soon as I’d have the opportunity to turn my phone back on. The quote in italics is what made the cut…but, I also wanted to share the additional thoughts I sent along for context. Amazon’s move is an interesting one indeed… -
Tune in with Twitter TV
30 May 2013 | 4:34 amHave you ever watched TV while using a laptop, smart phone, or tablet? Wait, why am I asking. Of course you have. That’s what we all do now right? So I guess the real question to ask is how often do you use Twitter vs. Facebook while watching TV? In many ways, Twitter is becoming a bona fide second screen experience while watching television. And in many ways, TV may also serve as the second screen to those engrossed in their Twitter streams. If you think about it, the idea that the TV becomes the second screen to digital experiences is rather provocative. Perhaps this is why Twitter is…
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Not Getting My Podcast?
13 Jun 2013 | 6:35 amWhat? You’re not getting my podcast? Get it HERE. You can: Subscribe via Stitcher Radio (my favorite!) Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe on the Blackberry Network and you can subscribe to me via the Zune part of the XBOX Live store, but there are no direct links (sorry about that)! Want a simple RSS link? I have that too. Also, if you’re not yet subscribed to my free newsletter, it’s highly recommended. : ) Want the most recent episode? Make Your Own Damned Show I’d LOVE to see you there. Already Subscribed? May I BEG you for an iTunes Review? That link goes to the SIMPLE… -
Marketing Vs Owning Relationships
12 Jun 2013 | 4:28 amThe reason most companies and people have a challenge with their marketing efforts is that they’re trying to market and not own a relationship. I found myself wandering through Boston’s Faneuil Hall the other day and happened upon the band, the Ballroom Thieves playing for a crowd. I love watching musicians in street situations, because I learn a lot about pure business from them. They need to get someone’s attention, wow them enough to motivate that person to put a hand into their pocket, and earn some money. It’s pure marketing and pure sales at its best. And when… -
Ownership Starts From Within
7 Jun 2013 | 1:30 amI wanted to share a thought with you about ownership. Ownership starts from within. You start by realizing one day that you can own your choices. It grows. You accept that you can choose your goals. Then, you realize you can create a kingdom or a world or whatever you want to call it (your domain). And from there, your ownership becomes an obsession. Ownership Starts from Within People always seem to ask about a specific moment where everything changed. I don’t believe in them. I believe there are dozens of moments, hundreds. We think there’s only one shot, like that Eminem song. -
Shift Your Social Media Usage to Fabric Mode
4 Jun 2013 | 4:18 amWhen social media came out and for the next many years, people have treated it like a main course. Ultimately, it’s more like a condiment, or a texture. It’s time to move it to the “fabric” mindset. I was talking with Jacq about our upcoming talk at State of Now about how one starts a health reboot. In brainstorming, we both realized that we use social media and social networking tools to help with various aspects of our fitness and health. But we don’t make a “thing” out of it. We just do it. The tools just get us to the information and the people. -
Sponsored Post – Two Weeks of Office365 and Windows
31 May 2013 | 4:44 amI decided to challenge myself and really put Office365 to the test. The following is sponsored by Cloud Powered Work, which is a project with IDG, LinkedIn, and Microsoft’s Office365. Everything in this post is mine, and my opinions are my own. I’ve been dabbling with and enjoying the experience of working with my Dell XPS10 tablet for a month or two now, and I really dig the new Office365 experience. The thing is, my entire business runs on a totally different operating system and using a completely different suite of cloud tools. So I’ve really only been dabbling all this…
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The Evolution of Permission Marketing: What You Need to Succeed in 2013
19 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amAre you familiar with the phrase Permission Marketing? If you’re trying to sell anything online (including your ideas), you should be. In 1999, a certain smart marketer made some observations about what kinds of persuasive communication worked well as we moved into the 21st century … and what kinds didn’t. Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of delivering anticipated, personal and relevant messages to people who actually want to get them. ~Seth Godin The 20th century was the era of interruption. Your favorite television shows were “brought to you… -
How To Leverage the Science of Relationships to Gain True Influence
18 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amIf you define influence by the size of your Klout score, you can stop reading this right now. If you believe influence is driven by the creation of a relationship between two parties, where one sees the other as truly knowledgeable about a particular product or service, then let’s talk about the science behind that influence. Establishing influence is a multi-step process that moves the influenced through four key stages. They move from awareness of the influencer, to knowing the influencer, to liking the influencer and finally finishing with preference for the influencer’s advice and… -
How to Build a Massive Email List (Without Being Annoying)
17 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amFact: Email is still (by far) the most profitable online sales channel. That means an essential aspect of your audience is the segment that trusts you with their primary email address. So, it seems fair to say that enticing your prospective customers and clients onto an email list is crucial. Once you start building that list, you always want more. It’s like crack, really. Email subscriber count crack, to be exact. And like any addiction, you start considering desperate measures to get more. Things like annoying the majority of your site visitors in order to increase your daily sign-up… -
“Content” Isn’t a Buzzword, It’s the Future of Your Business
14 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amContent Marketing is a hot topic, no doubt. What you may not know, however, is that it’s been around for a long time, and that it’s finding itself in the midst of yet another “Golden Age” with the rise of the Internet. This is very good news if you’re a content creator. It’s even better news if you’re building authority online. But, are you actually getting the job done? Whether you have no idea what I’m talking about, or you do, and you’d like to take your content marketing skills much further online, we’ve got your back. We’ve… -
5 Writing Links That Will Help You Get Better … Stronger … Faster
13 Jun 2013 | 5:00 amThis week on The Lede … How a 40,000 Word PDF Earned a Massive Audience The Overwhelming Force of “Gradual” How to Write a Good Blog Post, Fast On Finding Real Pleasure in Our Work Twitter’s First Bona Fide Star Want to grab even more useful links, beyond those that make The Lede, plus additional obscure references to The Six Million Dollar Man, adjusted for inflation? You only have to follow @copyblogger on Twitter. // How a 40,000 Word Guide Earned 361,494 Site Visitors and 8421 Email Opt-ins Mr. Patel is a master of taking action on real data. Through this…
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Dan Zarrella
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[Infographic] Social Calls-to-Action Work
28 May 2013 | 9:37 pmFor more social media data like this, check out my latest book “The Science of Marketing” now! Traditional marketers and sales people have known for years and years that if you want someone to take a specific action, you have to actually ask them to take that action. But for some reason when we made the shift to social media, it suddenly became “uncool” to use calls-to-action. I’ve conducted research into social calls-to-action across multiple channels for the past few years and found that in every place I’ve looked they produce increased action rates. -
[Infographic] How to Get More Likes and Comments on Tumblr
19 May 2013 | 9:03 pmFor more social media data like this, check out my latest book “The Science of Marketing” now! Another social network that has become very popular in the past few years but is marked by a lack of marketing data is Tumblr. It’s a fertile petri dish for some of the web’s most contagious content and has a fascinatingly wide demographic profile. And with the added buzz it’s getting from the much-talked about Yahoo acquisition, social media professionals should not ignore it. Gnip gave me access to the Tumblr firehose a little while back and I used it to collect a… -
[Infographic] Exclamation Points Get More Retweets, but Fewer Clicks
13 May 2013 | 9:10 pmFor more social media data like this, order my latest book “The Science of Marketing” now! In response to a tweeted question from Rand Fishkin I decided to take a quick look at the relationship between exclamation points in tweets and retweets and clicks. I used a dataset of more than 2 million link-containing tweets sent by accounts with at least 1,000 followers and found something interesting. Tweets with exclamation points got more retweets-per-follower, but fewer clicks-per-follower. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Share this on Reddit Stumble upon… -
New Data Shows the 7 Most Powerful Calls-to-Action for More Retweets
6 May 2013 | 9:14 pmFor more social media data like this, order my latest book “The Science of Marketing” now! I’m a big fan of social calls-to-action. Previously, I’ve found evidence that they work on Facebook and Twitter. So I wanted to expand my research and see if I could find more words and phrases that were good at spurring people to social action. Using a huge data set of more than 2.7 million Tweets provided to me by the awesome folks at Buffer, I analyzed the use of calls-to-action (like “please retweet”) and their relationship to retweets. To control for number of… -
New Data Shows the Importance of Hashtags on Instagram
29 Apr 2013 | 10:19 pmFor more social media data like this, order my latest book “The Science of Marketing” now! One of the quickest growing social media platforms on the web at the moment is Instagram, but there’s a lack of marketing data about it. I decided to collect data on just over 1 million images posted to the site and found several interesting takeaways. The first, which you’ll find in the infographic below, is the importance of hashtags. Not only do images that include hashtags get more likes than images that do not, there are certain hashtags that are correlated with more likes…
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Fast Company
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Can You Spot The Animal Sounds Hiding In These Prints?
19 Jun 2013 | 10:30 amWe all know what a whale sounds like--but what does all that singing look like? Humans have five senses that we interpret in extremely specific ways--and not always the best way. Anyone who’s ever mixed music digitally has benefitted from the ability to see sound in waveforms, which can be a visual shorthand that’s far faster than listening to a clip again. Mark Fischer takes the principle of seeing sound even further in his project Aguasonic Acoustics. After collecting the calls of whales, dolphins, and birds, Fischer interprets the data into a wavelet, or what my pea brain… -
Creating A Giant Database Of Genomes To Figure Out What Makes Us Tick
19 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amWith large datasets, it should be easier for scientists to identify mutations that cause disease. What happens when the open data movement collides with research from around the world aimed at decoding the human genome? The creation of a global database of information on genetic variation and health, that could give thousands of researchers and doctors access to information that could both change the way they carry out projects and even save patients’ lives. The New York Times reports that research institutions from 41 countries have agreed to come up with a way to share their learning… -
How ThinkPad Designer Richard Sapper Could Have Been Jony Ive
19 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amIn an interview with Dezeen, the German designer recalls turning down a job offer from Steve Jobs. In an interview published today on Dezeen, Richard Sapper reveals that he could have been Jony Ive. Steve Jobs tried to hire the German industrial designer, who is responsible for creating IBM’s iconic ThinkPad, the Tizio lamp, and other cutting-edge designs. In fact, Sapper tells Dezeen’s Alyn Griffiths that he was under an exclusive contract with Big Blue when Jobs came calling: Jobs once wanted to hire me to do the design of Apple [computers] but the circumstances weren’t… -
Fish 2.0 Tries To Find New Models To Keep Fish Alive And Feeding Us
19 Jun 2013 | 9:00 amThe competition challenged businesses to come up with sustainable fishing models that were interesting enough to attract VC dollars. For the last 50 years, commercial fishing has meant massive trawlers catching as many fish as possible until they ran out. As fish populations have plummeted around the world, this business-as-usual has become a death sentence for species from cod in Canada to tuna in the tropics (PDF) (both fisheries are now functionally extinct). Because fisherman can now wipe out a tenth of a species in less than 15 years, dozens more are destined to follow in their wake. Now… -
An Entire Amusement Park Compressed Into A 4-Ton Cube
19 Jun 2013 | 9:00 amJames Dive put an amusement park through the compactor and framed the remains as a sculpture. For some, there are fewer youthful pleasures more exhilarating than a trip to the amusement park, with all its attendant but fleeting charms--funnel cakes, hour-long queues, and stomach-churning rides. That’s why James Dive’s new sculpture, Once, an entire theme park compressed into a tidy cubic monolith, is fun, poignant, and more than a little perverse. Or in Dive’s own words, “brutal.” The new sculpture, installed as part of the Sculpture by the Sea program in Aarhus,…
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Foursquare Blog
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A different kind of time travel – go back to the New York of 100+ years ago
19 Jun 2013 | 10:32 amLast week we launched the Foursquare Time Machine to help you relive your past check-ins and adventures. Now there’s the NYPL Time Traveller, and app that transports you a lot further back in time, to the New York of the 1870s to 1970s. To try out the Time Traveller, simply connect your Foursquare account to the app. It’ll let you know whenever you check in near the site of historical photographs, and you can tap through to view them. -
Run a business? Check out ways to easily add Foursquare to your social media toolkit.
19 Jun 2013 | 8:39 amIf you run a business, you may be using more than one social media channel to reach your customers – and maybe even using another product to help you manage them all in one place. A pizza parlor, for example, might use MomentFeed to manage its Twitter and Facebook accounts from the same dashboard. With all those busy store and social media managers in mind, we’ve worked closely with several partners to make sure that whatever dashboard you prefer, it’s easy to use all of Foursquare’s free business tools. Starting today, we’ve teamed up with a dozen awesome partners to put… -
Say hello to the Foursquare Time Machine
13 Jun 2013 | 7:50 amWith 4 billion check-ins on Foursquare, we love exploring new ways to visualize all the places people go around the world, and the connections they’re making between them. Now, you can re-live each and everyone of your check-ins, and have your own beautiful visualization to share with the new Foursquare Time Machine. Zoom through time and space as you visualize all your check-ins Discover all the places you should head to next Save and share pretty infographics of all your stats Ready to enter the Foursquare Time Machine? Click here. -
Nine kings. One cone. Whose banner will you take up? #GameOfCones starts today!
7 Jun 2013 | 9:45 amAs the sun rises in the east, we march into battle. Only one House may prevail in the fight for the Iron Cone. The time has come to choose sides, check in like a maniac, and eat lots (and lots) of ice cream. Starting today until June 21, recruit your friends and check in as many times as possible at your favorite ice cream shop in NYC or SF to help them win the Iron Cone! (Don’t forget to include the #GameOfCones hashtag.) Check back at gameofcones.foursquare.com throughout the competition to see who’s pulling ahead. Excitement is already churning, from the East to the… -
Game of Thrones got you stressin? Bury your anxiety in ice cream. #GameOfCones
4 Jun 2013 | 10:54 amSummer is coming — which means only one thing: ice cream. Lucky for you, Foursquare is great at finding the best spots to secure a scoop in your city. To welcome the arrival of warmer days, we’re highlighting the top ice cream spots in NYC and SF. We give you: Game of Cones. Nine kings. One cone. Foursquare is pitting the top local, artisanal ice cream places against each other in two all-out battles for the legendary Iron Cone (inspired by epicness that is HBO’s Game of Thrones). Live in the Big Apple or Bay Area? Support your favorite ice cream shop by checking in as many…
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Gizmodo
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This Awesome Credit Card-Sized iPhone Tripod Blew Me Away
18 Jun 2013 | 8:54 amSometimes the simplest things are the most useful, but rarely something makes me shake my head at how clever and cool it is like the Pocket Tripod 360º has. I keep thinking "why didn't someone do this before" and "what a great idea that I wish I'd thought of." I'm still blown away that the angle is adjustable like that. I like things this small and compact, as I travel constantly. I also have many occasions for an iPhone support of this type to watch videos on, particularly on planes. Just yesterday, in a restaurant, I saw a 4-year old watching a movie on a propped up… -
This Could Maybe Possibly Be the Next iPhone's Screen and Guts
18 Jun 2013 | 2:35 amIt’s that time of the year again, where Apple’s next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called. If real, what can we really tell from the guts? Well, there’s not much changed from the internals of the iPhone 5, which isn’t exactly a surprise. The screen is around about 4-inches, and the logic board and processor slot are almost identical to the iPhone 5′s. Could this mean that what… -
Instapuzzle: Your Friends' Boring Instagrams Are Better as Puzzles
17 Jun 2013 | 3:00 pmYour endless stream of photos on Instagram is fun—for a while. But there's only so many times you can see a sepia-toned sunset before even the mere thought starts to induce nausea. Instapuzzle for iOS, though, puts a fun new twist on how you interact with your friends' filtered pics. What does it do? Lets you choose a variety of types of Instagram photos—be they yours, your friends', the current "featured tag," or ones you've liked. Once you've picked a photo, choose a difficultly level and watch as the picture gets split and scattered into (depending on your friends' photos)… -
Here's a Look at One of the iPhone's New Game Controllers
16 Jun 2013 | 8:00 amWith Steve Jobs no longer around to tell us these things aren't elegant enough for his device, it appears we'll finally get a proper gamepad for the iOS this year. This will be one of them, made by Logitech. Can't tell you who gave it to us or where it was seen, but we can vouch for this image's authenticity. The controller is large enough to fit an iPhone 5. When iOS 7 introduces third-party controller support in the fall we'll see this thing, plus a bunch of others, probably. Apple evidently won't be making its own. To contact the author of this post, write to owen@kotaku.com or find him on… -
iPhone Apps of the Week: Office 365, Skymotion, and More
14 Jun 2013 | 3:00 pmIt was a huge week for Apple—especially anything software related. While we'll have to wait and see how the fruits of WWDC's labor turn out, there's plenty of other app makers out there still churning away. And as you can see in this week's set of apps, they've got some good stuff. SkyMotion: Weather apps are a dime a dozen, but accurate weather apps are a little more rare. For most of them, you'd be better off tossing a coin to try to figure out if it's actually going to rain or not. And that's where SkyMotion shines—down to the minute. [Free] MTV: MTV has had something resembling an iOS…
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Influential Marketing
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15 Big Brand Lessons From The 2013 Corporate Social Media Summit
13 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pmThere are all kinds of ways to judge the quality of a conference. Some people look at the venue, or the number of attendees. Other look at the list of speakers, or the keynote presenters. Across the dozens of events I attend every year, I have seen or used almost all of these metrics myself. But yesterday I discovered a new metric while networking with speakers and attendees of the Corporate Social Media Summit. People brought their bosses. Some speakers from last year invited their bosses to come and speak this year. Others brought their peers or bosses to attend. Every annual conference… -
How To Get Better At Networking: 7 Questions With Porter Gale
6 Jun 2013 | 9:03 amRecently I had the chance to sit down with Porter Gale and pick her brain about some smart tips that can help anyone get better at networking. Her new book Your Network Is Your Net Worth features a cover quote from Sir Richard Branson. As if that weren’t impressive enough, she is the former CMO of Virgin America and someone who I’ve crossed paths with a few times at events over the past few years. As you’ll see in the interview below, she’s also one of those people who happens to be gifted at making connections and building an amazingly connected and powerful… -
What An 80s Cult Hit Can Teach You About Curation …
4 Jun 2013 | 2:42 pmIn the 1987 cult hit film Mannequin, a chronically unemployed artist landed a job decorating a department storefront window after saving the owner’s life. His partner is a mannequin who comes life at night – and together they create storefront window displays that get people stopping in the streets. It’s a tale of fantasy, but what if there was a way for your brand to create the same sort of irresistable display, no matter what industry you happen to be in? Content curation is a hot topic these days, as marketing teams everywhere are starting to put more time and effort into… -
Brand Reputation And Why All PR Actually Is Good PR (Unless You’re Already Famous)
28 May 2013 | 10:18 amLots of people who don’t work in public relations will tell you that “all PR is good PR.” In other words, if people are talking about you – it doesn’t matter what they are saying. Then there are those who are in the profession who will usually tell you the exact opposite … that PR can be positive or negative and you need to focus on improving your reputation above all else. Who is right? The problem is, they both are … in the right situation. The Challenge of Obscurity If you are trying to launch an unknown brand, you have the challenge of obscurity. -
How Do Big Brands Answer 16 Essential Social Media Questions?
22 May 2013 | 8:26 amIn just a few weeks, it will be time once again for one of my favourite marketing events of the year. No, it’s not the party-filled serendipity fest of SXSW, or the Las Vegas geek-pride gathering at CES. The event I’m talking about is all business … and that’s why it’s one of my top events all year. On June 12 and 13th in New York, The Corporate Social Media Summit will bring together several hundred corporate brand marketers to talk about a single broad topic: the business value of social media for large brands. It is this singular focus that led me two years…
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Innovation Management
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The Case of Vestas Wind Systems and Peter Drucker’s Five Deadly Sins of Business
18 Jun 2013 | 3:15 pmThe Nordic countries have a high number of start-up companies but are struggling with scaling their entrepreneurs, start-ups and innovations to global large-scale operations and companies. Yet, one Nordic company namely Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems managed to become world-beater within the global wind turbine industry. But but after 2008 Vestas has experienced a near death experience and is struggling for survival. Vestas’ story holds important lessons for other Nordic companies, not only within the renewable energy industry. It will here be argued that had Vestas paid more attention to… -
Making the Right Idea Investment Choices- Idea Evaluation at Scale
16 Jun 2013 | 10:36 pmHYPE Innovation is producing a series of five articles to help innovation practitioners and those new to collaborative enterprise innovation, understand how to build a successful and sustainable program. Our previous articles of this series have covered topics such as the benefits of software platforms in enterprise innovation, internal communications, increasing engagement and driving collaboration. In this article we share insights on evaluating large numbers of ideas generated as part of enterprise programs. -
Measuring Open Innovation – 3 Key Principles to Improve Your Innovation Measurement Practices– Part 1
13 Jun 2013 | 10:52 pmThanks to loads of compelling research studies and best practice cases in open innovation (OI) carried out over the last decade, several companies nowadays begin to embrace and partially apply the new principles and methods OI offers. However, when managing open innovation at the project level, even experienced managers still go blank at the question: how to assess, control, and measure the performance of these activities? In this series of articles, we will address the above issue by discussing a general framework for an open innovation performance measurement system (Part 1). Given this… -
How to Create a Culture of Sustainable Engagement in Enterprise Innovation
12 Jun 2013 | 11:28 pmMany organizations are recognizing the power of involving much larger and diverse groups in enterprise innovation. Some company cultures react well to the initiative, others are much more cautious. Building a sustainable culture where everyone’s happy to share ideas and contribute to company challenges can be tough for innovation professionals. On June 11th we explored how to create engagement from every corner of the enterprise to help your organization reach its innovation potential. -
White Space Mapping – Seeing the Future Beyond the Core
12 Jun 2013 | 3:46 pmIn the world of hyper-innovation every company needs to address the unknown. Idris Mootee of Idea Couture takes a look at white space mapping, a tool for overcoming your fears.
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iDownloadBlog.com
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Readdle’s premium Calendars+ app goes free for 48 hours
19 Jun 2013 | 11:12 amEagle-eyed readers will remember Readdle back in March released a free version of its awesome Calendars+ application on the App Store. Naturally, the free download omits several major features present in the more advanced paid version. For example, multiple event reminders, recurring appointments, event invitations and a few other biggies meant for power users remain the exclusive realm of the paid Calendars+ app. If you wanted to take the plunge but were put off by the app’s high asking price of seven bucks, good news: Readdle has decided to drop the premium Calendars+ app to zero… -
Apple’s IP chief leaves for patent troll Technicolor
19 Jun 2013 | 10:28 amAfter sparking its long-running patent war with Samsung, Apple’s intellectual property chief has left to head a similar job at a French media company. Boris Teksler, who in 2012 testified Samsung was copying iPhone technology, left his job of four years Wednesday. Teksler had no immediate comment on why he left to become president of the Technology Group for Technicolor, a media and entertainment company based in France. Technicolor’s CEO said the former Apple IP chief was well-suited to the firm’s plans for expanding use of patents…(...)Read the rest of Apple’s… -
Feedly opens RSS web app to everyone ahead of Google Reader shutdown
19 Jun 2013 | 9:45 amFollowing Google’s disappointing announcement that its Reader service will be retired on July 1, after running for eight straight years, Feedly back in May announced work had started on a clone of Google’s RSS API to help user transition from Google Reader to Feedly. Today, the startup shed more light on the subject by announcing a new Application Programming Interface (API) along with a lineup of first third-party apps that will leverage the Feedly Cloud platform. In addition, they’ve opened the Feedly RSS web app to everyone…(...)Read the rest of Feedly opens RSS web app… -
Default iOS hotspot passwords can be cracked in under a minute
19 Jun 2013 | 9:15 amYou may want to reconsider using a default password iOS provides for hotspot functionality as researchers at a German university warn of the weaknesses that let attackers crack any default iOS hotspot password in under a minute. Although Windows Phone uses even weaker passwords and some Android vendors weaken their device’s security by modifying the Wi-Fi-related components, Apple’s problem is that iOS generates “random” hotspot passwords using a dictionary of only 1,842 different entries…(...)Read the rest of Default iOS hotspot passwords can be cracked in… -
In a blow to Microsoft, Apple wins $30M LA school iPad contract
19 Jun 2013 | 8:15 amApple again is flexing its muscle in classrooms. Every student in the Los Angeles Unified School District will receive an iPad, a contract worth $30 million. Apple has received the nod from the nation’s second-largest school district as students and teachers overruled Microsoft, which argued its tablets better prepared school kids for the workplace. In a unanimous vote, the LA school district board approved the contract to pay $678 per Apple tablet, one member telling The Los Angeles Times newspaper that the deal is “as big as they come.” The contract is just the latest…
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Jessica Gottlieb A Los Angeles Mom
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I’m Completely Unable to Keep My Commitments
18 Jun 2013 | 4:01 pmI just don’t have enough hours in the day. Jane is now a seasoned CIT with exactly one day of work under her belt. When I picked her up from camp yesterday at three she plopped into the passenger seat and started talking. At 4.30 she stopped talking. It was abrupt, she was finished. She had observed that five year olds don’t have filters and they tell you the truth. They also tell the truth when playing things like Fireball. They admit to being out when the ball grazes them. She thinks that kindergarten will cure them of their honesty in both good and bad ways. Five year olds are… -
All These Relationships
17 Jun 2013 | 2:16 pmSunday morning Mr. G left the house at 5.30am to go to work. Yes, it was Father’s Day. Yes, it was Sunday. Yes, he went to work. A better wife would have woken up early with him and made him some coffee and eggs but that’s just not who I am and mercifully it’s not what he wants. When I woke up at 8am there was a text from him saying, “You’ll never believe who is here. Call me right away.” My husband’s script supervisor was the woman who introduced us to each other in 1995. She had been one of my closest friends since I was 17 years old and we sort of… -
Zorbit’s Math (not a typo) at E3
16 Jun 2013 | 9:48 pmIf you ever want to feel like the mommiest mom blogger in the world get yourself a pass to E3 and behold long lines of (young) adult men waiting for the chance to play a video game. When I say long I mean LONG. Like remember when people used to wait in line for movies or concert tickets? Like that. It was crazy. There were niche sections at E3 and, of course, Nintendo skewed a little more feminine and less warlike. There was also a video game museum which is not exactly filled ancient relics but well it has the stuff my childhood was made of. Okay so Beazerk wasn’t exactly a learning… -
I Brought Two Kids and A Red Soul! to Florida
14 Jun 2013 | 8:20 pmA few months ago I took Alexander and a friend to Amelia Island. I’d been there on a press trip a few months before and knew that it was the perfect vacation for my boy but not for my daughter. Since Jane was on a class trip overseas and Mr. G would be working I decided to take Alexander and a friend to the resort. The best part of being a car reviewer is that you can sometimes review a car on vacation so when I told the folks at Kia that I’d be in Florida they said they had a Soul! there. Apparently the Soul! was meant to be ours, just check the plates. I’m sure… -
Transactional Relationships and Social Media
13 Jun 2013 | 9:34 amWhen I worked in sales I called on insurance brokers to use the shop that I was representing. I’d make phone calls, I’d stop into offices and I’d have the occasional lunch, usually with an office manager. If they were older (I was 22-24 at the time) like 30 or more they’d treat the relationship pragmatically. I had something to sell and they had clients to please. It was easy. When the women were younger they would see me as their friend. I never really felt like their friend but here and there I’d meet them for drinks here and there. I’d probably have…
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Content Marketing Institute
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Find the Heart of Your Brand Storytelling with These 6 Questions
19 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amWhat’s the first thing you do when meeting someone new? You ask them questions to unveil their story: Where are you from? What kind of work do you do? Do you have children? Do you come here often? Questioning a stranger is more than a polite way to pass time — it’s the core of trying to connect. Stories make life interesting and give people a way to connect. People crave them, which creates a big opportunity for brand storytelling. Unfortunately, a lot of companies don’t think of themselves as a brand, let alone consider whether they have a story to tell. But the problem… -
4 Reasons Content Creators Should Celebrate Google Penguin 2.0
18 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amWhen Matt Cutts, head of the Webspam team at Google, announced the launch of Penguin 2.0 last month, he directed people to a video that explained the upcoming goals of his team, what actions to avoid, and what actions Google wants to reward. The video appeared to be a preemptive attempt to address questions post-launch. This post will attempt to analyze and translate Google’s post-launch comments and explain how they impact content creators. SEO analysis & translation #1 If you’re doing high quality content when you’re doing SEO, then this [Penguin 2.0] shouldn’t… -
34 Essential Research Reports for More Effective Content Marketing
17 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amAs a content marketer, you’re likely seeking reputable research reports and white papers to inform several of your processes, such as: Planning your upcoming strategies Validating the directions you’re taking Making the business case for content in your organization At CMI, we’re pretty passionate about research, too. In fact, we conduct original research every year to help set budgets and benchmarks for your effective content marketing efforts. But, we also like to keep tabs on what others are saying about content marketing, so we can make sure we are keeping up with the… -
Video Content Channels: Which Should You Use?
16 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amCMI video on Vimeo Have a sneaking suspicion that you’re missing out on a world of video opportunity? You may be right. Limiting your brand to YouTube without combing through the other available options may curb your video content marketing potential. A quickly evolving marketplace means frequent stops to reevaluate your online video strategy. To get some perspective on video distribution channels, I spoke with some video experts, including Eric Leslie, President of OnScene Productions and the man behind the lens at events like Content Marketing World. Eric helped me assemble a… -
Create Content Perfection With These 5 Essential Ingredients
15 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amSerial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis often talks about the qualities that, in his opinion, describe the perfect content product: real-time, fact-driven, visual, efficient, and curated. Let’s review: Real-time: Does your content take advantage of current trends and relevant news stories? Oreo created a memorable brand moment with its spontaneous — and perfectly-timed — delivery of the tweet, “You Can Still Dunk in the Dark,” during an unexpected blackout in the middle of Super Bowl XLVII. The image was retweeted more than 10,000 times and received free press from nearly…
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Lifehacker
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CameraRocket Provides Human-Readable Camera Comparisons
19 Jun 2013 | 10:30 amEven professional photographers can find camera shopping a little overwhelming. CameraRocket simplifies the process with handy comparison sheets.Read more... -
Deadspin Hundreds Of Heat Fans Leave Game 6 Early; A Nation Laughs | Gizmodo A Disturbed John McAfee
19 Jun 2013 | 10:01 amDeadspin Hundreds Of Heat Fans Leave Game 6 Early; A Nation Laughs | Gizmodo A Disturbed John McAfee Teaches You to Uninstall His Software (NSFW) | Jalopnik The Electric-Converted 1963 'Zelectric' VW Beetle Is A Charming EV | io9 Pixar's latest short will make you believe your whole city is aliveRead more... -
When Are eBay and Craigslist Worth It (and When Should I Stay Away)?
19 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amDear Lifehacker,I know sites like eBay and Craigslist are great for finding deals, but I imagine I shouldn't use them for everything. Which items are best bought used, and which ones are more trouble than they're worth?Read more... -
Don't Give Stores Your ZIP Code Unless You Want Their Junk Mail
19 Jun 2013 | 9:30 amWhen retailers ask you for your ZIP code at checkout, it seems innocuous: Maybe they're just trying to see where customers are coming from. Forbes reveals, however, that the five-digit number can actually get your personal information (including address and phone number) added to consumer marketing databases.Read more... -
Dolphin Browser Updates with a New Interface, Is Faster Than Ever
19 Jun 2013 | 9:00 amAndroid: Dolphin Browser, our favorite browser for Android, just updated with a completely overhauled layout, quick-access buttons in the bottom corner, a new full-screen mode, more built-in mini-apps, and more. Best of all, it's even faster now than it was before.Read more...
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Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
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Entrepreneurial Tips – How to Maintain a Positive Attitude
18 Jun 2013 | 5:27 amBy Ronald Alexander As entrepreneurs, we put work just above everything else. Unfortunately, sometimes when we are working toward something, we forget to maintain a positive attitude, which can lead to additional stress and an unhappy all-around life. The 10 tips listed below will help you to stay positive while at the same time driving your business in the right direction. 1. Work with people that you like It’s easy to be unhappy in a business where you are surrounded by negative people all day. This is why it is vital that you hire and work with people who have a positive attitude and… -
How to Drive Traffic to Your Website For Free
17 Jun 2013 | 10:47 amBy Michelle Rebecca Starting a website is easy; driving traffic can be a little more difficult for many that are just getting started doing business online. There are many people out there that will offer plenty of ways to advertise a website, however many of these options can cost a pretty penny over time. In addition to the initial website costs, many businesses can be inundated with online marketing fees. Finding ways to drive traffic with grassroot techniques that are free is an excellent option for those on a tight budget. Search Engine Optimization Tips There are entire books and even… -
Make your yes count by saying no
16 Jun 2013 | 1:00 amSteve Jobs has a quote about focus being not the ability to say “yes,” but is instead the discernment and power to say “no” to everything else that takes you off your course. This is a slight shift in the interpretation of focus, but it makes a huge difference in the way leaders allocate their time and choices if they wish to accomplish their goals. “Learn to say ‘no.’ It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.” ~ Charles H. Spurgeon Take a quick inventory of the time you spend each week doing something for someone else. While… -
Tips for Getting More Facebook Shares
14 Jun 2013 | 5:11 amBy Charles Mburugu Everyone would want to have their Facebook posts shared by as many people as possible. A share is somewhat like a vote of confidence, showing that someone values your content enough to share it with others. Therefore, getting many shares enhances your credibility and exposes your Facebook profile or page to a wider audience. Here are some guidelines which will help you increase your Facebook shares. 1. Post at the right time When you post on Facebook is as important as what you post. Therefore, you need to take time to study the Facebook habits of your audience. In most… -
Simple Sentiment Analysis for Small Business
13 Jun 2013 | 5:38 amStop reading this post right now if you’re rolling in cash, have a team of more than 10 people involved in your marketing efforts, or if your social media headquarters looks anything like this: OK, now that those lucky folks are gone, let’s talk reality for most of us. Are you relying solely on Google Alerts to find out what your customers are talking about? Maybe you took it one step further and set up a Hootsuite column to track Twitter mentions. What are you doing with that information as it accumulates? Welcome to the club. But we can all take it up several notches this week, by…
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MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - iOS Blog
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Feedly Launches New Cloud Platform to Replace Google Reader Ahead of July Shutdown
19 Jun 2013 | 9:48 amGoogle Reader is set to shut down on July 1, and while several companies have stepped in to fill the void, Feedly has been one of the most successful replacements with more than 12 million users, up from four million before Google announced the end of Google Reader. Feedly has transitioned from a simple RSS application to an RSS platform with the launch of a new web interface and a cloud platform that supports multiple third-party applications. Feedly Cloud supports one-click migration from Google Reader, which should make it easy for users to switch over without a hassle, and Feedly also… -
Apple Planning LinkedIn Integration for iOS 7
18 Jun 2013 | 4:31 pmApple appears to be building LinkedIn integration into iOS 7, though the feature is not active in the beta of iOS 7 that was released to developers last week. It is said to look similar to the social network integration that iOS currently sports for Facebook and Twitter. Apple supposedly included Facebook integration in an early build of iOS 5, but it didn't make it into the final build because of failed negotiations between the two companies. Facebook integration was built into iOS 6. 9to5Mac, which originally reported the story, says iOS 7 users will be able to post content directly to… -
Facebook for iOS Adds Status Update Icons, New Sharing Controls
18 Jun 2013 | 1:51 pmFacebook has updated its iOS app to version 6.2, adding mobile support for status update icons. The icons, which were originally introduced to the desktop edition of Facebook in April, allow users to add details about their actions to status updates. The icons link to relevant Facebook pages and give details on what a user is feeling, watching, reading, listening to, drinking, eating, or playing. Icons join other recently introduced Facebook features including Chat Heads and Stickers, which are emoji-style images that can be sent to friends. Facebook's newest update also includes quick access… -
'Bike Baron' Named Starbucks App of the Week, Available for Free
18 Jun 2013 | 1:30 pmMountain Sheep's Bike Baron has been chosen as the Starbucks App of the Week, making it available for free for the first time ever for customers who have downloaded the Starbucks app. Bike Baron is a an extreme biking game where the objective is to navigate through dangerous terrain and deadly obstacles. Our sister site TouchArcade has a review of the gameplay:Bike Baron successfully merges an excellent interface with charming art and sound design. Those things pull you in, and then the game tries to break you. If you’re looking for a casual biking experience where you’ll spend a lot of… -
'Paper' Developers Get $15 Million in Funding For Future Apps and Hardware
18 Jun 2013 | 12:09 pmFiftyThree, the company that created popular iPad sketching app Paper, today announced that it received $15 million in funding for future projects, which will focus on both collaboration and physical creation.We are especially focused on two areas: TRUE COLLABORATION—Social media has changed the way we communicate, but real collaboration has been left behind. Still nothing has surpassed the simple act of sitting down in a room with a group of motivated people. We believe a breakthrough around collaboration will revolutionize the creative process. How we work together. How we discover…
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MAKE
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OpenSkan: An Open Source Full Body 3D Scanner
19 Jun 2013 | 9:30 amHeatSync Labs' Moheeb Zara built this full body scanner with a Kinect that raises and lowers on a gantry while a turntable rotates the subjectRead the full article on MAKE -
Arduino Powered Poker Table
19 Jun 2013 | 8:27 amGreat first attempt at a poker table with an Arduino brain and LED lighting.Read the full article on MAKE -
Bringing a Classic Marklin Z-Scale Model Railroad to Life With Arduino
19 Jun 2013 | 6:00 am"I have this train I bought in Germany," said Lynn, who approached me at a train show, "and I'm looking for someone to build a railroad for me."Read the full article on MAKE -
Call for Manufacturers: 3D Printers and 3D Scanners
19 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amGot a favorite desktop 3D printing or scanning appliance? We want to hear about it! Read the full article on MAKE -
It’s News: Maker Movement Currently Alive and Well in Asia
18 Jun 2013 | 10:02 pmHong Kong Mini Maker Faire organizers Mike Li and Andy Kong spotlighted today in the South China Morning Post, along with makers from HackJam and Dim Sum Labs.Read the full article on MAKE
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MarketingProfs How-To Articles
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Brand Reputation Management: Your Seven-Point Game Plan
19 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amDespite its current popularity, brand reputation management is not a new concept, but today it's about actively managing the references, conversations, and feedback that typically occur online. Here are seven key areas you should address. Read the full article at MarketingProfs -
More Data Does Not Equal Better Insights
19 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amWe're drowning in data. We generate it from our own activity or research; we collect and capture tons more from external sources. But action doesn't always follow collection. And more data does not always translate into better insights. Read the full article at MarketingProfs -
How Running a Small Business Has Changed [Infographic]
19 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amSome 59% of decision-makers at small businesses say it’s harder to run a business today than it was five years ago, and more than half cite the economy as a major challenge. Decision-makers also said marketing, payroll, and the importance of being local have changed significantly for small businesses. Read the full article at MarketingProfs -
Seven Types of Social Media Fans and How to Engage With Them [Infographic]
18 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amNot all the fans on your social media networks interact the same way with your business. You need to draw out some and cool off others.To highlight the most common types of fans and how to engage with them, ReachLocal created this infographic. Read the full article at MarketingProfs -
Is Your Content in Great Shape? Give It a Workout
18 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amAs summer approaches, some of us will hit the gym in hopes of being swimsuit-ready. The more we exercise, the easier it becomes. That's because we're building up our endurance and creating a habit. Content marketing is the same way. When we stretch our creative muscles and get into the ... Read the full article at MarketingProfs
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Mashable
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Cher Makes Triumphant Return to Live Stage on 'The Voice'
19 Jun 2013 | 11:38 amLadies and gentlemen, if we could please have your attention, Cher has something important she'd like to share: She's still got it. HMMMM…. Seems There’s MORE BUZZ,about the way I Looked,Than the way I Performed !!YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIVE STILL GOT IT !!!!!! — Cher (@cher) June 19, 2013 The 67-year-old pop icon last night showed viewers and attendees of The Voice that age is but a number, flaunting her first appearance on the live stage in a decade. For the NBC show's season four finale, Cher and an ensemble of back-up dancers performed "Woman's World," the first single… -
We Asked Sally Ride All the Wrong Questions
19 Jun 2013 | 11:18 amWhen I set out to find the most profound things Sally Ride said throughout her career, I realized we missed a huge opportunity as journalists. Mush together the thousands of words and hours of video footage, and you'll get one really long, repetitive interview. That's because we often asked her the same questions: What's it like to be the only woman in a boys club? What advice can you give women? How can we get more girls to love science? Perhaps that's because we couldn't move past Sally the icon and get to know Sally the person. We fixated on the fact that a woman was going to space —… -
'XCOM' for iPad: Same Great Game Is Now Travel Size
19 Jun 2013 | 11:07 amWhen Firaxis Games announced in March that turn-based strategy giant XCOM: Enemy Unknown was coming to iPad, it was unclear how it would pack a huge, immersive console and PC title into an app Thankfully, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, which launches at midnight Thursday, doesn't skimp on what's necessary: great gameplay. (We rated it one of the best games of 2012.) While there might have been some visual compromises to scale the game down to just 3.2 gigs, which is still a lot on a tablet, the functionality hasn't been touched. SEE ALSO: 'Civilization' Creators Take On Their First Mobile Game For the… -
Facebook Insights Gets a Makeover
19 Jun 2013 | 11:01 amFacebook Page owners, rejoice: Facebook Insights, the social network's analytics dashboard for public Pages, is getting a makeover. A small, random group of beta testers will get access to the new desktop design on Wednesday, with a broader rollout to follow at an unspecified date. The new design is simpler, cleaner and more intelligible. Stats that were previously rolled in together (i.e., "People Talking About This") have been broken down into separate charts that allow Page owners to individually measure the reach and engagement (likes, comments, clicks and shares) of individual posts. -
10 Reasons Getting Sick in the Summer Sucks
19 Jun 2013 | 10:43 amAs a recent college graduate, I speak for 90% of teens and young adults when I say, "Thank goodness, it's summertime!" The summer should be a time of celebration. Adults, you've survived the snowstorms, blizzards and treacherous commutes to work. College students and high schoolers, your final exams have ended and now you can enjoy the 80-degree-plus weather as the beach is calling your name. SEE ALSO: 22 Books for Your Ultimate Summer Reading List However, according to dietitian Tessa Prior-Pullins, the summer is "a time where your immune system can be most vulnerable, if you aren't…
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Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
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Funny SEO emails, part 6
18 Jun 2013 | 3:02 pmFolks at Google get cold-call emails out of the blue just like everybody else. Here’s an email that a colleague of mine got recently: I was on your website www.google.com and wanted to shoot you a quick note. I think I can make a few changes (aesthetically and/or SEO – wise) to make your site convert more visitors into leads and to get it placed higher in the organic search results, for a few of the select terms. This is NOT like one of those foreign emails you probably get in your inbox every day. Just to be upfront I have 3 agents that work with me for development /SEO. I would… -
Penguin 2.0 rolled out today
22 May 2013 | 5:34 pmWe started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice. The change has also finished rolling out for other languages world-wide. The scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g. languages with more webspam will see more impact. This is the fourth Penguin-related launch Google has done, but because this is an updated algorithm (not just a data refresh), we’ve been referring to this change as Penguin 2.0 internally. -
What to expect in SEO in the coming months
13 May 2013 | 9:17 amWe just recently taped a new round of webmaster videos, and I thought this video deserved a full-fledged blog post. This is my rough estimate (as of early May 2013) of what search engine optimizers (SEOs) and webmasters should expect in the next few months: Bear in mind that this is a very rough estimate, because priorities, projects, and timing can change based on a lot of different factors. But I hope this gives folks a ballpark idea of what to expect in the coming months as far as what my team is working on. -
Email backlog
12 May 2013 | 11:59 pmThis is a “hairball” post you can ignore. However, this post does trace my thinking about how to scale webmaster communication. Part of me wants to start answering questions I get via email by stripping out the identifying information and then replying with a blog post. Instead of one person getting a single reply, everybody could see what the answer is. I spent most of the past week tackling my horrendous email backlog. At the start of the weekend, I was just touching 500 unread emails. I got it down to 218 unread emails and 264 total emails in my inbox. Of course, the ones that… -
The dangers of productivity porn
12 May 2013 | 11:58 pmA quick “hairball” post about how sometimes it’s better to just go with the flow. I like how xkcd made this point with a chart of whether it’s worth the time to fix something that’s bugging you. I have a friend who is mechanical engineer. A few years ago he took me for a tour of his workplace that ended in his office. As I looked at his workstation, something leapt out at me. My friend had never changed his background screen. Whatever the computer came with by default, that’s what he was using. With this simple act of indifference, my friend taught me an…
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Matt Mullenweg
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Bookend Gifts
17 Jun 2013 | 8:09 amThe news came out this weekend on Mercury News and the Chronicle, so it’s worth addressing here: The Bay Lights, a public art project that uses San Francisco’s Bay Bridge as its canvas, is a project I’ve supported since I first heard of it and the idea captured my imagination. I was happy to make the first monetary donation when the project got started, and as of last week I was able to make a closing bookend donation for the remaining amount they needed, a bit above $1.5M. It was an honor to chip in along with the thousands of other supporters who have already donated to… -
A Contrarian Futurist
30 May 2013 | 2:47 pmDavid Cowan writes as A Contrarian Futurist, with thoughts on wearable computing and cyber warfare. -
WP Cakes
28 May 2013 | 9:19 pmWP Daily has a post that is interesting both for the dozens of pictures of WordPress cakes and confections from yesterday as well as a good roundup of posts about the 10th anniversary. -
Dear WordPress,
27 May 2013 | 9:43 amHas it really been 10 years? It seems just yesterday we were playing around on my blog, and the blogs of a few high school friends. Two of those friends are married, one isn’t anymore, two are still figuring things out, and one has passed away. You were cute before you became beautiful. Wearing black and white, afraid of color, trying to be so unassuming. I know you got jealous when I wore those Blogger t-shirts. They were the cool kids at SxSW and I thought maybe you could grow up to be like them. You wouldn’t have shirts of your own for a few more years. We didn’t know… -
Democratizing the Web
25 May 2013 | 5:16 pmMichelle Atagana from Memeburn posted an interview we did when I was in South Africa: Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web.
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AgencySpy
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Rooster, Microsoft Board Up Together
19 Jun 2013 | 7:04 amBefore I wrote this, my editor jokingly told me I’d been typecast as the Rooster Guy, but I won’t complain. Jason Statham has been typecast as the Rooster Guy of the film industry, and he’s probably worth $50 million. We’ve covered a few Rooster side projects recently, and now they’re back in the news, teaming with Microsoft for a co-ideation Windows 8 skateboarding app. The project allows users to build a digital Vans skate park – would you expect anything else from Rooster? – while on Skype calls. The callers can then watch a Vans Pro skater board… -
Italian Agency Launches Telepathy Service
19 Jun 2013 | 5:30 amWith a fresh site and video spot, an Italian agency is now offering mind-to-mind advertising. As io9 reports, via the agency’s release: “Telepathy Advertising is a full service agency which works on telepathic scripts and its emission converting concepts into visual, verbal, tactile and sensorial stimulus with a location-aware target segmentation.” They employ a team of five “telepathies,” each gifted in a different realm of communication. Together, they can translate an advertising campaign on all sensory levels, delivering the ultimate multimedia message. Though the project is… -
Powley Assumes Global Prez Role at iCrossing
19 Jun 2013 | 4:34 amWell, after some cuts here and a shuttering there, we finally have some positive news to report in 2013 about iCrossing, mainly that the Hearst-owned digital agency has promoted six-year vet Brian Powley to global president. Powley, who initially joined iCrossing in 2007 to manage the agency’s San Francisco office before taking on the role of chief client officer and subsequently president of its North American operations. Powley takes over for president/CEO Don Scales, who’s leaving iCrossing after seven years at the helm. Prior to his joining iCrossing, which currently counts 18… -
Carrot Creative Makes Moving Dramatic with ‘Unpakt Network’
19 Jun 2013 | 3:56 amThis parody reality show trend is tiresome, especially because reality shows are already a parody of life. Earlier this month, PBS invented fake reality shows like “Knitting Wars” and advertised them coupled with their own message: “The fact that you thought this was real says a lot about the state of TV. Support Quality Programming.” Now, Brooklyn-based agency/organic farming advocate Carrot Creative has come up with a series of new shows on the “Unpakt Network,” all centered on moving house. On “America’s Next Top Mover,” contestants struggle with boxes as… -
Wednesday Morning Stir
19 Jun 2013 | 3:00 am-If you have about nine minutes to spare, here are your Cannes, Day 2 highlights, which include OMD Australia (Sydney) and O&M Amsterdam picking up Media Agency of the Year and Media Grand Prix awards, respectively. link -In cased you missed it at Cannes, Creativeland Asia launched a new “creative experiential learning program” called “Soultripin,” which begins in the motherland (above). link -WPP Digital unit Possible and Google-owned Wildfire have formed a strategic alliance for a global rollout of the latter’s Social Marketing Suite for Enterprises. -Sid…
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Mind Hacks
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Is social psychology really in crisis?
18 Jun 2013 | 7:13 amMy latest ‘behind the headlines’ column for The Conversation. Probably all old news for you wised-up mindhacks.com readers, but here you go: The headlines Disputed results a fresh blow for social psychology Replication studies: Bad copy The story Controversy is simmering in the world of psychology research over claims that many famous effects reported in the literature aren’t reliable, or may even not exist at all. The latest headlines follow the publication of experiments which failed to replicate a landmark study by Dutch psychologist Ap Dijksterhuis. These experiments are… -
An unrecognised revolution in street drug design
16 Jun 2013 | 4:31 amI’ve got an article in The Observer about the ongoing but little recognised revolution in street drug design being pushed forward by the ‘legal high’ market. Since 2008 we’ve seen the first genuine wave of ‘designer drugs’ that are being produced by science-savvy professional labs that are deliberately producing substances to avoid drug laws. New substances are appearing at a rate of more than one-a-week and some are completely new to science. The article looks at how the clandestine labs are creating these new highs and what this almost impossible to… -
A radio guide to global mental health
16 Jun 2013 | 3:56 amThe BBC World Service is in the midst of an excellent series on global mental health – called The Truth About Mental Health. It is currently half-way through and is remarkably well done, looking at everything from the war in Syria, to the effects of solitary confinement, to treatment in developing countries. The programme also takes a considered look at the important question of whether mental illness is universal or whether it is tightly bound to the culture in which we live. You can get the episode guide and streaming audio from this page but because the BBC is a bit rubbish at the… -
Protect your head – the world is complex
13 Jun 2013 | 10:42 amThe British Medical Journal has a fascinating editorial on the behavioural complexities behind the question of whether cycling helmets prevent head injuries. You would think that testing whether helmets prevent bikers from head injury would be a fairly straightforward affair. Maybe putting a bike helmet on a crash test dummy and throwing rocks at its head. Or counting how many cyclists with head injuries were wearing head protection – but it turns out to be far more complicated. The piece by epidemiologist Ben Goldacre and risk scientist David Spiegelhalter examines why the social and… -
When giving reasons leads to worse decisions
11 Jun 2013 | 1:37 amWe’re taught from childhood how important it is to explain how we feel and to always justify our actions. But does giving reasons always make things clearer, or could it sometimes distract us from our true feelings? One answer came from a study led by psychology professor Timothy Wilson at the University of Virginia, which asked university students to report their feelings, either with or without being asked to provide reasons. What they found revealed just how difficult it can be to reliably discern our feelings when justifying our decisions. Participants were asked to evaluate five…
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Neuromarketing
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German & Japanese Brainfluence
18 Jun 2013 | 6:50 amThe global reach of Brainfluence is getting a boost. Japanese rights have been sold by Wiley, joining the Korean and Simplified Chinese versions in the Asian marketplace. Publication dates for the Japanese and Chinese versions aren’t yet known (at least by me) – if any Neuromarketing readers spots one of these in the wild, please [...] -
Image Influence: Placing Pictures for Maximum Impact
11 Jun 2013 | 5:14 amThere’s an idea from cognitive psychology called cognitive fluency that has been making the rounds in the business world lately. The idea is simple enough: as human beings, we prefer that which is easy for us to understand and process. -
Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
27 May 2013 | 10:34 amBook Review: Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal by Oren Klaff Oren Klaff is an investment banker and deal-maker who, by his own account, has spent more than ten thousand hours developing a “neurofinance” approach to presentations and deal-making. Klaff uses a variety of brain-based techniques to control the [...] -
Brilliant Billboard Traps 230,000 Real Bugs
14 May 2013 | 5:32 amHow do you promote a new outdoor insect spray, Orphea, on a billboard in Milan? This clever effort turned the portion of the corresponding to the “spray” from a pictured can into a giant piece of fly paper. Over a period of days, the sticky trap captured hundreds of thousands of real insects. Watch the [...] -
Neuromarketing Meets Conversion Optimization: Free Webinar
9 May 2013 | 6:20 amNext week, conversion optimization expert Chris Goward and I will be doing a joint webinar: Neuromarketing Meets Conversion Optimization: Brainy Profit Boosters. I was excited to set this up with Chris, who’s the author of You Should Test That. Testing is critical. In nearly every speech I give, I include a quote from ad legend [...]
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Escape From Cubicle Nation
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The more you do it, you’ll get through it
13 Jun 2013 | 10:02 amMy daughter and I had an impromptu “Take your daughter to work day” today. We wanted to record a video for you, with a bit of advice to help your business along. Here goes! (Direct on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/OVKv4nInuMU Enjoy your day! -Pam and Rosie -
Care to join me live for a 3-day class in San Francisco – for free?
11 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amHappy Tuesday! I have been in the throes of writing my new book, which is why you might hear some crickets chirping over here on the blog. It has been a combination of excitement, terror, exhilaration and exhaustion. Because I believe in Full Color, Full Contact Living, it is so worth it, for the satisfaction of knowing I am creating something that has great meaning in my own body of work. I will finish it the first week of July, and then take a really long nap before heading to Portland to speak at the World Domination Summit. After that, I am so excited that I will head to San Francisco to… -
Turn your questions into answers: Interview with Dan Martell
6 Jun 2013 | 10:56 amImagine that you are driving down the road and you get a call from your office that a VC is interested in talking to you about investing in your business, but the only time they have to meet with you is tomorrow at noon. You have never put together a pitch before, and feel slightly panicked. But then you open an app, say “How to make a VC pitch” and immediately get 5 names of experienced VCs. You scan the list, see that one of them is Mark Cuban, and say “call Mark” and in 2 minutes you have him on the phone, coaching you through tomorrow’s presentation (of… -
Announcing … Fantastic lineup of Spring classes from Power Teaching students
20 May 2013 | 11:54 amIn March/April, I ran another small session of my Power Teaching class. Another extremely smart and enthusiastic group joined in intensive study of effective training design and development, and worked on real, live classes that they are launching this Spring and Summer. I love teaching this class for three reasons: It is exceptionally energizing to share my passion for teaching with completely open and eager participants They really worked their hearts out to apply great design to their classes, ensuring a superior learning experience for their students They were extremely generous with each… -
Why writing your book doesn’t have to be scary
25 Apr 2013 | 10:42 amI am delighted to feature a guest post today from my friend and fellow coach, bestselling author Debbie Rieber. Debbie is in the business of helping people get the books in their heads written, sold, and out into the world. As someone who is writing a book now, I know that we authors need all the help we can get! In this post, she helps to disprove some of the myths that keep us stuck and afraid to write. Enjoy! Whether you’re an entrepreneur looking to strengthen your platform or someone with a body of research, a story, or a unique point of view you feel compelled to share, writing a book…
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Holy Kaw!
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Lemur personalities vary from shy to ‘mean as sin’
19 Jun 2013 | 11:38 amThe report that mouse lemurs have distinct personalities doesn’t come as a shock to staff at the Duke University Lemur Center. “Pesto is very chatty. Asparagus gets beat up by the girls. Wasabi is mean as sin, and her favorite flavor is human fingers,” says researcher Sarah Zehr. Anyone who has ever owned a pet [...] -
How fruit flies say no to extra-salty food
19 Jun 2013 | 11:30 amNew research explains how an animal chooses low salt over high salt, and unravels the mechanism for how their gustatory receptor neurons get activated. “Not only does this comment on how salt perception may occur in many animals throughout the animal kingdom,” says Craig Montell, professor of molecular, cellular, and development biology and neuroscience at [...] -
Man, these are some ugly animals
19 Jun 2013 | 11:09 amDiscovery compiles a collection of ugly animals that need saving. Photo credit: Simon Elgood, Flickr -
Photo essay of graduation ceremonies around the world.
19 Jun 2013 | 10:45 amSee the joy as students around the world graduate from their schools. More on education. Photo credit: Rahmatullah Nikzad/Associated Press -
The ends of the road around the world
19 Jun 2013 | 10:15 amAlan Taylor, photo editor maven, compiled a photo essay of the “ends of the road” from Google Map. See his collection of pictures where you can’t go any further. More photography.
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Presentation Zen
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Interview with Patrick Newell from TEDGlobal 2013
18 Jun 2013 | 9:03 pmThe TED organization provides many lessons in 21st-century presentation approaches. I first featured TED Talks on the presentationzen website way back in 2006, just after TED made some of its talks available on line for the first time. I attended my first TED Conference in 2009 in Long Beach and have learned a great deal from my involvement with TED/TEDx over the years. Many people have been inspired and influenced by TED since the organization broadened its reach in 2006. One of those people is Patrick Newell, founder of the Tokyo International School. Patrick is a TEDster and cofounder of… -
TED Talk: 9 ways to live better, longer, happier
24 May 2013 | 10:04 pmThis TED presentation below is one I've pointed to before, but it's worth repeating. The message is important no matter who you are or what kind of work you're engaged in. In this TEDx talk , National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner shares what the world's longest-lived peoples have in common. Buettner condensed the findings into nine easy-to-remember lifestyle habits. The presentation is good in terms of content and delivery; Buettner is an engaging figure. Visually, the presentation would be even better if he ditched that typical PowerPoint template in favor of slides with a… -
No excuse for boring an audience: Advice on giving technical presentations
7 May 2013 | 10:47 pmLong before "death-by-powerpoint" or vertigo-by-prezi, there were bad presentations. Really bad presentations. So don't blame the software. The genesis of painfully dull or muddled presentations predates the computer. No one knows this better than scientists, researchers, and academics, who have long been required to attend numerous conferences each year, conferences which typically feature a keynote speaker and scores of shorter presentations by others in their field. Over the years I've heard from many people with technical backgrounds about what is a good presentation and what is not. I've… -
TED Talk: A story of survival, resilience, and hope
24 Apr 2013 | 12:56 amHyeonseo Lee's 2013 TED Talk describing her escape from North Korea is one of the most compelling and inspiring talks I've seen on the TED stage in quite a while. I'm not saying it's technically the best TED talk ever, but it's certainly one of my personal favorites. I showed the talk a few times here to my students in Japan and they were amazed and inspired by this young woman's experience and her remarkable story. There are storytelling lessons to be learned by examining these kind of true-life personal narratives. In the book Story Craft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction,… -
Should we be suspicious of stories?
12 Apr 2013 | 3:35 amWe are wired for stories. “Evolutionary biologists confirm that 100,000 years of reliance on stories have evolutionarily hardwired a predisposition into human brains to think in story terms,” says research scientist and engineer Kendall Haven in his book Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story. “We are programmed to prefer stories and to think in story structures.” Stories are ubiquitous in our lives. Jean-Paul Sartre said, "A man is always a teller of stories. He lives surrounded by his own stories and those of other people. He sees everything that happens to him…
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Principled Innovation Blog
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Asking different questions: MMCC 2013 edition
3 Jun 2013 | 4:26 pm“Is the association model broken?” “What does ‘member’ mean to you?” “Do we need a new membership model?” “Is membership dead?” These are all interesting questions, and I understand why some people are asking them. Unfortunately, they are not the right questions. Instead of trying to figure out how to extend the life of the existing paradigm, association leaders need to focus their attention on shaping the next one, specifically by building adaptive and resilient, i.e., thrivable, business models that do not depend on membership. To… -
Jeff De Cagna serving as curator for ACE Symposium on July 12
28 Apr 2013 | 8:45 pmJeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, is serving as curator and provocateur for the inaugural Association Chief Executives (ACE) Symposium, to be held on Friday, July 12 at The Gannett Building in McLean, Virginia. The ACE Symposium is open exclusively to association CEOs, and CEO attendees may register their #2 executives to participate with them in the event. The ACE Symposium will feature nine CEO Thought Leaders presenting 15-minute TED style talks organized into three critical conversation themes: the future of membership, the future of new… -
Empathy, new value creation and the stakeholders of the future
8 Apr 2013 | 5:30 amIn early January, I wrote a post on six serious ideas for 2013 that included the concept of SED, which is short for serendipity, empathy and discovery. SED is a term I coined to inspire association leaders to shift their conversations about the future in a more generative direction. Here is what I wrote about SED in that post: In 2013, I want to challenge association leaders to prepare for the vast serendipity that lives all around them, experience genuine empathy and embrace new possibilities of discovery. To fully capitalize on the power of SED, however, leaders must find the courage to be… -
Overcoming the association value gap: part II
2 Apr 2013 | 5:24 amThis post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 28, 2013. You can read Part I here. In Part I of this series earlier this month, I identified the association value gap as an underlying structural problem within membership-centric business models. Put simply, associations are unable to drive profitability solely by delivering on the membership value proposition and must find alternative ways to monetize membership to maintain their existing business models. Unfortunately, since membership-centric business models wrap all value into membership, associations… -
Jeff De Cagna to deliver keynote at CESSE 2013 Annual Meeting
31 Mar 2013 | 8:58 pmJeff De Cagna, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation, has been selected as the opening keynote speaker for the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE) 2013 Annual Meeting. Jeff’s keynote talk, which will take place on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at the Omni Providence Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, will focus on themes and ideas shared in his provocative free e-book, Associations Unorthodox: Six Really Radical Shifts Toward the Future. “For the CESSE 2103 opening keynote, we wanted a speaker who would confront the deep-seated…
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Content Creation vs Content Promotion: Where is the Balance?
18 Jun 2013 | 9:08 amA few days ago we published a post on ProBlogger titled ‘Forget about Marketing: Concentrate on Blogging‘, which led to some interesting discussion on Twitter and in the comments. I love the points author Nicholas Whitmore made in the post but I wanted to give a few thoughts, based on my own experience, on developing great content and promoting your blog. Nicholas wrote some great arguments for focusing your energy on writing great content as the central way of growing your blog. He writes: “When you write and publish awesome content on your blog, good things will come your… -
Don’t Be Lazy: 9 Ways to Blog Smarter and Harder
17 Jun 2013 | 8:37 amThis is a guest contribution from Eric Cummings who writes about art and philosophy for On Violence. I’ve been writing this post for three years. What can I say? I’m lazy. Or I should say, I used to be lazy. That’s not the case anymore. Four years ago, my brother and I started taking our writing career seriously. I now write. A lot. On my days off from work, I regularly put in over ten hour days, just writing, editing and re-writing. I’ve learned how to work, both smarter and harder. You can too. (Finally, an admission: though I wrote down an outline for this post three years… -
Forget about Marketing: Concentrate on Blogging
14 Jun 2013 | 8:24 amThis is a guest contribution by Nicholas Whitmore. The title: What on earth does it mean? Well, recently it seems like a lot of bloggers fancy themselves as marketers. You can’t read a post on a blog without seeing a load of other bloggers commenting at the bottom, with a link back to their own site. Of course other bloggers use black hat SEO tricks and other shady tactics in order to drive traffic to their blog. Each to their own you might say, but at the end of the day life can be much, much easier. If you publish blog content that’s truly awesome, everyone else will market your blog… -
Why Your Blog Posts Are Falling Short of Greatness and What To Do About It
13 Jun 2013 | 9:15 amThis is a guest contribution by Belinda Weaver, marketing copywriter behind The Copy Detective. You’ve finished your latest blog post and it’s pretty good isn’t it, isn’t it? Are you sure? Some bloggers think that coming up with ideas is the hardest part of blogging. Maybe you agree. Personally, I think it’s harder to turn an idea into blogging GOLD. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Writing a really great blog post isn’t simply down to your writing. Sure, you need to use language that will appeal to your reader, and all your verbs need to be the right way up… -
How to Make Your Blogging Dreams Come True
12 Jun 2013 | 8:42 am“ONE DAY I’ll be a full time blogger!” ‘V’ – my wife – must have heard that statement 100 or more times in 2003-2004. Me posing for my first ever press photo in 2003. Out of shot all my neighbours were watching on and wondering why I was videoing a guy taking a photo of me while sitting in my front yard. It would usually be accompanied by a spread sheet and/or chart in which I showed her how the earnings from my blog had grown from $9 per month to $11 per month and me excitedly talking about how if things kept growing like that I’d be full…
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15 Nuggets of Wisdom From 15 Entrepreneurs
16 Jun 2013 | 3:30 pmWhat are the secrets to entrepreneurial success? The best way to discover them is to ask those who have overcome the odds to tell their stories, and that’s what the Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network (OEN) did last week here in Portland, inviting 15 Oregon entrepreneurs to speak at their first OEN Summit. I was honored to be the emcee of the event, which attracted a sell-out crowd of nearly 200 (that’s me doing the kickoff in the pic). We gathered to listen and learn, and we certainly did. A wide breadth of industries and trades were represented, but yet, there were common… -
Why “I” Is The Least Important Word
9 Jun 2013 | 3:30 pmThere’s a pesky pronoun out there that leaders need to be contstantly aware of. It’s a slippery one because it’s so short and sweet. One letter. It’s pesky because of the messages it sends to those who hear it. It could be simple. “It’s about me” Or a mixed message. “Well, it could be about you too, but how could you know, given the use of this particular pronoun” Or, a message with absolutely no ambiguity. “Hey ,it’s ALL about me, and don’t you forget it!” All because of one pronoun. It’s truly the least… -
Can You Pass The More Human Leadership Test?
2 Jun 2013 | 3:30 pm“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person. (This rule never fails).” - Jim Swanson, from Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management A big part of being a more human leader is showing respect – for the people you lead, and for the jobs that they do. It should be a very natural thing to do, BECAUSE it’s such a human thing. There are circumstances that really test this kind of leadership, and the most interesting thing about them is that they occur outside the workplace. That is, they take place in everyday life. You can… -
The Secrets Of Great Leadership (As Told By 8,000 People Who Love Their Jobs)
26 May 2013 | 4:43 pmIn my quest for more human leadership, I’ve discovered a core truth. If you encounter a workplace filled with people who love their jobs, you’ll find a great leader who made that happen. Those kind of environments don’t just pop out of thin air - there needs to be a catalyst. And that catalyst is the leader. So what’s the secret to building such a place, and thus, achieving leadership greatness? Shane J. Lopez of Gallup wanted to find out, and asked 8,000 people who proclaimed they loved their work. He talked about his findings in a recent article in the NY Times. -
10 Keys To Building a Culture Of Accountability
19 May 2013 | 3:30 pmTwo weeks ago I wrote about how leaders needed to be more human to achieve the “success trifecta” – a great company, happy employees, and a fulfilled leader. One of the pillars of the more human philosophy is the establishment of the Culture of Accountability. I touched on it briefly on that previous post – it’s the key to getting to a place where “the need to be good is replaced with a relentless passion to be great”. There are 10 things every leader must do to foster this culture: 1) Roles & responsibilities are clearly (and properly) defined – What are the…
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Ouya Is A Tiny Box Open To Many Game Possibilities
19 Jun 2013 | 9:07 amA few weeks before our Ouya arrived in the mail, my husband was having second thoughts. Like 63,416 others, he’d eagerly parted with his cash (in his case, a cool $225 for the limited edition color and name plate etching), during the throes of Kickstarter hype around the open source Android-based gaming platform. Months later and no still Ouya, he was wondering if he’d made the right choice. He wondered why I, the usually-trusty voice of reason against BioShock Infinite Collector’s Edition pre-orders and Magic: The Gathering rares, hadn’t spoken up. “Now, I kind of wish… -
5 Games That Make Sony And Microsoft's Console War Meaningless
19 Jun 2013 | 6:57 amAfter last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the console war drums are now beginning to beat in a frenzy. Microsoft and Sony have unveiled details of their next-generation video-game consoles, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. Which one should you buy? We have a radical proposal: neither. Gamers can save themselves both money and mental anguish by taking note: The leading current-generation consoles, the Xbox 360 and PS3, are going to stick around for a while, and they're still getting nearly every huge game release for this year and next. How long? Well, consider this: Sony… -
AMD Stiff-ARMs Intel By Offering ARM Server Chips
19 Jun 2013 | 6:32 amAMD is pushing its chips in on its commitment to ARM-based server technology, announcing the new "Seattle" ARM processor for launch in the second half of 2014. The release of an ARM-based processor built specifically for servers, instead of the smartphones and other smaller electronic devices they currently power, marks a significant step in moving away from the power-hungry and heat-generating Intel-based chips that have dominated the server market for decades, as well as a big opportunity for AMD to get out of the shadow of Intel. AMD is not the first manufacturer to commit to the creation… -
Instagram Videos Could Spell A Billion Dollars Worth Of Magic For Facebook
19 Jun 2013 | 6:02 amFacebook is widely expected to announce Thursday a video feature for Instagram, the photo-sharing service it bought for $1 billion last year. Some are speculating that this is a competitive response to Vine, Twitter's clever short-video app. But what if Facebook had a broader purpose in mind—habituating its users to seeing videos? It's An Ad, Ad, Ad World Marketers are eager to buy video ads on Facebook. But users, used to the quiet experience of reading updates and viewing photos from friends, may find them jarring, especially if the ads start playing automatically. Yet Twitter's Vine has… -
An Honest, Law-Abiding Patent Troll?
19 Jun 2013 | 5:04 amGiven the inanity that is our current patent system, it's not surprising that innocent patent holders can look like trolls. Such might well be the case with SightSound Technologies, a subsidiary of General Electric, which has spent years in patent lawsuits with Apple, CDNow, Bertelsmann, Napster and others. As SightSound's CEO Scott Sander argues in a letter to The Wall Street Journal editor, "true innovators [can be] so burdened by the cost of the very patents meant to protect them that they themselves must become an 'assertion' entity." Or, in other words, a patent troll. But when is a…
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AOL Jumps to 3rd Place in Online Video Content Ranking
19 Jun 2013 | 11:00 amAccording to new data from the comScore Video Metrix service, 182 million Americans watched nearly 41 billion online content videos in May 2013. That's up from 181.9 million Americans, who watched 38.8 billion online content videos in April 2013. -
Google’s Project Loon: It's Balloon-Powered Internet Access
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Yahoo Launches Localworks, a Listing Management Tool for Small Business
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Getting Published: The Search Marketer's Guide to PR
19 Jun 2013 | 6:30 amA public relations strategy is a big part of successful search campaigns. Getting your company's brand and employees exposed through media and social channels is incredibly important and can have a profound impact on links, rankings, and traffic. -
Structured Data: Content, Rich Snippets & Authorship vs. Author Rank
19 Jun 2013 | 5:30 amAs we move toward a content-centric approach to marketing, search, and social media, new influence-based metrics become more important. As Google evolves, people and the content they produce are beginning to be prioritized by the search engines.
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Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect
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Quid pro quo (you can't play ping pong by yourself)
19 Jun 2013 | 2:56 amThe irony of "getting in return for giving" is that it doesn't work nearly as well as merely giving. Giving because you care, because you have something to say and because it feels right. No Tat. Bloggers who measure the return on investment of every word, twitterers who view the platform as a self-promotional tool instead of a help-others tool, and those that won't contribute to Wikipedia and other projects because there's no upside... these folks are all missing the point. It's not that difficult to figure out who's part of the online community for the right reasons. We can see it in your… -
The confrontation waiting to happen
18 Jun 2013 | 2:00 amIt's not between you and your boss, your critics, your editor, your competition, your spouse or some other outsider. The essential confrontation, of course, is with yourself. You are your own biggest critic. And your own biggest competitor. Now that it's easier than ever to pick yourself, the question is, "why haven't you?" And now that it's easier to ignore the competition and become a category of one, the question is the same. Our instinct is to externalize the forces that are holding us back, but in fact, that's not the problem, is it? -
The thermostat and the frying pan
17 Jun 2013 | 2:45 amIf you want to cool your house to 68 degrees fahrenheit quickly, setting the thermostat to 62 degrees isn't going to get it temperate any faster than if you set it to 68. It blows full cold until it hits the number, then it stops. (For those down under where it is winter, the opposite is also true--extreme thermostat settings won't warm you up any faster). Frying pans don't work that way. Turning the temperature on the burner all the way up will certainly heat up that pan faster. Ah, an analogy! There is significant pressure on marketers to get it done fast. And so the inclination to spend a… -
"I get it"
16 Jun 2013 | 2:28 amNo need to read the whole book, I can just glance over the Cliffs Notes... I get it. I don't need to hear your whole pitch, just show me the summary slide... got it. No, I already heard about your vacation... remember, I saw the Instagram feed. Him, why would I go out with him? I read his match.com profile. You're probably smart enough to 'get it' merely by reading the 140 character summary of just about anything. But of course, that doesn't mean you understand it, or that it changed you. All it means is that you were quickly able to sort it into an appropriate category, to make a decision… -
Angry is a habit
15 Jun 2013 | 2:13 amIt's easy to imagine habits like a scotch after dinner, biting your nails or saying, "you know" after every sentence. An event or a time of day triggers us, and we go with the habit. It's easier than exploring new territory--it's merely a thoughtless response to an incoming trigger. But emotions can become habits as well. Distrustful is a habit. Lonely is a habit. Generous is a habit. When that stranger doesn't do what you expect, is your response to assume that she's out to get you, trying to make an extra buck, looking for a shortcut? Or do you default to the habit of giving that new person…
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Personal Development
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Life Regrets Of The Dying – How To Live Life With No Regrets
18 Jun 2013 | 1:00 am“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” – Sydney Smith What do you think goes through people’s minds as they lay on their deathbeds? What do you think they wish they had done, or hadn’t done? A nurse who cared for the dying recently shared her experience – and the regrets her patients had during the last few weeks she shared of their lives. It really made me think about my own life, what I might regret in the future – and maybe different actions I could take today. Here’s… -
Consumed By Metawork: Always Preparing, Never Doing
11 Jun 2013 | 1:00 am“A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.” – George Patton You may be familiar with this old Abraham Lincoln quote: ”If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” And for many people, that kind of perspective can be a tremendous life changer. If you’ve been going through your whole life without regard for any preparation, a little preparation will dramatically improve your productivity. However, there is a flip side to this. Get too consumed with planning and… -
The Lovers and The Fighters
13 May 2013 | 1:45 am“Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.”- Erwin Rommel Will you live forever? If not, you need to prioritize how you spend your time – and who you spend it with. Too many people waste their time and lives fighting to change people who don’t actually matter to them. One of my very strong core beliefs is, I will serve the lovers – not the fighters. Who Are The Lovers? The lovers are the people who love what I do, and who love improving themselves. They love to read, learn and make their lives better. They love to send my articles… -
Why I Hate The Words “I Can’t”
6 May 2013 | 1:00 am“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.”- Henry Ford Question: Have you ever been faced with a decision and said to yourself “I can’t do that”? Stop It. Too many people spend their lives avoiding responsibility by saying they can’t do something… When the truth is really, they won’t do it because they do not want to face the consequences. Examples: I can’t give up sugary drinks in order to lose weight I can’t just quit my job I can’t make time for that The truth is, what these words… -
The Best Way To Spend Your Time
3 May 2013 | 12:20 am“You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.”- Tom Hopkins Question: Do you think that improving yourself is becoming more or less important ? Which direction do you think the world is going? I’ll tell you my answer – it matters more than ever, and you are only going to become more responsible for your own future. I believe that improving yourself – your skills, your motivation and planning for your own future – is the single best investment you can make with your time.
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Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
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The One Key To Successful Content
18 Jun 2013 | 6:59 pmWhat do you think makes someone's content relevant? Last night in New York City, the kind people at Google hosted a book launch for CTRL ALT Delete. Instead of making it the standard fare, I opted to invite Seth Godin to join me on stage to discuss some of the core concepts of the book. My initial thought was to get Seth's take on my theory of business purgatory and then dive a little deeper into the five movements that have changed business forever, along with the triggers that each one of us has to bring to the work that we do. Seth would have none of that. Seth was more interested in… -
Does Retail Understand The Untethered Consumer?
16 Jun 2013 | 4:52 amEpisode #362 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. While many companies were still lamenting a basic website back in the nineties, Gary Schwartz was already imagining how content, voice and mobility would change how we connect to one another... and the brands that serve us. For over a decade, Gary has been a leader in the mobile industry. He is CEO of Impact Mobile (offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, etc...), is Chair of the Mobile Entertainment Forum and Chair Emeritus of the Mobile Committee for the Internet Advertising… -
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #156
14 Jun 2013 | 8:15 pmIs there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitoring, Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person "must… -
Spend 20 Minutes With A Genius
14 Jun 2013 | 5:48 pmYou're going to read, look at, listen to and watch a lot of content over the weekend. Most of it is going to suck. It's going to be boring. It's going to kill time rather than inspire you to find the time. What if I could give you something to watch for twenty minutes that will inspire you? Nobody does it better than Seth Godin. Don't believe me? Watch this talk on creativity with a theme called "backwards" that was recorded last month in NYC... 2013/05 Seth Godin | Backwards from CreativeMornings on Vimeo. See, I told you :) (and yes, quite candidly, I'm also psyching myself up for… -
Summer Reading 2013
14 Jun 2013 | 5:35 pmThere have been a slew of new business books that have come on to the market lately. Summer should be here... some time soon, right? If you're looking for something to read, here are some new releases that will grab your attention and enrapture your mind (in alphabetical order): Choose Yourself - Be Happy, Make Millions, Live The Dream by James Altucher. About the book: "The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for 'security,' everything we thought was 'safe,' no…
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Small towns could adapt “Downtown Dining Week”
18 Jun 2013 | 1:17 am“Downtown Dining Week” is an idea any small town could steal. Photo by Becky McCray. Here’s an idea from Milwaukee that any small town or rural region could copy: Downtown Dining Week. Downtown restaurants are offering a special rate, lunch for $10, and dinner for $20 or $30. That keeps it simple. My town of about 5,000 people has a downtown sandwich shop, a lunch counter at the drug store, and a dining area at the downtown grocery store. Not to mention the senior citizens center which also serves lunches. (Alva friends, straighten me out if I forgot a downtown eatery!) So,… -
Say Thanks to Small Business Owners
17 Jun 2013 | 3:34 amDon, the hardware store owner, in Concrete, Washington. Photo by Becky McCray. We walk and drive by small businesses every day. We go in their doors, make purchases and continue on our way without another thought. We depend on small businesses. They fill our need for products and services, and we expect them to be open on a regular basis to meet our needs (and sometimes we even call them during their off-hours). If you live in rural communities, they are the core of Main Street and the general business community. Besides Main Street, you will find them scattered throughout the town and… -
Brag Basket for June 14-16
13 Jun 2013 | 11:29 pmHonoring Canada today with this basket of fresh picked Gravenstein apples, British Columbia. Photo (CC) By Red58bill. The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one June 14-16, 2013. What good news will you add to the brag basket? Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good news and accomplishments that might inspire others. Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. What can you do in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great… -
Avoiding the Top Tax Mistakes
13 Jun 2013 | 3:48 amTwo free tax webinars from the IRS may help you take what you know about your business and avoid mistakes. Are you taking all the deductions you’re entitled to? Do you know what business tax credits you can take? Topic: Small Business Owners: Get All the Tax Benefits You Deserve Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Time: 11:00 a.m. (Pacific); Noon (Mountain); 1:00 p.m. (Central); 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) What’s Covered Learn about business expenses and deductions What is a business depreciation deduction? Find out which business tax credits are available for your business Get… -
Is it time to ban “Shop Local”?
12 Jun 2013 | 4:10 amHas “Shop Local” been so overused that it has become garbage? This first appeared in our weekly email newsletter, A Positive View of Rural. Even though I love local business, I’m about ready to ban “shop local.” Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? I mean, I’m something of a shop local champion. So why am I ready to get rid of “shop local”? Because I’m afraid it has lost all its meaning. People have been beat over the head with “shop local” so much, that their heads hurt. They got the “shop local” part, but none of the…
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Lessons from Japanese politicians' social media faux pas
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The strategic brilliance of Facebook Home
19 Jun 2013 | 9:27 amFacebook Home is a "brilliant bit of business jujitsu" that effectively pulls the rug out from under conventional mobile-oper -More- -
Facebook will put off video ad format to mid-October
19 Jun 2013 | 9:27 amFacebook is putting off the introduction of video ads until mid-October, according to a source, the second delay of the forma -More- The Social Media ROI Cookbook: Six Ingredients Top Brands Use In this free report, industry expert Altimeter explores the most effective "ingredients" for measuring the revenue impact of social media, providing insights and case studies from an array of top companies. Offerpop is happy to make this penetrating study available to SmartBrief readers. Download it for free! -
Evian serves up "Wimbledon Wiggle" social contest
19 Jun 2013 | 9:27 amEvian is promoting a social contest where tennis fans can submit videos of themselves doing the "Wimbledon Wiggle" for a chan -More- -
The sun is about to set on the telegraph business
19 Jun 2013 | 9:27 amIndia's state-owned telecom company, BSNL, processes about 5,000 telegrams a day, but on July 14 it will shut down the servic -More- Digital Marketing Manager Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Institute
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Proof That Podcasting Will Benefit Your Business
19 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amPat Flynn of The Smart Passive Income Blog has parlayed his everyday-guy persona into a six-figure income supported heavily by podcasting. “I’ve been able to make a much deeper connection with my audience,” Flynn said. “When I go to conferences, the first thing people who meet me say is, ‘I love listening to your podcast.’” [...] -
4 Easy Steps to Implement a Facebook Marketing Strategy
18 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amDo you have a Facebook marketing strategy? Is your Facebook marketing is working? If you don’t have a strategy with goals in place for your Facebook Page, you won’t know if you are getting a return on your social media efforts! Your Facebook marketing strategy shouldn’t live in a vacuum—it needs to be integrated with [...] -
Research Shows Blogging a Top Focus for Marketers
17 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amDo you ever wonder what tactics, tools and strategies other social media marketers are using? Regardless of how long you’ve been involved in social media, chances are you have some questions that you’d like answered. Questions such as, “What are the best social management tools?” or “What are the best ways to engage my audience [...] -
Facebook Hashtags: This Week in Social Media
15 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amWelcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Launches Clickable Hashtags: Clickable hashtags are rolling out on Facebook. “When you click on a hashtag in [...] -
Pinterest Success: Creative Ways to Use Pinterest for Your Business
14 Jun 2013 | 3:00 amDo you use Pinterest for business? Are you wondering how your business can benefit from Pinterest? To learn some creative ways to use Pinterest to help your business, I interview Cynthia Sanchez for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social [...]
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15 Bodybuilding Tips for Beginners
19 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amIf you are new to bodybuilding and you want to improve the way you look, here are some useful tips that will help you a lot! You should not expect huge improvements over night, but muscle mass will slowly grow over time. It’s really important to have patience, to stick to your workouts and diet, and results will definitely show! 1. Stick to Free Weights. Even though the modern gyms are full of fancy and shiny machines, they will not help you build a solid foundation of muscle mass. Dumbbells and barbells are the best when it comes to building muscle and especially for a beginner. 2. Do… -
Is Studying Abroad Worth The Cost?
19 Jun 2013 | 9:00 amStudying abroad is an amazing experience, but it is also incredibly expensive. If you ask those who have done it whether or not the experience was worth the price, they will always say yes, but according to this infographic, studying abroad can actually pay for itself as your life progresses. When you return to your home, you can add studying abroad to your resume to show that you understand other cultures and can get along with people of different nationalities. This can increase your employability, especially if you studied in a country that speaks another language. This is particularly… -
How to Lower Blood Sugar Naturally and Healthfully
19 Jun 2013 | 7:50 amIf you find yourself in a situation where you need to lower your blood sugar naturally and healthfully, you might be a diabetic or you might have hyperglycemia, a condition characterized by high blood sugar levels. In people who do not have diabetes, the pancreas releases a chemical called insulin into the bloodstream. This regulates blood sugar levels. In diabetic patients, the body has lost its ability to do this. Levels can climb dangerously high, ultimately causing organ damage if left unchecked. You can successfully control your blood sugar. Working with your doctor and using tips from… -
Daily Quote: What to Do if You Want to Build a Ship
19 Jun 2013 | 6:30 amIf you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. What makes people do what they do? Why do some people succeed while others fail? The answer just might be motivation. We know that from an early age motivation prompts us to want to learn and exhibit different types of behavior and stimulates us to accomplish new feats of success. As we grow and mature through the different stages of our lives, we hopefully learn what motivates us and what does not. 6 Types of Motivation Explained… -
The Important Things and Advice to know that People Generally Aren’t Told about
19 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amWhat are important things and advice to know that people generally aren’t told about? Here’s a great answer we found in Quora by Marcus Geduld who provides some valuable tips on life improvement. 1. Marry your best friend. I am truly amazed that I have the most successful marriage of all my friends — going strong after fifteen years. Most of my friends are amazed, too, because, growing up, I was the geek who couldn’t get a girlfriend. I had almost no relationships until I was in my mid twenties. I got married at 29. I’m now 45 and still deeply in love. Meanwhile,…
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Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog
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Habits and the Long View
16 Jun 2013 | 3:14 pmIf you aren’t satisfied with your life today, yet you continue the same habits that got you here, you’ll still be dissatisfied next year, possibly even more so. Many habits may feel quite satisfying in the moment, but they have no long-term positive impact. They are temporary pleasures or escapes but nothing more. These habits tend to self-perpetuate automatically, but as you become more conscious and rational, you’ll discover the importance of replacing these short-sighted habits with better ones. In my early 20s I could spend as much as 18 hours straight playing video… -
Spring Forest Healingfest – Free Online Event
10 Jun 2013 | 4:29 pmLearning Strategies is hosting another free online streaming event this week. It’s called Spring Forest Healingfest and features Qigong expert Chunyi Lin. Today’s session is about Qi energy, and it’s already available for you to listen to it now. You can access the Healingfest via your web browser or smart phone. All 6 days of the Healingfest are free, with new sessions posted each day. Each session can be streamed for free for about 24 hours. After that, Learning Strategies will be selling the recordings. A typical Healingfest session is about 30 minutes, so it’s an… -
How Obedient Are You?
28 May 2013 | 5:33 pmIn the early 1960s, Yale professor Stanley Milgram conducted a serious of famous psychological experiments to measure people’s obedience to authority. A volunteer was instructed by an experimenter to help administer a simple test to a subject in another room. Cards were drawn to determine which of two “volunteers” would play each role, but the cards were rigged such that the actual volunteer was always given the same role each time, and the other role was played by an actor. This gave the volunteers the impression that the role they happened to be assigned was arbitrary. The… -
London Meet-up Details – May 19
16 May 2013 | 2:51 pmNow that I’m in the UK, the Brits tell me I won’t be allowed to leave unless we have a social meet-up here. So let’s make it so! Here are the details of our first-ever London meet-up. Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013 Time: 2:00 pm (14:00) Location: In the Royal Festival Hall of Southbank Centre, Level 2, in the seating area across from the Riverside Terrace Cafe. Riverside is literal in this case since we’ll be on the river side of the building on the South bank of the Thames, so you’ll see the river if you look out the windows from the meet-up area. This is a public… -
Do You Want Comfort or Growth?
12 May 2013 | 1:09 pmAt a recent visit to the beautiful Keukenhof flower gardens in Holland, I learned about the practice of topping. As flowers grow, sometimes the growers cut off the tops of the flowers, which they believe causes the plants to invest more energy into flower growth and less into seed production. The expected result is flower buds that will produce higher quality flowers. This is a nice analogy for personal growth as well. Sometimes when we produce preliminary results in a certain area, it can be helpful to cut them off and discard them. This can free up energy for a stronger attempt elsewhere…
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TechCrunch
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AnyPresence Launches A Meta-API Platform To Help Companies Build Developer Communities
19 Jun 2013 | 10:26 amAnyPresence, a mobile backend-as-a-service, is launching a platform that tailors front-end branding and functionality with a backend server that the company calls a “meta API.” Richard Mendis, chief marketing officer and co-founder of AnyPresence, calls its “Meta- Platform” an evolution of API management. He said the first-generation of API management companies helped customers develop APIs. Today’s developers need the API but also the software developer kit (SDK) and a starter user interface. The AnyPresence Meta-Platform pre-integrates a company’s product or services and… -
YC-Backed Videopixie Launches To Create A Marketplace For Video Editors
19 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amThere are tons of raw video footage out there: Videos taken on vacation or school trips, videos of friends and family, videos taken to show off new restaurants and boutiques. And every day there’s more. But the problem of editing that footage is a problem. For as many of us as there are who like to shoot video, very few of us know how to edit it. That’s a problem Videopixie is trying to solve, by creating a marketplace devoted entirely to connecting users who have video with those who can edit it. By doing so, it’s providing a way for anyone to have beautiful videos created… -
Google Launches New AdSense Scorecard To Help Publishers Better Understand Their Sites' Performance
19 Jun 2013 | 9:41 amGoogle launched a new scorecard in AdSense today that allows site owners to see how their properties are performing relative to other AdSense publishers. The scorecard is organized into three categories: revenue optimization, site health and Google+ (because everything Google does needs to have a bit of Google+ built-in). For each of these, Google assigns a rating between one and five and suggests improvements for increasing traffic and revenue. As Google notes, the company won’t take any action and punish a site that has a low score in any of these three areas. “This is an… -
Vdio, The TV & Movie Streaming Service From Rdio, Launches To Public
19 Jun 2013 | 9:30 amVdio, the video streaming service which launched into public beta this April as a complement to Rdio’s subscription music service, is today becoming available to all. Earlier, the service was available for preview in the U.S. and U.K., but only to those who were already paying Rdio Premium or Unlimited customers. Today, however, anyone can sign up for the Vdio TV and movie streaming service (which is still only available in the U.S. and U.K.), even if they don’t use Rdio. The video streaming service was originally part of Rdio founder’s Janus Friis’s vision, Rdio and… -
Hike, India's Mobile Messaging Upstart, Expands Language Support & Adds Offline Messaging, Stickers & More To Fuel Growth
19 Jun 2013 | 9:07 amThere’s no room at the digital inn for more mobile messaging apps, but that’s not stopping them crowding in. Hike, an Indian mobile messaging app that’s only been around six months but has amassed more than five million registered users in that time, is doubling down on its home market while expanding its accessibility further afield too. Version 2.2 of the hike app adds support for four new languages — Spanish, French, Russian, and Portuguese — building out the previously supported two: English and German. The company said it plans to aggressively expand its…
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TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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Apple updates Siri to help those considering suicide to get help
19 Jun 2013 | 10:00 amGigaOM noticed that Apple quietly released an update to Siri that offers to put a user in contact with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, should he or she mention suicide. Should the person decline the offer, Siri then brings up area suicide prevention centers in a second attempt to provide resources. As GigaOM notes, Google has had this search since 2010. Apple noted in its customer privacy statement on Tuesday that among the most common requests from law enforcement are ones from police hoping to prevent suicide. There's a lot of useful and even more silly ways to take advantage of… -
Researchers easily crack iOS-generated Hotspot passwords
19 Jun 2013 | 8:00 amWhen you enable the Personal Hotspot feature on your iPhone, iOS will generate a password on your behalf. It's convenient, but recent research from FAU in Germany suggests it is not very secure. According to researchers Andreas Kurtz, Felix Freiling and Daniel Metz, the default hotspot password in iOS 6 uses a short English word with some random numbers at the end. Earlier versions of iOS used a similar pattern that included two words separated by two numbers. Not surprisingly, these passwords can be cracked in no time via a brute-force attack. Using one AMD Radeon HD 6990 GPU, the team was… -
Square Enix uses your face for action in Bloodmasque
18 Jun 2013 | 6:00 pmSquare Enix's Bloodmasque was undoubtedly the strangest game I saw at E3 last week, and in a year defined by indie titles and two new HD consoles, I think that's saying something. Square Enix has had a weird time with the App Store -- other companies like Capcom and EA have found a lot of success in smaller titles, but Square Enix has clung to its own console traditions, releasing relatively large and high-quality, high-production titles for a relatively high cost. Bloodmasque follows this trend (though the price has yet to be announced just yet), and it also brings one weird little twist… -
Daily iPhone App: Agricola is Playdek's great adaptation of the board game
18 Jun 2013 | 2:30 pmAgricola is one of the most popular board games around these days -- it's sort of a farming simulation game, where you can take two turns every round, and then periodically get rewards paid off in a harvest. Playdek is an up-and-coming iOS developer that's mostly done card games so far -- they're behind the Penny Arcade card game, as well as the excellent Ascension and a more complicated one I really like called Nightfall. Now, Playdek has teamed up with the creators of Agricola and Lookout Games to produce this iOS adaptation, available right now on the App Store for US$6.99. The way the… -
Knights of Pen and Paper now updated to +1 edition
18 Jun 2013 | 1:00 pmThe excellent iOS RPG Knights of Pen and Paper has been updated to the +1 Edition (as we heard it would be back at GDC) and is now available as a free update on the App Store. This new version, which is technically 2.02, brings lots of new content, game updates, new dungeons to explore and many other extras. For example, there's now a place called The Tavern, where you can keep old heroes and swap in new ones. Several new battle options nearly turned Knights of Pen and Paper into entirely new game. The +1 edition was spurred on by the game's new publisher, Paradox. Thanks to that…
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Twitter Site Issue
3 Jun 2013 | 1:22 pmUpdate: This issue has been resolved. Due to an error in a routine change, Twitter was not available from 1:08pm PDT to 1:33pm PDT. We rolled back the erroneous change as soon as we identified the issue. Additionally, some users may have experienced Tweet delivery delay from 1:33pm PDT and 1:53pm PDT. We apologize for the inconvenience. Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue. -
Twitter Service Issue
23 May 2013 | 4:22 pmSome web users may be experiencing empty timelines and some users may be experiencing an issue with Twitter on mobile devices. Our engineers are currently working on this issue. Update: This issue is resolved as of 6:37pm PST. -
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Twitter Service Issue
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Issue with Links Contained within Tweets
11 Apr 2013 | 7:28 amSome users may have experienced an issue with links contained within Tweets. This issue has been resolved as of 7:10 am PST.
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Unclutterer
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Unitasker Wednesday: Glitter Cleanup Cloth
19 Jun 2013 | 7:30 amAll Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy! Glitter is one of the most evil craft products in existence. Most often, its users are children under the age of 10 who have no business decorating with the vile stuff. Once a glitter container is opened, glitter infects every possible thing it comes near. Does anyone ever garner enough joy from these sparkly bits to warrant the clean up afterward because those sparkly bits get everywhere? My guess is: no. In an attempt to make glitter less awful, Martha… -
A year ago on Unclutterer
19 Jun 2013 | 7:15 am2012 Getting a handle on your craft suppliesGuest post author and professional organizer Janine Adams gives seasoned, practical advice for keeping your craft and/or hobby supplies from taking over your home. 2010 Musings on children’s birthday partiesAs a parent, you want the world for your kid. You want your child to be liked by his classmates, you want your child to be happy, and you want to celebrate his life. A basic swimming party with hamburgers can easily cost a hundred dollars — spending 10 times more once a year on a birthday party wouldn’t seem like such a big… -
Ten awesome Dropbox tricks
18 Jun 2013 | 7:30 amDropbox is a service that offers online storage of your stuff. It’s tremendously convenient and used by lots of people world wide. Dropbox is a quick-and-dirty sharing and backup tool that many workers (including yours truly) couldn’t work without. What many people don’t realize is that Dropbox is capable of a lot more than drag-and-drop storage of your files. There are numerous cool things you can do with it, but the following are 10 useful tricks I’ve discovered to help keep me organized and reduce my digital clutter. Save space with selective sync My personal computer is a… -
Procrastinating can give you time to think
17 Jun 2013 | 7:30 amIf all decisions were easy to make, we’d probably save time (for the things we love) and we’d likely have less clutter, too. In that ideal world of easy decision making, we’d know what to do with everything we own and we wouldn’t scratch our heads trying to figure out where to store our things. Gone would be the days of delaying decisions because of uncertainty. And, we’d probably have fewer opportunities to procrastinate. This sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? Frank Partnoy, author of Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, begs to differ. Partnoy, in an… -
A year ago on Unclutterer
16 Jun 2013 | 7:15 am2012 Unitasker Wednesday: Corn DesilkerIn all of my years of shucking, cooking, and eating a ridiculous amount of corn, I have never once thought I needed a device to remove the silk from an ear. However, someone out there apparently thinks I am wrong and believes a special tool is necessary for doing a very simple task that your hands can do. Exhibit A: The Corn Desilker. Breaking projects down into simple, achievable stepsWhen you break projects down into simple, achievable steps, you set yourself up for success. You are more likely to complete a project when the steps to “done”…
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Web Strategy by Jeremiah
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The Many Forms of Transaction in the Collaborative Economy
19 Jun 2013 | 6:08 amAbove New Image: An advanced view of the Collaborative Economy Value Chain in an ‘exploded’ view. This exclusive image, which was not included in the seminal report on the Collaborative Economy, shows a potential new business model that taps into new transactions beyond traditional selling. In the final phase of “provide a platform” the crowd is building new products. [The Collaborative Economy is an economic model where ownership and access are shared between corporations, startups, and people] First, it’s key to read the full report, and watch the 18 minute… -
The Dark Side to the Collaborative Economy
18 Jun 2013 | 6:56 amAs part of my ongoing coverage of the Collaborative Economy (read all the posts) it’s important we explore all facets of this disruptive trend to corporations not just upsides, but the downsides. I also see that marketplace friction is a sign of disruption as power changes hands, which should make the seasoned web strategist want to look closer. If you’re from the sharing movement and are offended by this post, first, read my opposite of this post is the three drivers of the Collaborative Economy where we’ve documented over a dozen specific attributes that are driving… -
Collaborative Economy: Live Like Royalty Without Owning a Throne
17 Jun 2013 | 5:26 amEver wanted to live a life of luxury but are just shy of a few billion dollars? Now, with simple web technologies, anyone can have access –without owning it. In fact, I’m living this too, as I wrote a personal, heartfelt note to brands, telling how I want an open relationship. As part of my ongoing coverage of the next phase of social business, I’m covering the collaborative economy, where people are sharing goods and services using the internet, you can read the definitive report, or peruse all the posts. A collaborative economy of shared ownership and access in luxury… -
Infographic: Collaborative Economy Startups Proliferating
14 Jun 2013 | 11:41 amThis inforgraphic is part of my ongoing coverage of the collaborative economy (see all posts), which is the next phase of the social business. What’s that? We’ve published a seminal report on what it means for corporations including video, slides and additional resources. Altimeter’s segmented 200 sharing startups to find out why –and how –these disruptive startups are spreading across many verticals, here’s some of the key findings: Excessive influx of startups in every industry. One of the findings is that there is a cambrian explosion of startups,… -
Internet Phases: Past, Present, and Future
11 Jun 2013 | 5:45 amThanks to you, last week’s report on the collaborative economy was readily received, and has been viewed over 26k times, the media picked up on it, and bloggers alike. As we digest what it means, it’s important to recognize this is the next phase in the internet, and the next phase of social business. An interesting finding is that the second era (social) and the third era (collaborative economy), use the same technologies (social technologies) but instead of sharing media and ideas –people are sharing goods and services. This is all part of a continuum and we need to…
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The Futility of Comparing Yourself to Others
17 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amBy Leo Babauta One of the biggest reasons we’re not content with ourselves and our lives is that we compare ourselves to other people. Picture it: you see photos of what someone else is doing on Facebook and think your life isn’t exciting enough. You see someone else who has a cool job and think you’re not doing that great in your career. You see someone with a hotter body, and feel bad about yours. You see someone who has created an awesome business, and think you’re not doing enough. You read about people who are traveling the world, learning languages, going to… -
A Secret to Dad Greatness
16 Jun 2013 | 6:00 amBy Leo Babauta I have six kids, ages ranging at the moment from 7 to 20. And while I’m not perfect as a father, I have learned a thing or two from my 20 years of service. I’ve learned to pay attention, to give them space, to accept them for who they are, to be a guide and not a director, to help them through teachable moments, to love reading a book with them, to walk and talk when we have problems, to give hugs when they are in pain and hugs when they experience a triumph, to set limits and then remove the limits when they’re excited about something. It’s a lot to… -
Habits: A Simple Change in Mindset Changes Everything
13 Jun 2013 | 7:00 amBy Leo Babauta One of the best tricks I’ve learned to improve my likelihood of sticking to a habit is so simple it’s sinful. Stop thinking of a new habit as something you have to do, but as something you are allowed to do. Let’s say you’re starting a workout. Many people think, “OK, I gotta do this. It’s good for me, I’m way too lazy, I need to burn off my fat, if I do this I’ll feel better about myself.” This is wrong, because then the workout is a chore you have to get through to get the benefits, and so you struggle through this boring,… -
The Worry That You’re Doing the Wrong Thing Right Now
10 Jun 2013 | 7:48 amBy Leo Babauta It’s first thing in your workday, and you open up your email. There’s a host of messages, old and new, asking for your attention. You also open up other inboxes in social media and the like. You quickly go through them and get a picture of what you need to get done right now. But where do you start? You begin one task from an email, but then quickly have the urge to see if there’s something else more important you should be doing. And this problem repeats itself — every time you sit down with one thing, the dozens of others on your mind (and the many… -
6 Steps To Being More Creative
7 Jun 2013 | 8:00 amEditor’s note: This is a guest post from Marc Lesser, CEO of SIYLI, Zen priest, and author of Know Yourself, Forget Yourself. For most of my life I did not think of myself as creative at all. Then, many years ago, I started a greeting card company, despite that I had rarely purchased or sent greetings cards. My motivation was combining business with taking care of the environment, by making products from recycled paper. I found myself in a role where I needed to be very creative – in developing new products as well as how to distribute products. I also found that the act of leadership…
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A Maui Blog
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Calling All Maui Artists – Ho’ola Spa
7 Jun 2013 | 9:47 amThe innovation just keeps rolling. Ho’ola Spa has issued a Call to Artists to submit their work for exhibition in this beautiful new space. The selected Artists will be eligible to win $5,000 in cash prizes through an online contest to be held next month after artwork has been juried and selected. Artists can visit [...] -
Visiting Upcountry Maui
28 May 2013 | 1:38 pm“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” – ZenMama It’s no secret that for most visitors to Maui the beaches are the reason for their trek across the seas. I certainly don’t blame them, either, with the gorgeous turquoise waters, rolling waves and perfect temperatures, the beaches are a must! However, [...] -
Memorial Day In The Pacific
27 May 2013 | 12:44 pmMemorial Day is one of those days where I just want to stop and reflect, appreciate and be thankful, remember and honor the once who had made sacrifices for us. This video produce by the podcast “Beachwalks with Rox”. This was made in 2006 but the message is as relevant today as it was [...] -
Blossoms For The Brave – Remembering and Honoring our Veterans on Memorial Day here on Maui
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Barrio Fiesta Maui – May 24 and 25, 2013
22 May 2013 | 3:48 pmThe month of May is full of celebrations…there’s Mother’s Day, May Day, Memorial Day. And then there’s weeks to celebrate nurses, teachers, and the police. Oh yeah, almost forgot…it’s also my birthday month (and that of my sister Gloria). And here on Maui, the month of Maui means it’s time for the Barrio Fiesta. For [...]
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Nonstop Honolulu » Baker’s Hours
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Party pics: Stars, Stripes and Bikinis at Whiskey Dix Saloon
1 Jun 2013 | 9:00 amTo celebrate Military Appreciation Day, Whiskey Dix Saloon held a Stars, Stripes & Bikinis party on Friday. Aside from the usual two-stepping, square dancing and giant Jenga, the highlight of the evening was the Stars and Stripes bikini contest, hosted by Miss Hooters Hawaii, Tia Spence. ◄ Back Next ► Whiskey Dix Saloon (1 of 35) Photo by Ed Morita -
A week of Jim Beam Bourbon tastings
24 May 2013 | 8:54 pmJim Beam’s master distiller, Frederick “Fred” Booker Noe III has had a busy week in Hawaii meeting with Bourbon fans and conducting tastings at various locations around Honolulu. We were able to catch up with Noe this week at tasting events at Pint + Jigger and the Kahala Hotel & Resort where he guided guests through the history of Jim Beam and its line up of bourbons. Highlighted in the tasting were Jim Beam’s new brands, Jacob’s Ghost (a white bourbon) and Devil’s Cut whiskies. Noe even gave a peek at the Jim Beam 12-year Signature bottle that they… -
Artisanal beer dinner at 12th Avenue Grill
16 May 2013 | 9:00 am12th Avenue Grill celebrated American craft beer week with a tasting dinner featuring brews from Maui Brewing Co. Ballast Point, Brewery Ommegang, Deschutes, Sierra Nevada and FiftyFifty. Also on the menu were locally grown meats, including Maui Cattle Co. beef, rabbit from Shinsato Farms, Molokai venison, and Big Island wild boar. In addition to the beer dinner, guests were able to sign up for 12th Avenue Grill’s newly launched Beer Society, which would enable them to learn about future beer tasting events at dinners. Here’s a look at an evening of great beers. ◄ Back Next… -
Weekend in Hana
14 May 2013 | 9:00 amThis past weekend, I had a great opportunity to stay at the Travaasa Hana hotel and cover the first ever Spring Harvest dinner featuring Travaasa chef, Barry Villiarimo, guest chefs, Sheldon Simeon and Mark Noguchi, along with barman, Dave Power. Neither heavy rains nor cancelled flights over the weekend, prevented us from experiencing what Hana had to offer. Here’s a look behind the scenes of the inaugural Hana Harvest and some of the activities we did before and after the special event. ◄ Back Next ► Cookout at Hana Bay (1 of 41) The first day we arrived, Mark Noguch,… -
Hana Harvest dinner
13 May 2013 | 11:00 amChefs Sheldon Simeon, Mark Noguchi and Barry Villiarimo shared their combined their creative cooking talents for a tasting dinner held at Travaasa Hana’s turn-of-the-century Plantation Guest House. The event, which benefited Mahele Farm and the Hana Youth Center, featured six course dinner paired with cocktails by Dave Power of the Feral Pig on Kaua‘i. After an amazing day gathering inspiration at Mahele Farm, Simeon, Noguchi, Villiarimo and Power pretty much tossed the menu they had planned out the window in favor of one that utilized ingredients harvested that day at the farm like…
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Bytemarks
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Girl Scouts unveil ISS experiment
4 Jun 2013 | 7:59 pmBack in March 2013 the team of eight Girl Scouts of Hawaii sent a Microlab consisting of a self contain vessel with 8 arugula seeds, potting soil, lighting, water, camera and timing electronics to the International Space Station (ISS). The Microlab was sent to the ISS onboard the Space X Falcon 9 rocket on a supply delivery. After 30 day aboard the ISS and making the land journey back to Hawaii, the team took apart their Microlab to see if they were successful at germinating the arugula seeds. Of the eight seeds one did sprout a root about .5 inches long. Several of the seeds did not… -
Hokule`a: World Wide Voyage
3 Jun 2013 | 12:17 amThe Hokule`a and companion ship Hikianalia set sail on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 on the World Wide Voyage which will take 4 years and go around the world. The pair of canoes will travel a total of 47,000 miles, visit 26 countries and enter 85 ports. On their first leg of the journey and for the next 12 months, both vessels will travel around Hawaii. The vision for the World Wide Voyage is to Malama Honua, or Care for the Earth. The crew and vessel will carry this message on their journey, “to become a catalyst for positive change in Hawaii by constantly learning from and nurturing… -
6th Annual Geek Meet
22 Apr 2013 | 1:35 amThe annual gathering of geeks including coders, ham radio operators, astronomers, inventors, cosplayers, medieval martial arts, train operators, and Google Ingress players at Ala Moana Beach Park – Magic Island, April 21, 2013. -
Hawaii Open Data
21 Mar 2013 | 11:05 pmI’ve been negligent in my posts here but I have an excuse. I’ve been following the Open Data bill (HB632) through the Legislature and blogging about at Hawaii Open Data. If you are interested in the journey a bill takes you will find my posts here: Open Data Bills: SB448 & HB632 HB632 HD1 Relating to Open Data Open Data Bills: SB448 & HB632 Update The politics of Open Data HB632 HD2 Crosses Major Milestone -
Rotary Global Peace Forum – Aung San Suu Kyi
17 Feb 2013 | 11:17 pmCatching up on some belated posts, I especially wanted to bring attention to this event brought to us by the Rotary International. The keynote speech was by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Among many other awards, she also won the highest civilian honor in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is an amazing woman and I was fortunate to have the chance to hear her speech. The keynote was finally put online and it is well worth watching. There are many quotable moments but one that stood out for me was the following: Compromise requires courage because compromise means…
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Bytemarks Cafe
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Episode 252: UHERO Dashboard Project – June 12, 2013
12 Jun 2013 | 11:54 pmFirst we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Piia Aarma from HiBEAM to tell us about the upcoming Transitions and Growth workshop. Finally, we’ll talk to Carl Bonham and Ben Trevino to learn about the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO), and how it’s building a data dashboard to help the community better understand the many facets of the local economy. Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes -
Episode 251: State of the Web – June 5, 2013
6 Jun 2013 | 2:39 amFirst we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Collin Kobayashi from 3D Innovations to tell us about the upcoming HTDC Product Design & Development Seminar. Finally, we find out how the web has evolved over the last 10 years and where it is headed in the next 10 years, from two of Hawaii’s foremost web thought leaders, Kevin Hughes and Dan Leuck. Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes -
Episode 250: Hawaii Space Flight Lab – May 29, 2013
29 May 2013 | 11:51 pmFirst we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Mimi Wong and Kimble McCann from Kamehameha School to talk about the KS Unconference. Finally, we find out about the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory and plans for UH to put a satellite in low earth orbit. We’ll talk with Greg Witteman from Honolulu Community College and Georgeanne Friend from Kauai Community College both along with UH Manoa are part of the space launch program. Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes -
Episode 249: Makerspaces – May 22, 2013
23 May 2013 | 12:29 amFirst we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Leigh-Ann Miyasato from the Entrepreneur Foundation to tell us about the upcoming Pupus and Pitches. Finally, right off the plane from San Francisco’s Maker Faire we’ve invited Marion Ano from Hi Capacity and Ross Mukai from Oahu Makerspace to find out about the Maker movement and plans for organizing a mini Maker Faire in Hawaii. We also had Don Kosak from Nalukai and Hawaii Tech Works, Neil Scott from the Makery and Jerry Isdale from Maui Makers call in. If you are… -
Episode 248: Culture of Innovation – May 15, 2013
16 May 2013 | 12:50 amFirst we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Mike Prasad from Kinetiq Labs to tell us about the upcoming Wetware Wed. Finally, we find out how a school in Waipahu and a company on Bishop St. are building a cuture of innovation. We’ll talk to Keith Hayashi, Principal at Waipahu High School and John Komeiji Sr. Vice President from Hawaiian Telcom about thinking different. As an added note upcoming Design Thinking events include this workshop hosted by HTDC and the Design Thinking Bootcamp on June 18, 2013 Download…
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Elliott
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What makes you happiest? Your TV — and here’s why
18 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pmJessica Beeman paid $779 for her 50-inch TV, a purchase she was pleased with, until one day "it just stopped" working. And then she wasn't. -
The Elliott Show: my scamminess, force majeure and Acts of God
18 Jun 2013 | 8:00 amIn this week’s episode of The Christopher Elliott Show, I dissect my own scamminess, talk about force majeure events and Acts of God and travel. What a fun discussion! Thanks for joining in. Tune in to the hashtag #elliottshow on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter on Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT to... -
Any hope of saving a “vacation from hell” to Cuba?
17 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pmIf you were less than impressed with your last vacation, you're in good company. Say "hello" to Colette Blanchette, who recently traveled to Cuba for what was supposed to be a relaxing tropical getaway. -
Has anyone invoked an “Act of God” clause when you traveled?
17 Jun 2013 | 4:53 pmThis is the online edition of Elliott’s E-Mail, my free weekly newsletter. Please join me Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT for Travel Live, a half-hour conversation across Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. Tune in to the hashtag #travel at 10 a.m., and I’ll explain the rest. Our topic: When... -
“You are running a scam”
16 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pmMaybe I should have said "no" to the case. All the warning signs were there.
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Building a Community for Turtle Bay Resort
1 Apr 2013 | 11:45 amEarlier this year I decided to launch Get Involved Hawaii to bring awareness to legislative bills that caught my personal attention. One that came across my screen was SB894 RELATING TO LAND ACQUISITION which would “Direct the Governor, or the Governor’s designee, to negotiate with the current owners of the undeveloped portions of the property [...] -
Get Involved Hawaii on Tumblr
30 Jan 2013 | 2:31 pmAs many of you know much of my life’s work is committed to building communities, especially home here in Hawaii. I don’t have all of the answers or profess to have them. All I have is my mind to discern, my heart to temper, and my passion to drive. And, sometimes isn’t that enough to [...] -
iPad app recommendations for Peace of Mind
24 Jan 2013 | 10:48 pmThis afternoon I spent a couple of hours with the CTE leaders from Nanakuli, Campbell, Kapolei, and Waipahu high school. I was asked to share some iPad app recommendations, the same as I did last year. Last year I recommend more education related apps like Khan Academy and Mindmeister, however this year I wanted to [...] -
Best day of my life
21 Jan 2013 | 3:16 pm
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Hawaii Vacation Advice - GoVisitHawaii.com
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Which Hawaiian Island do I choose for my vacation if I want to go to Pearl Harbor?
19 Jun 2013 | 8:02 amA view of Pearl Harbor showing the USS Missouri Battleship and the USS Arizona MemorialPearl Harbor is home to the USS Arizona Memorial, Mighty Mo, the USS Bowfin submarine. With Pearl Harbor’s importance in American history, many people want to make sure they see it as part of their first Hawaii vacation. A question I commonly hear is: which island should I choose for my Hawaii vacation if I want to see Pearl Harbor? Many people assume that they must plan an Oahu vacation in order to see Pearl Harbor. An Oahu vacation certainly makes visitingPearl Harbor easy. However, you can… -
Review: Honua Kai Resort in North Kaanapali, Maui
17 Jun 2013 | 10:54 amThe ocean front playground for kids of all ages at Honua KaiHonua Kai Resort offers the comforts of home but with the added amenities of a resort. This all-suite resort offers guests their own, fully-equipped gourmet kitchen, living areas, a large lanai, separate bedroom(s) with large baths. With all the high-end appliances and furnishings, staying at Honua Kai gives you the feeling of living like a rockstar in your personal Maui villa.The locationHonua Kai is located on North Kaanapali Beach, which is a great location for a Maui vacation. This section of Kaanapali Beach is north and away… -
Aloha Friday Photo: Oozing pahoehoe lava
14 Jun 2013 | 7:07 amToday’s amazing photo was supplied by Jack Boeggeman. Jack took this lava photo during his Christmas vacation to Hawaii.What a great shot! It appears that Jack was able to get very close to the lava flow — probably close enough to feel the radiating heat.Jack’s photo is of pahoehoe lava, which is the smooth, slow-moving lava. Use this link for descriptions of the two major types of lava you’ll see in Hawaii.Mahalo nui loa to Jack Boeggeman for sharing his photo with us for Aloha Friday. -
Fireworks & July 4th Events in Waikiki, Honolulu & Oahu 2013
12 Jun 2013 | 10:59 amIf Waikiki is your destination for July 4th, we’ve prepared a comprehensive list of the top fireworks shows in and around Waikiki, Honolulu and the island of Oahu.July 4th is an excellent time to be on Oahu. With fireworks displays, music and great food around the island, you’ll find fun ways to celebrate Independence Day. There’s so much going on for the holiday, that events actually begin on July 3rd!Wednesday, July 3rd – Aloha Tower Fireworks – HonoluluAloha Tower Marketplace continues their tradition of fireworks and entertainment on July 3rd once again for… -
Kapalua Spa: a top Maui spa
10 Jun 2013 | 2:15 pmOur experience at Kapalua Spa in Maui was outstanding. We intend to return here again and again on future Maui visits. Views of Kapalua Bay from the lanai at Kapalua SpaWith a rush, we barely made our appointment for a couples massage ($197 per person) on time because we had a fun but, busy day. (Our previous tour ran a bit longer than expected.) While I could only imagine the staff had been concerned that we might not make our appointment, they showed no signs of frustration. Instead, they were welcoming and kind. Though we frantically rushed in at arrival, we left feeling peaceful, relaxed…
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Leadership
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Bill Chee receives 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award in Real Estate from Hawaii Business magazine
6 Jun 2013 | 5:28 pmReal estate pioneer Bill Chee receives the first Lifetime Achievement Award in Real Estate from Hawaii Business. -
Report Card: School Administrators
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Talk Story with Micah Kane
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Talk Story with David Carey of Outrigger
1 Mar 2013 | 1:52 pmThe president and CEO of Outrigger Enterprises Group talks about tourism trends and the difficulty of building a new standalone hotel. -
Hawaii Business Black Book 2012
30 Nov 2012 | 2:53 pmBiographies of 320 Hawaii business and nonprofit executives you need to know.
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Features
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Hawaii Beekeeping Makes a Comeback
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Returning Home to Hawaii After Years Abroad
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Hawaii Business BOSS - June 2013
6 Jun 2013 | 5:44 pm401 Hawaii business leaders weigh in on the economy, with a special outlook on construction -
Bill Chee receives 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award in Real Estate from Hawaii Business magazine
6 Jun 2013 | 5:28 pmReal estate pioneer Bill Chee receives the first Lifetime Achievement Award in Real Estate from Hawaii Business. -
Top 100 Realtors 2013
6 Jun 2013 | 5:10 pmHawaii Business magazine's Top 100 Realtors 2013, our annual list ranking the state's top real estate professionals by total sales volume.
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Hawaiimagazine.com | HAWAII Today
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Hawaii Food & Wine Festival announces lineup for daytime events on Oahu
19 Jun 2013 | 12:21 amHawaii Food & Wine Festival announces lineup for daytime events on Oahu Organizers of the third annual Hawaii Food & Wine Festival, slated for Sept. 1-9, last week announced the lineup for daytime events that offer up-close-and-personal experiences with chefs, farmers, winemakers, and cultural practitioners.The fest, which showcases Hawaii’s bounty of locally sourced produce, seafood, beef and poultry, features more than 70 internationally renowned master chefs, culinary personalities, and wine and spirit producers.Co-founded by two of Hawaii’s James Beard... -
Hawaii Pollinator Week focuses on role of bees in maintaining diverse ecosystems
18 Jun 2013 | 4:13 amHawaii Pollinator Week focuses on role of bees in maintaining diverse ecosystems In Hawaii, bees help to balance a delicate ecosystem and curate some of our signature plant species such as the ohia lehua and macadamia nut tree. Honey has also long been ranked amongst Hawaii’s top food exports.In recent years, however, mites, small hive beetles, and a tiny parasite called nosema have decimated honeybee populations on the U.S. Mainland and in parts of Hawaii. Researchers also blame some pesticides and various environmental changes for the phenomenon dubbed “Colony Collapse… -
Your stunning Hawaii photo could win a free Maui vacation for two from HAWAII Magazine
17 Jun 2013 | 5:31 amYour stunning Hawaii photo could win a free Maui vacation for two from HAWAII Magazine Do you have an amazing Hawaii photograph? One that captures the breathtaking beauty of our lush landscapes and shorelines. Or a memorable moment depicting people and culture in the Islands. How about an artistic abstract shot?If so, enter your best photos in HAWAII Magazine’s 15th annual Photo Contest. Your photography could win you a grand-prize six-day/five-night stay at The Kapalua Villas on Maui’s west side, airfare and various other goodies, such as a chic digital camera fitted with a… -
Honolulu Night Market spotlights high-flying motocross, vintage summertime fashion
14 Jun 2013 | 5:56 amHonolulu Night Market spotlights high-flying motocross, vintage summertime fashion When was the last time your Saturday evening included high-flying motocross, reggae beats, and a fashion show, all in one place? How about your choice of sweet and savory French crepes, spicy coconut curries, or Argentinian empanadas? All of these (and more) can be found at Kakaako’s monthly block party, Honolulu Night Market.This Saturday (June 15), and on every third Saturday of the month, Night Market takes over Auahi Street, collaborating with pop-up eateries, local artists and designers, live… -
Hawaii’s Jack Johnson releases new single, premiering songs in pair of acoustic shows
12 Jun 2013 | 8:45 amHawaii’s Jack Johnson releases new single, premiering songs in pair of acoustic shows After a long three years of sitting, waiting, and wishing, Jack Johnson fans are eagerly hitting the play button on the Hawaii singer-songwriter’s new single, I Got You, which was released this week. Recorded at Johnson’s own Mango Tree Studio on Oahu’s North Shore, the song features a breezy, fingerpicking melody and, of course, Johnson’s smooth, heartfelt vocals.The single is the first release from Johnson’s sixth studio album to date, From Here to Now to You, which…
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Civil Beat: Latest Articles, Topic Pages and Discussions
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Working Together for a Zero Waste Future in Hawaii
19 Jun 2013 | 3:01 amGot food scraps? You’re not alone. Americans throw away about 40 percent the food we buy — about 33 million tons each year. That’s $165 billion worth thrown into landfills and incinerators every year. Wasted food is wasted money. It’s time to stop feeding landfills and incinerators and start feeding hungry people and giving back compost to replenish our soils. Waste is an especially critical issue in Hawaii, where trash disposal space is limited and the fragile environment is heavily impacted by marine debris, 80 percent of it from land-based sources. Getting to zero waste is… -
Making Waves: Kelii Akina and The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
19 Jun 2013 | 3:01 amEditor's Note: There's a feeling in Hawaii that people here don't like to rock the boat, to speak up or publicly raise concerns about important issues and possible wrongdoing. How many times have we heard that the nail that sticks up gets pounded down? But public debate and discussion are vital if we are going to make Hawaii a better place for residents and businesses. Today we launch a new series that celebrates and spotlights people and organizations in Hawaii who aren't afraid to make waves. The new leader of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a nonprofit hui focused on public policy, has… -
Hawaii Monitor: Primarily Politics
19 Jun 2013 | 3:01 amThe Democratic Party of Hawaii has taken the politically risky step of asking a federal judge to throw out a provision of the state constitution protecting the “secrecy of voting” and the confidentiality of voters’ party affiliations. The lawsuit filed this week by the Democratic Party of Hawaii challenges the state’s open primary election system, and is creating a very strange spectacle of the dominant political party apparently engaged in a civil war with itself. On one side is the state Democratic Party organization, which hopes to persuade a federal judge that our primary… -
Are Hawaii Kids Equipped for Careers in the Military?
19 Jun 2013 | 3:01 amHawaii is home to one of the largest and most powerful military complexes in the world yet fails to produce a large cadre of local kids who are qualified to enter its ranks, according to experts who say declining military eligibility across the country is posing a threat to national security. A report by Mission: Readiness, a national security organization aimed at better preparing kids for military careers, shows that more than a third — 38 percent — of local high schoolers who took the military entrance exam in 2010 failed, placing Hawaii in last place along with Mississippi. -
Earmarks 2.0: Plenty of Swag for Hawaii In Defense Bills
19 Jun 2013 | 3:01 amWASHINGTON, D.C. — The end of earmarks and the loss of Hawaii’s senior U.S. senators might well have led to something bordering on an economic catastrophe for the islands, but the defense funding bills moving through Congress contain a fair amount of swag for a state that has long enjoyed its pork. Last week, the House passed a bill with more than $400 million in military construction money. At the same time the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a bill for a similar amount, and it is headed to the full chamber. The House version, pushed by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, includes $72 million…
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Dem lawsuit: Bold strategy or self-inflicted injury?
19 Jun 2013 | 10:29 amMy column over at Civil Beat this morning takes a look at the lawsuit filed by the Democratic Party of Hawaii challenging the state’s “open primary” election system (“Hawaii Monitor: Primarily Politics“). However the intricacies of constitutional law play out in the courtroom, the political case for taking this action is far from persuasive, and has been hotly debated within the party for years. The move to create additional barriers to voting in primary elections also runs counter to a pretty strong political current favoring ease of voter access, including… -
California: “Can you say adios to the right to know?”
18 Jun 2013 | 10:59 amCalifornia’s in danger of moving much of government out of the sunshine, according to critics of two budget-related bills awaiting the governor’s signature. And that’s dangerous because other states less than enthusiastic about encouraging the public’s right to know may be encouraged to follow a similar course. The “say adios” quote comes from columnist Jeff Mitchell, writing for TheCalifornian.com, who used it as the headline of a column describing the measures critics fear would allow local jurisdictions to essentially opt out of the state’s public… -
Grants and contracts awarded nonprofit agencies can raise red flags
17 Jun 2013 | 10:54 amGiven the ongoing questions raised by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding the city’s administration of grants to a central Oahu nonprofit agency, a recent report by the Center for Public Integrity should be required reading (“State legislators’ ties to nonprofit groups prove fertile ground for corruption“). According to the report: Since 2010, at least eight New York lawmakers or their related charities have been investigated, charged or convicted of pillaging public funds. Earlier this year, former state Sen. Shirley Huntley pleaded guilty…
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nerd's eye view
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Some Things About My Dad
16 Jun 2013 | 7:52 amI’m not sure about the date on this photo — my Dad served in Korea and he’s in uniform here. The signs are in English, so he must be flying outbound. It might be the early 50s, he’d have been maybe 21 years old at the time. Forgotten, but Not Gone: I wrote this after seeing my Dad for the last time in December 2011. He died in December 2012. This is my first Father’s Day without him. Waning Moon, Waikiki: Losing my Dad was… complicated. I did not go to the funeral. A Eulogy for my Dad: My brother read this at my Dad’s service, I was so pleased when he… -
Post-Modern Medieval
7 Jun 2013 | 5:25 pmThe historic main square in Frankfurt is a pretty cobbled place. There are buildings on three sides with black or red timbered faces. There are cast iron sign brackets and from them hang attractive shields emblazoned with the names of traditional German restaurants, the wine cellar, the Black Star, the Stone House. City hall is here and newly married couple after couple appear in front of the traditional ornate facade with their happy families and friends. There is a fountain into which you may toss your change and a tourist information office where you can get a walking map for 50 cents and… -
TBEX 2013: Less is So Much More
4 Jun 2013 | 10:21 amHere’s the truth: I attended only two sessions at TBEX this year: writer Mike Sowden’s storytelling talk and the live recording of Gary Arndt, Jen Leo, and Chris Christensen’s This Week in Travel featuring Spud Hilton, the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle as the guest. I regret missing two talks, Lola Akinamade’s photography talk (Lola recently signed with National Geographic) and Erik Lindbergh’s keynote, but my regrets are pretty minimal, less so since catching up with Lola in the Toronto airport on Monday morning at daybreak. During the conference, I… -
Advice for Writers
31 May 2013 | 6:00 amI’m lucky to be connected to some great writers and they’ve agreed to share their advice with the folks who attended the writing workshop at TBEX 13 in Toronto. Download it here and believe it, every word of it is true and useful and will make you better at what you do. And if some of these links take you places that haven’t been updated for a while, don’t be fooled into thinking it’s because they’re not writing. Nope. They’re doing work for good money elsewhere, putting all that hard earned knowledge into making a living. They’re bad asses. -
Foundations
28 May 2013 | 7:33 amIn preparation for TBEX 2013 (the Travelblog Exchange conference in Toronto, Canada) I’ve been rereading some things I wrote about blogging and the state of travel writing online. I’ve compiled that stuff here — all vanity links, all inside baseball – so if you’re curious about where I stand, this collection of essays pretty much spells it out. Stubbornly Clinging to the Organic Web I want more readers. I see this as fundamentally different than traffic. Traffic is an anonymous clot of vehicles on the information superhighway. Readers, they’re hanging out…
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Honolulu Business News - Local Honolulu News | Pacific Business News of Honolulu
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Landowner changes plans for Maui megamall to mixed-use project
19 Jun 2013 | 10:29 amA proposed 700,000 square-foot retail center on Maui called the Maui Outlets and Piilani Promenade is being taken over by its Texas-based landowner, which plans to change the project's concept to a mixed-use development for commercial and residential use. The Maui News reports Charlie Jencks, representing landowners Sarofim Realty Advisors, said the new concept for the project would have "business and commercial type uses," and about 200 units of affordable and market-rate housing. In February,… -
Turtle Bay Resort plan challenged by Defend Oahu Coalition
19 Jun 2013 | 10:16 amThe Defend Oahu Coalition has filed a motion asking the Hawaii Land Use Commission to hold a hearing on whether a nearly 30-year-old plan to expand the Turtle Bay Resort should be invalidated. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the organization had filed a similar motion in 2008 but LUC members didn't garner enough votes for a decision. In April 2010, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that a 1985 environmental impact statement was only valid until 2000. Since then, the property's owners have filed… -
RLJ Lodging Trust buys 99-year lease on Courtyard by Marriott Waikiki Beach
19 Jun 2013 | 10:12 amRLJ Lodging Trust is buying the leasehold interest in the Courtyard by Marriott Waikiki Beach for $73.5 million rom Highgate Holdings Inc., which bought the 399-room hotel in April for $127 million. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports Bethesda, Md.-based RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE: RLJ) is buying a 99-year lease note property from Highgate, which will continue to manage the property. The cash purchase marks RLJ's entry into the Hawaii market. We are excited to increase our presence in the west and… -
Defense spending bill carrying $400 million for Hawaii heads for Senate vote
19 Jun 2013 | 9:02 amThe more than $400 million in military construction spending for Hawaii contained in the national defense spending bill for the 2014 fiscal year includes such projects as a command and control facility at the Army’s Fort Shafter, a submarine support facility at Pearl Harbor and an aircraft hangar at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay. The 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, which passed the Senate Armed Services Committee late last week and is headed to the full Senate for a vote,… -
Honolulu agency releases rail transit station renderings, plans public meetings
18 Jun 2013 | 8:36 pmThe Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation on Tuesday released renderings of three proposed rail station designs, and it plans to hold a series of public meetings next week to gather input on the designs. HART officials, including Executive Director and CEO Dan Grabauskas and Board Chairwoman Carrie Okinaga, along with Mayor Kirk Caldwell and Honolulu City Councilman Breene Harimoto, unveiled a model of the West Loch station at a news conference in Waipahu, where the meeting to discuss that…
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Pulpconnection
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I’m Getting a Trenta
19 Jun 2013 | 10:27 amAssuming the Trenta size still exists, I’m gonna get a Trenta-sized drink from Starbucks before they put up their new menus showing calories. Yeah, I know the nutritional information is already available online or via the Starbucks app, but seeing the calories right in front of you is more sobering. Trenta up!Similar Posts: Short, Tall, Grande, Venti, Trenta? Trenta Up! Got iPhone, Get Trenta -
Scratch Magic Draw
19 Jun 2013 | 12:26 amFun for ages 5 to 95. Acid and lignin free. Make sure you get the “boards” versus the sheets. Lots of complaints that the sheets are just too thin, making them easy to mar simply by handling them. Buy the Scratch Art Magic Draw. Similar Posts: My iWeb Observations #2 Playing Around with Animoto CloudFlare Clouding Pulpconnection? -
Making the Sony HT-CT260 Sound Bar Work with Oceanic Cable
18 Jun 2013 | 11:00 amMy pops wanted better sound to match his HDTV broadcasts from Oceanic Cable. But when The Wire Cutter says no to home theaters in a box and endorses Sony’s HT-CT260 sound bar then you heed their researched advice. Unfortunately, the CT260 was out of stock at Amazon.com. Fortunately, Best Buys in Hawaii just received their shipment, and the regular price is the same as Amazon’s. So there we have it, an instant Father’s Day gift. Now the setup… The Wire Cutter is correct. Setting up the sound bar was easy since the subwoofer is wireless. Configuring the sound bar to work… -
Jay-Z Favoring the Samsung Galaxy
17 Jun 2013 | 2:44 pmWell, there goes the iPhone/iOS hip hop neighborhood. Jay-Z has a new release dropping on July 4, and if you’re a Samsung Galaxy device kind of music lover, then you can download Magna Carta Holy Grail for free. Using the Magna Carta Holy Grail app, the first million Galaxy users can partake of the Holy Grail. Go to http://magnacartaholygrail.com for more info.Similar Posts: What Does the Holy Grail of Kicks Look Like? Air Jordan 11 Madness Apple Setting the Pace -
A Belated Father’s Day Surprise from LEGO
17 Jun 2013 | 10:49 amWell, one day post Father’s Day, but as a LEGO fanatic, do you really care? LEGO VIP members can now purchase the massive Tower of Orthanc from Lord of the Rings. With more than 2300 pieces, it may take the rest of June to finish this set which becomes publicly available starting July. Five minifigures, an Ent, a Great Eagle, and all the black bricks a LEGO Dad will ever need. Tower of Orthanc for LEGO VIPs As part of this early release promotion, you’ll also get a Tower of Orthanc poster, and since this set is $200, it qualifies for the free Superman Jor-El minifigure.
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Soul Travelers 3
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Shanghai - Louis Vuitton - Chinese Luxury Shopping
17 Jun 2013 | 3:13 amShanghai - Louis Vuitton - Chinese Luxury ShoppingShanghai is a very impressive city, but some how we didn't expect all the western style luxury and Shanghai is a very impressive city, but some how we didn't expect all the western style luxury and shopping like this Louis Vuitton store. We should have known because Shanghai has long been a haven of international shopping and China is the world’s largest luxury market. Yet, it is not the typical image for most of China. We aren't into consumerism and actually more comfortable bargaining at the markets in China or shopping the… -
European Charming Customs
15 Jun 2013 | 10:47 amEuropean Charming CustomsOne of the joys of a European vacation is exploring by walking around and absorbing the many One of the joys of a European vacation is exploring by walking around and absorbing the many European charming customs that are different than at home. We've spent about 7 years in Europe on our world tour, usually traveling by campervan, but sometimes trains, bikes, buses.or hiking. Mostly though, we walk Europe ( just as we walk Asia) as we like experiencing the world from ground level and slow travel. One habit in Europe that I enjoy observing is bedding airing out via… -
Father - Daughter Relationships
13 Jun 2013 | 8:36 amFather - Daughter RelationshipsAs we celebrate Father's Day this Sunday, I think about what I learned from my father and the As we celebrate Father's Day this Sunday, I think about what I learned from my father and the magnificent father -daughter relationship that we have given to our beloved daughter Mozart, by choosing to take the risk of retiring early to travel the world these last almost 8 years. ( As well as Mom & daughter bonding time too)."That evidence shows that a father's relationship with his daughter is one of the key determinants in a woman's ability to… -
Best Beijing Travel Tip- Fun for the Whole Family
11 Jun 2013 | 3:30 amBest Beijing Travel Tip- Fun for the Whole FamilyChina is an amazing place for a family vacation and our best Beijing kid-friendly tip is China is an amazing place for a family vacation and our best Beijing kid-friendly tip is to dress up Emperor style and fly around the top attractions! We so enjoyed our month in China for Mandarin immersion and cultural adventures to add more Mandarin fluency for our multilingual child. What a thrill to visit China for the first time with a fluent trilingual kid who could lead the way ( and surprised many locals). We loved the Chinese school in… -
Yummy, Healthy Chips Recipe
9 Jun 2013 | 2:20 amYummy, Healthy Chips RecipeDo you know how easy it is to make delicious healthy chips? If you are into healthy Do you know how easy it is to make delicious healthy chips? If you are into healthy organic food like we are, you will skip the packaged, processed potato chips that are full of dangerously unhealthy fats and let your kid make her own! She made these from root veggies like tunips, sweet potatoes and beets. Scrumptious...better than the one's we use to buy at Trader Joes in California and much cheaper too.It's a wonderfully fun homeschool project that Mozart likes to do on…
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Everyone's Blog Posts - TechHui
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$zend_framework crack
17 Jun 2013 | 12:39 amWatch out for a new server infection. No one is sure but it is thought it begins with brute force guessing of a wordpress login. Then every php file is prepended with: <?php $zend_framework="\x63\162\x65\141\x74\145\x5f\146\x75\156\x63\164\x69\157\x6e"; @error_reporting(0); $zend_framework( ... This apparently inserts a malicious snippet of java into your wordpress pages - that you do not see but which infects the user's computer. At the same time, blank users are created for wp-admin with "administrator" privileges. Since every #$*! .php file on your host is infected with this, you… -
The New Utopia
14 Jun 2013 | 7:30 pmI love to travel, and over time I have had the good fortune to visit a couple of dozen countries around the world. One thing I noticed from country to country was a correlation between the wealth distribution among its populace and the overall stability of the nation. It seemed the happiest and most stable countries had a relatively strong middle class, while nations with highly concentrated wealth amongst a tiny few stood on shakier ground. This is not surprising; if the average Joe is better off then the country on average is better off. Most people can get behind this: spreading the wealth… -
Job Opening: High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) seeking an Executive Director & CEO
13 Jun 2013 | 4:30 pmHigh Technology Development Corporation Executive Director Job Posting The High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) is an agency of the State of Hawaii, responsible for promoting and advancing technology-based economic development in Hawaii, including manufacturing. It develops and manages incubation facilities and business assistant programs and serves as a community organizer for all islands, as well as overseeing a variety of federally-funded programs. Activities that serve the HTDC’s mission can be divided into 3 distinct areas: policy, public infrastructure, and business… -
Start Free and then Scale
31 May 2013 | 10:30 pmYou have the latest and greatest idea for a web application. You tell your friends and colleagues, and put together a small team to get the idea rolling. Your programmer, a Ruby on Rails guy, develops a prototype of the web application that works on his machine. You want access to it to show it off, and put it in front of users to get feedback. Even though you believe in your idea, there's a part of you that's not "all in". You don't want to dig into your wallet and pay to host it. Not yet anyway. Fortunately there are many options. A popular solution for systems built using Ruby on Rails… -
Online Class On "Matchmoving in 3D Equalizer"
30 May 2013 | 12:46 amAs part of CG Workshops, I'll be teaching a course on camera tracking for feature films and broadcast post-production utilizing a 3D Equalizer to Maya to Nuke workflow. "Matchmoving in 3D Equalizer" will be an 8-week fully mentored course that begins on June 24 and will be exclusively offered on the cgsociety.com website. Full temporary licenses of 3D Equalizer tracking software will be available for every registered student for the duration of the class. Here is the link to the course page: http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courseinfo.php?id=400
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Ukulele Underground
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Uke Lesson 66 – What I Got (Sublime)
31 May 2013 | 7:29 pmPlay along with Aldrine on the “What I Got” Ukulele Play-Along! Hey UUers! Summer is officially here so we are kicking off the summertime sizzle with a little Sublime! A bunch of you were asking about this song, so here it is – a complete Uke Lesson (+ Play-Along) for “What I Got” by Sublime. Check it out to learn the chords, strumming pattern, finger picking pattern, and picking for this song and let us know what you think! Hope you have an awesome start to your summer – keep jammin’ that uke of yours, be sure to bring it along when you run to the… -
Uke Lesson 65 – Wagon Wheel (Darius Rucker / Old Crow Medicine Show)
1 May 2013 | 2:16 amPlay along with Aldrine on the “Wagon Wheel” Ukulele Play-Along! Hey UUers! Another month is rollin’ on in and, with it, another episode of Uke Lessons! This time we bring you the awesomely fun tune, “Wagon Wheel“ by Old Crow Medicine Show (though ours is a little closer to the cover version by Darius Rucker). Check out the video for a step-by-step tutorial on how to hold the Chords, strum the Strumming Pattern, and pick the Picking for this song on your trusty ukulele! For the Play-Along, we’ve enlisted the help of our good friend and UU Forum mod… -
Uke Lesson 64 – Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi)
2 Apr 2013 | 2:30 amPlay along with Aldrine on the “Wanted Dead or Alive” Ukulele Play-Along! Hey UUers! THANK YOU to everyone who played along with (and liked on Facebook) our utterly ridiculous April Fools’ Day prank yesterday. And now for this month’s real episode of Uke Lessons – “Wanted Dead or Alive” by Bon Jovi! This one comes complete with a pretty fun picking interlude that happens throughout the song. It may take a little while to memorize and get it down, but practice and you’ll have it in no time! Check out the video for the chords, strumming pattern,… -
APRIL FOOLS 2013 – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Ukulele)
1 Apr 2013 | 2:31 amPlay along with Aldrine on the “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Ukulele PLAY-ALONG! >>>*This was an April Fools’ Day joke – Thank You to everyone who liked it and played along! HERE -
Uke Lesson 63 – Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
1 Mar 2013 | 12:52 amPlay along with Aldrine on the “Landslide” Ukulele Play-Along! Hey UUers! A couple of weeks ago, on Aldrine’s Facebook Page, he asked, ‘What song would YOU like to learn for this month’s lesson?’ On it, we saw a lot of great suggestions and one of the repeat responses was “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac. So here it is! Check out the video above for a complete tutorial for the song, with a break down of the chords, fingerpicking pattern, and picking. And once you’ve got them down, don’t forget to play along with Aldrine’s version…
