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• 8 historical figures who ate disgusting things

  Holy Kaw!

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:26 pm

  Before you read this article, you may have thought your dog had the grossest eating habits ever. But Fido's penchant for poo is nothing compared to some of these sickos highlighted in Cracked. For example, Victorian scientist William Buckland: He didn't just stop at the meat of animals, either. While on a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral, a strange mark was found on the floor. A debate broke out as to what the stain could possibly be, at which point Buckland got on his hands and knees, licked the stain and confidently announced it to be bat piss. But the craziest thing Buckland ever did, at…

• Throw Away the Maps

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  ceb

  6 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  People judge us by the path they’ve seen us walk before. They can’t anticipate our future steps. We, ourselves, look to how things have been, what seems to be the lay of the land, without realizing that the maps are not the territory. Want to succeed at work? Then don’t try to do your job. Instead, work towards something larger, more meaningful, and something that blends your convictions internally with your best ability to help others externally. Want to create something new? Then throw away the old, or maybe join two disparate old things together into something new. The…

• Reading lamps made from drilled-out books

  Boing Boing » Gadgets

  Cory Doctorow

  7 Feb 2012 | 11:05 am

  Typewriter Boneyard does a sweet line of reading lamps made from drilled-out old books, fitted with replica Edison bulbs. Hardback Book Lamps (via Neatorama)

• TV Listings: Cryojennifer

  The Onion

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pm

  CW 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST Tonight: The beautiful but absentminded Cryojennifer completely messes up a sales report at work, makes the mistake of questioning her sister's weight, and burns a meal she cooks for her boyfriend, realizing once again that the o...

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 9

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  Ken Denmead

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:01 pm

  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

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  Holy Kaw!

• 8 historical figures who ate disgusting things

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:26 pm

  Before you read this article, you may have thought your dog had the grossest eating habits ever. But Fido's penchant for poo is nothing compared to some of these sickos highlighted in Cracked. For example, Victorian scientist William Buckland: He didn't just stop at the meat of animals, either. While on a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral, a strange mark was found on the floor. A debate broke out as to what the stain could possibly be, at which point Buckland got on his hands and knees, licked the stain and confidently announced it to be bat piss. But the craziest thing Buckland ever did, at…

• 5 explanations of why teenagers act the way the do

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:22 pm

  Understanding the teenage mind could be a life's work. For those of you who don't have that kind of time, however, Mental Floss gives five things that could explain the mind of the teenager. For example, parents, have you ever wondered if your teenager is somehow getting dumber? Parents of teens often wonder what happened to the bright child they used to have. How can someone go from getting A’s to getting C’s when they seem to be doing the same amount of work? Once again, changes in the brain are to blame. While the merits of IQ tests are debatable, scientists used to think IQ…

• Surviving the loss of a star employee

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:16 pm

  Some groups have stellar members who carry the team. That's all well and good until that member leaves. Then what? This Smartblog video will help you answer that question: Full story at Smartblog on Leadership. Top news for leaders. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• Disneyland circa 1957 [video]

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:14 pm

  This video was shot in 1957, less than two years after Disneyland had opened. The footage is newly restored and ready to take you to the happiest place on earth as it was in its early days.  Full story at Mental Floss. All the top Internet videos in one place. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• People unplugging their TVs during the Super Bowl

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:08 pm

  There's no faster way to ruin an American's day than to unplug his or her TV during the Super Bowl. Think we're exaggerating? Take a look at these folks go form 0 to 60 in less than a second, all thanks to Jimmy Kimmel's latest Challenge.  Full story at Jimmy Kimmel Live. Top sports news. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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• Throw Away the Maps

  ceb

  6 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  People judge us by the path they’ve seen us walk before. They can’t anticipate our future steps. We, ourselves, look to how things have been, what seems to be the lay of the land, without realizing that the maps are not the territory. Want to succeed at work? Then don’t try to do your job. Instead, work towards something larger, more meaningful, and something that blends your convictions internally with your best ability to help others externally. Want to create something new? Then throw away the old, or maybe join two disparate old things together into something new. The…

• The Next Social Networks

  ceb

  5 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  The rage in social networks right now is Pinterest, partly because it’s probably the first social network that has a much higher adoption rate by females than males, and partly because it’s an interesting concept: somewhere between visual social bookmarking and scrapbooking. What also might not be immediately obvious is that it’s just “easier” to interact there. In that way, Pinterest has something in common with Instagram, which is community around photos. What I’m interested in, though, is Gentlemint, which I keep calling “Pinterest for…

• Learn From Adele – Build Your Platform

  ceb

  3 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  Jacq and I just watched Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall (amazon affiliate link), and though every song was just wonderfully done, I found myself fascinated by what Adele was doing in between each song. Because even though most people would be interested in hearing her belt out her amazing repertoire of hits, what I took away from the performance was Adele’s real magical ability: the ability to resonate with her audience. What Adele Could Teach You About Impact I’m writing something about this right now for my upcoming book with Julien Smith, but I had to share some of the…

• Rob Gokee is a Musical Wizard

  ceb

  2 Feb 2012 | 8:05 am

  I had such a great experience working with award winning musical composer Rob Gokee. We did some musical work together, and the process was so amazing. Rob helped me create my theme song for Shhh! The Secret Show. So anyhow, he and I sat down to do an interview, and it’s a bit long, but it’s totally worth it. We talk about what collaboration feels like at a distance, what it takes to get music like this made for your own show, and a lot more. Rob’s a hero to me, and has been part of the community for a while. I was so fortunate to have worked with him. Can’t see the…

• Build Your Platform – Start

  ceb

  30 Jan 2012 | 1:30 am

  The following is part ONE of a series called Build Your Platform. If you find it interesting, please consider subscribing for free to get the rest of the series. This post is long. You might want to bookmark it for later. The age of social media oversaturation is upon us. People are declaring Twitter bankruptcy to go along with their email bankruptcy. They cite not wanting to start on yet another social network as their reason for not getting more involved with Google+. And just as soon as you start getting into Pinterest, you hear about Path, but wait: there’s Gentlemint, which is…

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  Boing Boing » Gadgets

• Reading lamps made from drilled-out books

  Cory Doctorow

  7 Feb 2012 | 11:05 am

  Typewriter Boneyard does a sweet line of reading lamps made from drilled-out old books, fitted with replica Edison bulbs. Hardback Book Lamps (via Neatorama)

• Circus Galop: the bonkers, non-human-playable anthem used to stress-test automatic pianos

  Cory Doctorow

  3 Feb 2012 | 7:42 am

  Here's a video of a mechanical piano performing Circus Galop (sic), a composition created to test the performance of automatic pianos and other instruments. It apparently can't be played by humans. a single, two-handed human. Circus Galop is a piece for player piano written by Marc-André Hamelin. It was composed between 1991 and 1994 and it is dedicated to Beatrix and Jürgen Hocker, piano roll makers. Its duration is approximately 4–5 minutes.[1] Scores of this piece are available through the Sorabji Archive.[1] Piano rolls of this piece are available from Wolfgang Heisig and Jürgen…

• Test-tube chandeliers, named for Marie Curie

  Cory Doctorow

  3 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  Named for Marie Curie, this line of Maria S.C. chandeliers from Poland's Gangdesign uses test-tubes as pendants that can be planted with sprigs or flowers. Here's the sell-copy, Google Translated from Polish to English: This chandelier is made of tubes. It consists of two modules of different sizes, which can occur together or separately. Shape refers to the traditional forms of Art Deco, and the name is an allusion to the person of Maria Sklodowska Curie. "Maria" gives a wide field for the visual experiment. Version of the reel allows free lowering "Maria" to change the arrangement. Maria…

• Mechanical Elephants in America

  Cory Doctorow

  3 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am

  Here's a fascinating history of Frank Stuart's Mechanical Elephants, a line of life-sized, rideable elephant automata that were sold to department stores and amusement parks in America in the 1950s. "Cybernetic animal and early robot" historian Reuben Hoggett has collected early print mentions of the Stuart elephants and traced their destiny through the rest of the century. The Billboard 21 Jan 1956 WORKLOAD STILL HEAVY FOR SEARCHLIGHT FIRM NEW YORK. Jan 14.- The huge mechanical elephant owned by Publicity Searchlight Company will earn a raft of publicity for the firm during the next two…

• Toy-sized quadrotors flying in formation

  Cory Doctorow

  1 Feb 2012 | 11:00 am

  Researchers from GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania developed software to allow toy-sized nano quadrotors to fly in tight, precise and eerie formation. Gmoke sez, "William Gibson dreams of a mass of these things comprising a flying skyscraper. I imagine them as surveillance and policing drones ready to stop the OWS action or Arab Spring before it can start." A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (Thanks, Gmoke!)

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  The Onion

• TV Listings: Cryojennifer

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pm

  CW 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST Tonight: The beautiful but absentminded Cryojennifer completely messes up a sales report at work, makes the mistake of questioning her sister's weight, and burns a meal she cooks for her boyfriend, realizing once again that the o...

• Letters To The Editor: Cloning Update

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:15 pm

  Dear The Onion, Where are scientists at on cloning? Since the sheep it seems like there’s been nothing. Paul Goethe, Rochester, NY

• EL PASO, TX—A cockroach living under the fridge in Nelson and Elizabeth Gebler's kitchen headed to work thinking, "Cockroach’s gotta make a living."

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:00 pm

  EL PASO, TX—A cockroach living under the fridge in Nelson and Elizabeth Gebler's kitchen headed to work thinking, "Cockroach’s gotta make a living."

• Study Reveals Majority Of Suicides Occur While Trying To Put Fitted Sheet On Bed

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pm

  BALTIMORE—According to a study published Monday in Psychological Bulletin, more than 83 percent of suicides take place when an individual is faced with the task of putting a fitted sheet onto a mattress.

• Area Woman Becomes Nation's First Grandma Courtney

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:30 am

  Area Woman Becomes Nation's First Grandma Courtney

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  Wired Top Stories

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 9

  Ken Denmead

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:01 pm

  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

• GigaOM Acquires PaidContent: Interview With GigaOM CEO Paul Walborsky

  Tim Carmody

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:30 pm

  Om Malik's GigaOM has purchased media news organization ContentNext, paidContent's parent company, from the UK's Guardian News & Media.

• Purported Pictures of iPad 3's Rear Casing Emerge

  Christina Bonnington

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pm

  The launch of Apple's next iPad is just around the corner, if the presence of leaked parts images are any indicator. Today, what reasonably seems to be the rear casing of the new iPad has popped up in photo form on the interwebs.

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gregory Brothers, ACLU Team for Video on Photographers' Rights

  Scott Thill

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:10 pm

  Benjamin Franklin kicks an informative and hilarious rhyme about transparency and First Amendment protections for pro and amateur photographers in the latest video from Joseph Gordon-Levitt?s open collaborative production company, hitRECord.

• Researchers Build Hard Drive of Future With Lasers

  Caleb Garling

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm

  A team of researchers from across Europe and Asia has demonstrated a way of using laser heat to store data rather than magnetic fields, potentially increasing the speed of your hard drive by 100 times or more. Tom Ostler -- a physicist at the University of York, which led the research project -- tells Wired that this could not only allow allow your machine to save files much faster, but also reduce the machine's power consumption by avoiding traditional magnetic storage techniques.

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  TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends

• Romantic Eco Utensils - The Heart Part is a Cute Biodegradable Eating Tool (TrendHunter.com)

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:26 am

  (TrendHunter.com) Great for parties or whenever you need a utensil on the go, Heart Part is an eating tool that offers a fork, knife and scoop in one. Created in the shape of a heart, this cute utensil is also eco-friendly...

• Nikhil Arora, Co-Founder of Back to the Roots (INTERVIEW) - DIY Grow Your Own Organic Mushroom Kits (TrendHunter.com)

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:11 am

  (TrendHunter.com) Not long ago we featured Back to the Roots, a social business whose products you may have seen at Whole Foods or another wellness-focused retailer. The company was founded by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil...

• Emily Hill, Founder of Stop Traffick Fashion (INTERVIEW) - Empowering Employment for Women (TrendHunter.com)

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:01 am

  (TrendHunter.com) Stop Traffick Fashion is a social enterprise dedicated to offering empowering employment opportunities and resources to women who have been affected by prostitution and other forms of human slavery. We've...

• CSR Influencers - 'One Love Network' Empowers Consumers to Impact Social Good Budgets (TrendHunter.com)

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:48 am

  (TrendHunter.com) One Love Network is a social business that was pitched as part of the Investing in Good Deals conference during the Social Finance Forum back in December. One Love Network's objective is to empower customers...

• Greening Consultants - 'Synergy Enterprises' Helps Businesses Reach Triple Bottom Line Goals (TrendHunter.com)

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:32 am

  (TrendHunter.com) Synergy Enterprises is a Victoria, British Columbia-based consultancy that works with businesses to help them meet the triple bottom line. “Synergy is a team of experienced consultants providing cost-effective...

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• Groupon's First Earnings Call Missed the Mark, But It May Not Matter

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:28 pm

  Today in its quarterly earnings call, Groupon reported that it did not meet fourth quarter expectations. The company posted a $43 million loss, or $0.08 cents per share. Despite the loss, Groupon's revenue in the fourth quarter 2011 grew 194% to $506.5 million, up from $172.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. In fact, the fourth quarter 2011 was the company's first quarter of operating profitability since it opening international operations in the second quarter of 2010. This brings everyone back to the same question: Is the daily deals model a real, legitimate business, or is it just a…

• Daily Wrap: January's List of Apps You Need to See and more

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 pm

  Dan Rowinski rounds up the best apps, in our opinion, of January 2012. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Sponsor New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for January 2012 In what is surely a labor of love, Dan Rowinski combs through the mass of apps released…

• Stop Saying "Finally"

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:50 pm

  FIIIINALLY! Google released a Chrome beta for Android! GODDDDD. What took them so long? All the Ice Cream Sandwich users have been waiting, like, FOREVER! Finally, Tweetbot for iPad came out. I've only been asking them for, like, EIGHT MONTHS! Jeez. Apple fiiiinally released iTunes Match after a whole month, and it didn't even work right! Listen to how this sounds. How do we, the tech bloggers, get away with headlines like this? Where do users get off complaining impatiently about updates to a service that costs them $2.99? Or a free service? Let's have a reality check. Remember how awesome…

• 10 Ways to Win Over Writers

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:00 pm

  As a PR person, product developer, CEO or whatever, you're probably more interested in getting noticed by the media than developing a relationship with a particular writer. That's one way to go about it. Then there's that old-fashioned "building a relationship with a real person not a robot" idea. You know, treating people like people and taking the time to get to know them. Oh right, yeah, forgot about that. Writers, like artists, are sensitive to ideas and people. But not every writer will get you or your product - and in the tech world as in any world, each writer has their own…

• Nginx Continues Growth, Adds Commercial Offerings

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pm

  According to the Netcraft Web Server Survey for February 2012, Nginx was "the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month" by picking up 0.27 percentage points. Good news for the upstart Web server, just as the brand-new company behind Nginx takes the wraps off its commercial packages. Nginx has had quite the growth spurt over the past year. In February of last year Nginx had 7.57% of the market, or about 21 million domains hosted with Nginx. Microsoft had 20.04%, or about 57 million. Apache was at 60.10%, with more than 171 million domains. Sponsor…

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• Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am

  Over the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are…

• Design a Sam Adams beer

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am

  Now this is a fun project. I’m helping Sam Adams “tap” the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and designing your beer: The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored

• How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm

  This is the third post in my Microsoft partnership, and it’s all about numbers. The topic is crafting your financial forecast to include in your pitch. Bill Reichert, my partner at Garage Technology Ventures, created an Excel model and wrote this blog post. There’s a lesson in this too: Get the best person for the job. His grasp of financial models and how to present them exceeds mine by two orders of magnitude. The Purpose of Financial Projections When it comes to financial projections, there are two types of entrepreneurs: first, the “visionary entrepreneur” who…

• How to Create an Enchanting Business Plan #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am

  Here is the second post in my series about planning, pitching, and launching a new business venture. In partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve created a Word document that outlines a good business plan. It’s saved to my SkyDrive folder here. Feel free to download it and use it as inspiration. And if you’re working with a partner, you can use the free Word Web App to stay in sync. I provided the PowerPoint document before the Word document because a good business plan is an elaboration of a good pitch as opposed to a good pitch being a distillation of good business plan.

• How to Create an Enchanting Pitch #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  9 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am

  Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts I’ll be doing as part of a partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps. Over the next two weeks, I’ll cover everything a budding entrepreneur needs to turn an idea into an enchanting investment opportunity—from the perfect pitch to a killer business plan to financial forecasts. I’m going to start with a little dissertation on creating effective PowerPoint pitches for your company. I embedded the sample deck for you to click through by using the PowerPoint Web App. When you’re ready to get started, you can download the…

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  Mashable!

• Google Chrome Update Brings Faster Browsing

  Stan Schroeder

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:12 am

  The new stable release of Google’s web browser Chrome brings several improvements, most importantly faster browsing and more protection from malicious downloads. From now on, when you start typing in Chrome’s address box (or omnibox, as Google calls it), as soon as Chrome autocompletes the URL you’re likely to visit, it will prerender the page, making your overall browsing experience faster. As far as security goes, Chrome now does checks on executable files you’ve downloaded from the net. It matches the executables against a whitelist – a list of programs known…

• ‘Bachelor’ Contestant Courtney Gets Auto-Tuned [VIDEO]

  Samantha Murphy

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:19 pm

  Fans of The Bachelor are all too familiar with this season’s over-the-top contestant Courtney, who makes snide comments at the camera and likes to take off her bikini top. Now, a video has popped up on YouTube that has turned some of her signature phrases — from “Winning!” to “I do modeling” — into a catchy Auto-Tune clip. The contestants are vying for a rose from winemaker Ben, and Courtney has rubbed many of them the wrong way, and this video shows why. This is not the first time YouTube users have turned pop culture moments into Auto-Tuned videos.

• Facebook Talks About Social Games and Mobile Apps for 2012

  Kate Freeman

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:09 pm

  Facebook revealed its roadmap for social games and mobile apps for the rest of the year at the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference on Wednesday in San Francisco — and it’s good news for app developers. Want to create an app for Facebook’s Open Graph? The mobile space presents a huge opportunity to create cross-platform social games, said Carl Sjogreen, director of product management at Facebook, who spoke to a packed conference center filled with IT insiders about Facebook’s projections for the mobile social gaming and app space for this year. “You sort of had to…

• What Digital Non-Profits Can Learn From Companies Like Google

  Daniel Atwood

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:46 pm

  Daniel Atwood works with organizations in the social sector to craft meaningful experiences for customers and constituents, and to find innovative product, campaign and messaging ideas in unexpected places. We live in a world where new digital products are solving problems daily — from managing our finances to remembering the groceries. Often, they’re solving problems we didn’t know we had, like the need to connect several times a day in 140 characters or less. Occasionally, they’re creating new problems (but that’s a topic for another conversation). What…

• Comment and Highlight on Websites with commentto

  Alissa Skelton

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:30 pm

  The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: commentto Quick Pitch: Comment anywhere. Genius Idea: Commentto is a browser add-on service that allows users to highlight, bookmark, comment, save and share bookmarks and excerpts on websites. Do you ever want to add extra knowledge to a news story or other content on the web? Well, browser add-on commentto lets you comment on anything you want. Commentto allows users to highlight…

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• FIGHTING THE ELEPHANT - Ray William Johnson Video

  7 Feb 2012 | 7:21 pm

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  7 Feb 2012 | 2:52 pm

  LINDSAY LOHAN AS TALENTED AS PROP 8 IS CONSTITUTIONAL!! Check out today's SourceFed!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIosqbTnzc&list=PL8F30E917C5D2E4D4 FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/mqpRW7 TWITTER: http://Twitter.com/PhillyD Philly D OFFICIAL APP: http://bit.ly/aIyY0w ---------------------------- ALL of today's Stories: Motorcycle Circus Crash: http://gizmo.do/wtFsMD Lilyhammer Netflix Launch: http://gaw.kr/yIhQQb Machete Sequel?? http://bit.ly/x8GcAC New Spiderman Trailer: http://chzb.gr/zL5dwi Best. Bet. Ever: http://bit.ly/wuK5Pf Lindsay Lohan Photos: http://gaw.kr/xAWWoc Jessica…

• Minecraft - The Tourist - Part 1, The Basilica

  7 Feb 2012 | 2:13 pm

  Minecraft - The Tourist - Part 1, The Basilica The boys have a much needed holiday in France, but they fall asleep on the tour bus and things... er... well, they take a turn for the worse. As usual. ♪ Music from Kevin Macleod "Agnus Dei X" "Chromatic Fantasia" "Spring Thaw" http://www.incompetech.com https://yogscast.com/showthread.php?46450-ADV-PUZ-THE-TOURIST-an-amazing-adventure-in-PARIS Editing by Hannah: http://www.youtube.com/yogscast2 ● Yogscast Gear: http://yogscast.spreadshirt.co.uk/ ● Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yogscast ●…

• God Bless America Trailer HD

  7 Feb 2012 | 11:41 am

  God Bless America Trailer HD Starring: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Larry Miller, Melinda Page Hamilton, Geoff Pierson Director: Bob Goldthwait Studio: Magnet Releasing Genre: Comedy / Drama Rating: NR Running Time: 1 hour 39 minutes Release Date: May 11, 2012 Official Site: http://www.facebook.com/godble... SYNOPSIS: Loveless, jobless and possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and decides to off the stupidest, cruelest and most repellent members of society with an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy,…

• Giants Parade FAIL. What Giants player do you want to see? ... SANCHEZZZZZZZZZ!

  7 Feb 2012 | 9:34 am

  Giants Parade FAIL. What Giants player do you want to see? ... SANCHEZZZZZZZZZ! Girl says the Giants player she wants to see is Sanchez ... SMH SHE FOLLOWS IT UP WITH SAYING PEYTON LMAOOOOO DISGRACEFUL. I guess when you win the Superbowl everyone becomes a fan. From: WHYTEWUNDER Views: 749914 663 ratings Time: 00:26 More in Sports

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• 16 Misquoted Quotations

  Mark Nichol

  7 Feb 2012 | 8:09 pm

  Many quotations attributed to famous people are at best paraphrases — though often superior to the original. Others might be subtly altered in the retelling, sometimes with little impact on their effect, at other times irresponsibly changing the meaning. Here is a selection of well-known sayings or writings that aren’t quite accurate (followed by a couple that are but are mistakenly identified as erroneous): 1. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” This quotation attributed to Gandhi is a later invention by an unknown person, likely inspired by the following passage: “As…

• 50 Synonyms for “Idea”

  Mark Nichol

  7 Feb 2012 | 2:47 am

  What’s the big idea? Or, more appropriately, what kind of idea is it? Many ways of expressing the idea of an idea await your consideration; here’s an extensive but not necessarily comprehensive list (including other connotations and meanings of the various synonyms): 1. Abstraction: a theoretical idea; also, the process of abstracting, the condition of being disassociated, an abstract work of art, or the quality of being preoccupied 2. Apprehension: the act or quality of becoming aware or grasping a meaning; also, the act of arresting someone or to a sense of foreboding 3. Assumption: a…

• A Quiz About Missing Connections

  Mark Nichol

  5 Feb 2012 | 8:01 pm

  Writing is often compromised by a writer’s failure to think a sentence through to its logical conclusion. Often, along the way, a small but crucial word or phrase is omitted that leaves a gap in a parallel construction, thereby contributing to the reader’s confusion. In each sentence below, determine the missing element, then check my revisions at the bottom of the page to see how our solutions compare: 1. “The corporation runs hydropower plants from Maine to Montana.” 2. “Because Martinez was so young, it was natural to compare his potential with Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy…

• 75 Synonyms for “Hard”

  Mark Nichol

  3 Feb 2012 | 8:31 pm

  It’s easy to write about how hard something is, because so many synonyms exist for that vague word and its more formal cousin difficult. Many of these terms are somewhat interchangeable (that’s why they call them synonyms), but even then, the senses are often slightly distinct; do a little more research on usage when you find a promising variation for that abstract (or is it abstruse?) phrasing you’re attempting to finesse. 1. Abstract: disassociation from a practical reference that would aid in comprehension 2. Abstruse: difficult because of technical considerations 3. Arduous: great…

• A Quiz on Treatment of 75 Compound Words

  Mark Nichol

  2 Feb 2012 | 8:08 pm

  Open, hyphenated, or closed? Usage guides, dictionaries, and style manuals may differ in their treatment of the following words, so there’s not necessarily one right answer — except for the purposes of this exercise: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. All terms in this list are treated as open compounds. Which ones should be left as is, and which should be hyphenated or closed, and in which usages? The correct forms according to Merriam-Webster are listed at the bottom of the page. 1. Air borne 2. Anti social 3. Audio visual 4. Back log 5. Blood pressure 6. Book keeping 7.

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• How to Succinctly Report a Blog Issue to Tech Support

  Guest Blogger

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:07 am

  This guest post is by Matthew Setter of Malt Blue. How often do you find it happening to you? You discover an issue with your site, or one of your community members emails you to tell you about it, and soon you start to see tweets about it too. Maybe it’s as simple as an error message that detracts from the professional appearance of your site. Perhaps the contact form doesn’t send messages to your contact email address. Or is it that the whole site just displays as a blank page, otherwise known as the white page of death? You’re not a programmer, a software engineer or a seasoned…

• Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger: Part 2

  Guest Blogger

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:05 pm

  This guest post is by Devesh of WP Kube. A few months ago, I wrote a guest post here called How to Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger. Today, I’ll go into some more detailed advice to help you speed up your site even more. If you’re a blogger, you already know about the importance of blog loading speed, and the role it plays in search engine rank and marketing your blog. But if this is new territory for you, here are three quick reasons why you need to speed up your blog: Google includes website loading speed as an important metric in their ranking algorithm. If you want…

• How I Beat my Best Month Ever by Doing Something Good, Better [Case Study]

  Darren Rowse

  7 Feb 2012 | 6:04 am

  Mid-December 2010: on my photography site, we launched a new campaign—our first ever 12 Days of Christmas promotion. The result was my biggest month of earnings ever up to that point. The idea was simple: offer discounts on 12 products over the 12 days leading up to Christmas. I used a mix of my own ebooks and products from other photography sites with affiliate commissions. The result was massive. Not only did we see some great revenue generated, it created some lovely buzz on the site. Due to the success of the 2010 campaign, in mid-December 2011 we launched our second 12 Days of…

• Six Steps to Make Sure Your Site Is Ready to Go Viral

  Guest Blogger

  6 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am

  This guest post is by Nancy Sathre-Vogel of Family on Bikes. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Surely Google Analytics was confusing my site with another, way more popular site. There was no way my visitor numbers could be so high! And yet they were. One of my posts had taken off and was spreading like wildfire. Those viral post phenomena that happen to others were now happening to me. The first day, 17,000 visitors came to my website. The next day we topped out at 56,000. Readers were coming in droves. It was exciting. It was exhilarating. My site, viral! Wow! And then I took a…

• How to Handle Criticism: a Practical Guide

  Darren Rowse

  5 Feb 2012 | 12:03 pm

  Image by Stuart RichardsAs bloggers, each of us has to deal with criticism. Blogging is a very public activity—almost all of us has the goal of gaining readers to our blogs—and the more people you reach, the more likely it is that you’ll hear criticisms. “You’re wrong…” “How can you say that? You don’t know what you’re talking about.” “I couldn’t disagree more…” “This is the last time I read this blog!” These are just some of the criticisms bloggers regularly face—I’ve received versions of…

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  Copyblogger

• The “New” SEO Secret Weapon

  Sonia Simone

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 am

  If you have a web site, you may have noticed one of two things about the traffic you get from search engines. Your search traffic may have dried up overnight, with once-healthy streams turning into a sad little trickle. Or you may have noticed a nice, steady improvement as you’ve climbed higher in the SERPs (search engine results pages), while other sites that used to outrank you suddenly evaporated. There’s a super-secret new ingredient in SEO. It was always a factor, but it’s become even more important recently, as the Google team relentlessly declares war on what they see…

• 8 Quick Tips for Writing Bullet Points People Actually Want to Read

  Robert Bruce

  7 Feb 2012 | 3:00 am

  It’s a Twitterized world, we’re just living in it. Blog posts, Tweets, quick videos, Google+, the Facebook Timeline, and tens of thousands of images pinned to digital boards are flying past us faster than we can read them. Faster than we can even scan them, depending on the time of day. What does this mean for writers trying to cut through it all? At least two things that I can think of: You’d better know how to write a compelling headline You’d better know how to write bullet points that grab (and keep) your reader We’re not telling you to keep your copy short.

• 7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Wildly Successful Guest Post

  The Blog Tyrant

  6 Feb 2012 | 3:00 am

  We all know that guest posts grow blogs. But not many people realize that tactical guest posting grows careers. Most bloggers I see pump out these articles while reciting the mantra “quantity over quality”; there’s no real strategy and there are no real long-term benefits. In this post I am going to show you the seven crucial tactics for writing a radically successful guest post. Done right, these strategies will get you more email subscribers, coveted Google ranking positions, and a big head-start on your content marketing goals. Who am I to teach you about guest blogging?

• 7 Smashing Social Media Marketing Links

  Robert Bruce

  4 Feb 2012 | 3:00 am

  This week on The Lede … What really works on Twitter One thing social media copywriters should never do 9 productive social media hacks A reminder of the power of the original social media If you just can’t wait for The Lede every Saturday, and you want even more practical, useable links than the seven we highlight here every week, follow @copyblogger on Twitter. It’s painless. Really. // 9 Social Media Hacks You Need to Embrace Now Mr. Baer makes a good case that though social media is inexpensive in monetary terms, it can get good and costly when it comes to spending your…

• Whether You Call it Blogging or Not, Online Content Still Rules

  Robert Bruce

  3 Feb 2012 | 5:00 am

  What if most of the business world stopped blogging tomorrow? Would you stop as well? No, if that happened, you’d find yourself sitting on the opportunity of a lifetime. Social networking sites would explode with likes and retweets and pins and +1s of your original content all day long. This is why the annual “blogging is dead” claim is so dumb. Even if it were true, your continued content production would dominate the web in every way. So, instead of worrying about the latest claimed trend or alarming decline of the moment, stay the course. Original content creation is the…

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  How to Change the World

• Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am

  Over the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are…

• Design a Sam Adams beer

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am

  Now this is a fun project. I’m helping Sam Adams “tap” the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and designing your beer: The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored

• How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm

  This is the third post in my Microsoft partnership, and it’s all about numbers. The topic is crafting your financial forecast to include in your pitch. Bill Reichert, my partner at Garage Technology Ventures, created an Excel model and wrote this blog post. There’s a lesson in this too: Get the best person for the job. His grasp of financial models and how to present them exceeds mine by two orders of magnitude. The Purpose of Financial Projections When it comes to financial projections, there are two types of entrepreneurs: first, the “visionary entrepreneur” who…

• How to Create an Enchanting Business Plan #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am

  Here is the second post in my series about planning, pitching, and launching a new business venture. In partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve created a Word document that outlines a good business plan. It’s saved to my SkyDrive folder here. Feel free to download it and use it as inspiration. And if you’re working with a partner, you can use the free Word Web App to stay in sync. I provided the PowerPoint document before the Word document because a good business plan is an elaboration of a good pitch as opposed to a good pitch being a distillation of good business plan.

• How to Create an Enchanting Pitch #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  9 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am

  Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts I’ll be doing as part of a partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps. Over the next two weeks, I’ll cover everything a budding entrepreneur needs to turn an idea into an enchanting investment opportunity—from the perfect pitch to a killer business plan to financial forecasts. I’m going to start with a little dissertation on creating effective PowerPoint pitches for your company. I embedded the sample deck for you to click through by using the PowerPoint Web App. When you’re ready to get started, you can download the…

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  Seth's Blog

• How do they know you're not a flake?

  Seth Godin

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:43 am

  Before your link gets clicked or your proposal gets read, a busy person is going to triage it to find out if it's even worth glancing at. Since everyone is now connected, the new permeability has created a deluge of noise, and just about everyone worth contacting is taking defensive measures. Do I know this person? Did someone I trust send them over? Where does she work? (Ideo? the FDA? The New York Times?) Has she won an award? Is she famous? Are there typos and is the design sloppy? Are they pestering me? Do I already follow this person online? Does music play when I visit the website? Will…

• Horizontal marketing isn't a new idea

  Seth Godin

  7 Feb 2012 | 2:09 am

  But it is the new reality for just about every organization. Vertical marketing means the marketer (the one with money) is in charge. Vertical marketing starts at the top and involves running ads, sending out direct mail and pushing hype through the media. Your money, your plans, your control. It might not work, but generally the worst outcome is that you will be ignored and need to spend more money. Horizonal marketing, on the other hand, means creating a remarkable product and story and setting it up to spread from person to person. It's out of your control, because all the interactions are…

• Who is your customer?

  Seth Godin

  6 Feb 2012 | 2:26 am

  Rule one: You can build a business on the foundation of great customer service. Rule two: The only way to do great customer service is to treat different customers differently. The question: Who is your customer? It's not obvious. Zappos is a classic customer service company, and their customer is the person who buys the shoes. Nike, on the other hand, doesn't care very much at all about the people who buy the shoes, or even the retailers. They care about the athletes (often famous) that wear the shoes, sometimes for money. They name buildings after these athletes, court them, erect…

• In search of a timid trapeze artist

  Seth Godin

  5 Feb 2012 | 2:01 am

  Good luck with that, there aren't any. If you hesitate when leaping from rope to another, you're not going to last very long. And this is at the heart of what makes innovation work in organizations, why industries die, and how painful it is to try to maintain the status quo while also participating in a revolution. Gather up as much speed as you can, find a path and let go. You can't get to the next rope if you're still holding on to this one.

• Will energy consumption stay private?

  Seth Godin

  4 Feb 2012 | 11:45 am

  It's clear that the consumption of energy has external effects that impact more than just the person who is paying for it. Geopolitical, health and economic issues come to the neighbors and nearby citizens of entities that are using a lot of power. It was always straightforward to see who was burning a lot of wood or drove a huge car. It's easy to see when a company has a huge smokestake belching carbon. What happens when sensors make it easy to see how efficient a machine is, how much of a resource is being consumed and how much exhaust is being spewed? What happens when Google maps shows…

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  Andy Sernovitz | Damn, I Wish I\'d Thought of That!

• The Home Depot’s case study: How to bring your culture to life through an online community

  Andy Sernovitz

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pm

  Come to our upcoming BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media conference in Dallas to hear brands like Farmers Insurance, Rogers Communications, Target, Yahoo!, NVIDIA, Hitachi Data Systems, Verizon, and Autodesk share 8 great case studies on corporate social media. You’ll get practical, how-to advice on developing your social strategy, scaling your program, driving sales, engaging internal and external audiences, and measuring it all — and you’ll see some brilliant presentations like this one from BlogWell Atlanta: One of Tia Robinson’s big ideas: Don’t be afraid to let your…

• Why would a music industry visionary be writing passionately about a turtleneck?

  Andy Sernovitz

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  Bob Lefsetz is a well-know music industry guru who covers critical issues for industry insiders. So why did he write 625 words about a turtleneck from Uniqlo? And then email it to his thousands of email subscribers? And why did my friend Josh Dorf email it to me? Not because he was paid. Not because he was part of some cheesy word of mouth advocacy program. Not because the company asked him to. He did it because true word of mouth, driven by authentic enthusiasm for amazing products, is an unstoppable force. Read this classic example of word of mouth in action: Uniqlo Andy couldn’t stop…

• Save the Date: Word of Mouth Crash Course, May 10, Austin

  Andy Sernovitz

  7 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pm

  Big news: We’re bringing back the world’s greatest word of mouth marketing conference: The Word of Mouth Crash Course in Austin on May 10. It’s the original “How to be great at word of mouth marketing” conference: 12 Real-world case studies 12 How-to classes 6 Amazing authors 1 Fast day (Yes, this is the event formerly called Word of Mouth Supergenius. We changed the name to better reflect that you’re going to learn a ton, really fast, while having fantastic fun.) Learn more here: http://wordofmouth.org/crashcourse Important: The first 100 registrants will get 50 copies of new…

• It’s not over when you turn in your homework

  Andy Sernovitz

  7 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  Some advice for recent college graduates entering the corporate world: In college, you finish a paper, you take the test, you get to the end of the semester — and you’re done. You can walk away and move on to the next project. No looking back. At work, it’s the opposite. You win when you take and keep responsibility. You own a project, you see it through, you take responsibility, and you make sure it works great for the long term. When it’s time for you to move on, you are responsible for handing off your knowledge and work to the next owner, and you’re not done…

• Pull up a chair around the fire

  Andy Sernovitz

  3 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am

  The purpose of a trade show booth or tabletop is to get prospective customers to come in an talk to you. You want to have a conversation. But most exhibits do a lot to block that conversation: big TV screens, laptops between the exhibitor and the prospects, or having conversations standing in front of the table so your back is to people walking past. That’s why I like this simple tabletop by Sprinklr. The fireplace catches your attention. The furniture encourages you sit down and have a deep conversation, and the whole arrangement visually draws people in.

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  FreelanceFolder

• Super Easy Timesavers for Super Busy Freelancers

  Laura Spencer

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:51 am

  Like most freelancers, my time is important. I have to spend it wisely if I want to earn a profit. Most days I face a challenging to-do list with more tasks on it than I could possibly accomplish. That’s why I make it my mission to work as quickly and efficiently as possible. The alternative, working extra hours or missing a deadline, is just not acceptable. Of course, a mountain of self-help books, blogs, videos, and other materials already exists to help us learn to manage our time more effectively. The trouble is, like most freelancers, I just don’t have enough time to go…

• David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”: Is It Relevant to Freelancers?

  Lexirodrigo

  6 Feb 2012 | 8:56 am

    I first read “Getting Things Done” (GTD) by David Allen in 2007. Back then, I was working full-time in UNICEF, juggling my work responsibilities with a family. Although I didn’t implement GTD completely, it did allow me to unclutter my entire work area (not just my desk). It allowed me to tame my overflowing email inbox. It allowed me to leave my files neatly organized for my successor. GTD was written for corporate executives and office workers. Is it relevant and useful to freelancers as well? If it’s any indication, I still find myself using some of the…

• Can Pinterest Help Your Freelancing Business?

  Laura Spencer

  3 Feb 2012 | 7:15 am

  If you’re active in social media, you may have recently heard of Pinterest, a new social media site that is gaining popularity. In fact, it seems like everyone is suddenly talking about Pinterest. From all the talk it’s hard to tell whether it’s a trend or a fad. You may even wonder if there is any way that your freelancing business could possibly benefit from using Pinterest. You may be asking yourself whether you should get involved in Pinterest. In this post, I’ll take a look at Pinterest from a freelancer’s perspective. I’ll explain what it is and also…

• The Pros and Cons of a Freelancing Partnership

  Lexirodrigo

  1 Feb 2012 | 7:55 am

  Freelancers usually operate solo, but sometimes it’s a good idea for us to enter into partnerships. As a one-person team, there are only so many clients you can serve, and so many skills you can deliver. A partnership can be a good way to expand your freelancing business. However, as in all things, freelancing partnerships have their advantages and disadvantages. If you’re considering partnering with another freelancer, read this post to see if you really know what you’re getting into. The Pros Provide more comprehensive services Sometimes it makes sense to partner with…

• Plan a Marketing Strategy for your Freelance Career

  Jake Rocheleau

  30 Jan 2012 | 7:31 am

  Going the freelance route can be quite an exhilarating process. You drop the 9-to-5 workday in exchange for a whole lot more freedom and independence. But with this job track also comes the burden of management. Personal branding and marketing is a big part of growing your own freelance business. You need to get your name out there into the world and hopefully reel in a few clients. It can be difficult, but I have offered a few ideas below which can get you off on the right foot. It’s best to plan ahead even with a small marketing strategy. Once you put something in place to get the…

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  How to Change the World

• Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am

  Over the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are…

• Design a Sam Adams beer

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am

  Now this is a fun project. I’m helping Sam Adams “tap” the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and designing your beer: The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored

• How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm

  This is the third post in my Microsoft partnership, and it’s all about numbers. The topic is crafting your financial forecast to include in your pitch. Bill Reichert, my partner at Garage Technology Ventures, created an Excel model and wrote this blog post. There’s a lesson in this too: Get the best person for the job. His grasp of financial models and how to present them exceeds mine by two orders of magnitude. The Purpose of Financial Projections When it comes to financial projections, there are two types of entrepreneurs: first, the “visionary entrepreneur” who…

• How to Create an Enchanting Business Plan #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am

  Here is the second post in my series about planning, pitching, and launching a new business venture. In partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve created a Word document that outlines a good business plan. It’s saved to my SkyDrive folder here. Feel free to download it and use it as inspiration. And if you’re working with a partner, you can use the free Word Web App to stay in sync. I provided the PowerPoint document before the Word document because a good business plan is an elaboration of a good pitch as opposed to a good pitch being a distillation of good business plan.

• How to Create an Enchanting Pitch #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  9 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am

  Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts I’ll be doing as part of a partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps. Over the next two weeks, I’ll cover everything a budding entrepreneur needs to turn an idea into an enchanting investment opportunity—from the perfect pitch to a killer business plan to financial forecasts. I’m going to start with a little dissertation on creating effective PowerPoint pitches for your company. I embedded the sample deck for you to click through by using the PowerPoint Web App. When you’re ready to get started, you can download the…

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  Phil McKinney

• So where did the content for the book come from?

  philmckinney

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:31 am

  With the launch of the book yesterday, there seems to be a lot of interest in the history of how Beyond The Obvious came to be.  It all stared some years back when I took some time off.  During this time, I was challenged by some companies to share how it was that I consistently deliver major innovations across a wide range of industries. The truth was – I didn’t know how I did it.  I just did.  This time of self -reflection allowed me to reverse engineer the process.  The blog, podcast and now the book, are my way of sharing it with you. So what was the key learning?

• I got deep fried by these guys during an interview on the topic of innovation

  philmckinney

  6 Feb 2012 | 10:59 am

  A few weeks past, I was interviewed by the hosts of the Deep Fried Bytes Podcast (Keith & Woody) on the topic of innovation.  The discussion covered everything from how anyone can learn innovation to the role innovation plays in your career. Keith and Woody also drill me about the book, Beyond The Obvious. Listen to me being Deep Fried

• 3 CEOs who get innovation

  philmckinney

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:35 am

  Over my career, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know a number of CEO’s.  The general perception in the market is that CEO’s of public companies are only focused on meeting the quarterly numbers.  The following are 3 CEO’s I’ve had the opportunity to spend meaningful 1:1 time with and who “get it” when it comes to innovation. Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO, DreamWorks Animation One of the biggest challenges for any CEO is the balance of risk and reward when it comes to innovation.  In the case of Jeffrey, his perspective on risk is unique.  During a…

• 3 Mistakes Kodak Made In Their Innovation Strategy

  philmckinney

  19 Jan 2012 | 12:42 pm

  With this morning’s announcement that Kodak would seek bankruptcy protection, I reflected back on how and why it reached this point.  In my opinion, Kodak fell into the same trap that most large, successful and once highly innovative companies get into – how to keep the innovation engine working over the life of the company. So what are the 3 mistakes that Kodak made? Weak innovation portfolio management Like most large successful companies, once they achieve a significant market position, management retreats into a defensive mode.  This includes how they make innovation investments. …

• You are invited to the book launch event

  Allen

  18 Jan 2012 | 7:18 am

  The book launch event for Beyond The Obvious is set for Thursday, February 16th at the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA). The event will begin at noon with Phil being interviewed by John Hollar, the President of the Museum.  He will also be taking audience questions.  Following the event, Phil will be signing books. Kepler’s Books will be on-site selling copies of Beyond the Obvious before and after the event. At the event, Phil will also be revealing a new project he is working. The event is open to the public but registration is required    

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  Scobleizer

• Hacker News vs. Google+

  Robert Scoble

  5 Feb 2012 | 10:20 am

  I might as well have titled this “Hacker News vs Marketers.” Or “Hacker News vs Bloggers.” Or “jerks vs nice people.” But I never participate in Hacker News for a few reasons and I just was faced with these reasons again when I read the responses there to my blog post yesterday. 1. Programmers often have an attitude of “I can code, you can’t, so I am defacto better than you.” This often comes out in Hacker News comments. 2. Programmers love to bash people anonymously and then, in real life, they will come begging for PR for their companies…

• It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web

  Robert Scoble

  4 Feb 2012 | 5:02 pm

  The date was January 3, 2008. Facebook had kicked me off for running a script to try to save the common web. See, I worked with Plaxo to run a simple script. One that would have taken my contacts out of Facebook and put them back into the common web. The script did some very simple things: 1. It grabbed all my friends names. 2. It grabbed all their phone numbers. 3. It grabbed all their email addresses. 4. It gave me a simple CSV file with all that data so I could bring them back to Google, or Microsoft, or anywhere else I wanted to put them. Facebook’s answer was predictable. They shut…

• HTML 5 pushback in San Francisco? Best mobile app designers say yes

  Robert Scoble

  1 Feb 2012 | 3:39 pm

  The new Path? The one that won a Crunchie last night for great design? It’s not done in HTML 5. This morning I saw something new coming soon from Storify. Not done in HTML 5. This morning I visited Foodspotting, which just shipped hot new apps on iOS, Android, and Blackberry. Not done in HTML 5. More and more I’m hearing that designers and developers are ignoring HTML 5, especially for the high end of apps. Why? Well, Path’s founders told me it just isn’t possible to build a great user interface, the way they did it in HTML 5. Storify’s founder told me it…

• Why Facebook will be worth a half trillion by 2015: the mobile and open graph revenue it’s leaving on the table

  Robert Scoble

  1 Feb 2012 | 2:48 pm

  Lots of people think Facebook is overvalued, at about $100 billion (it just released their S1, announcing its IPO). But in talking with developers, like I did with Foodspotting’s founder, Alexa Andrzejewski, and in reading the S1 I see that Facebook has left most of the potential revenue on the table. That makes me think that the folks crying “overvalued” are nuts. Check that interview out, Foodspotting is one of the hottest San Francisco startups, aimed at people who are looking for better places to eat. Here it is from just this morning: See, Mark Zuckerberg is sandbagging…

• 2012 brings a pause in the disruption

  Robert Scoble

  31 Jan 2012 | 4:58 pm

  OK, I’ve been talking with hundreds of geeks from around the world this year at three conferences, CES, DLD, and World Economic Forum. I’m seeing a trend that is worth talking about. What is it? We’re seeing the end of one of the most disruptive ages in human history. I believe that we’re seeing a pause in the disruption. More on that a little later. Just think about all the changes humans have been asked to adopt in the past eight years. Most of us, back then, didn’t carry mobile computers in our pockets. If we did use tablets, like I did, they were expensive,…

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  Doc Searls Weblog

• Live blogging Politics of the Internet

  Doc Searls

  25 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm

  So I’m at Micah Sifry’s Politics of the Internet class at the Kennedy School, and risk live-blogging it (taxing my multitasking abilities…) Some questions in the midst of dialog between Micah (@Mlsif) and the class (#pol-int)… Was there a $trillion “internet dividend” over the old phone system, and was it a cost to the old system? Did the Internet have to happen? Is the IETF‘s “rough consensus and running code” still a prevailing ethos, or methodology? Is it an accident that the rough consensus above is so similar to the #Occupy methods?

• Surf’s up! Look north

  Doc Searls

  24 Jan 2012 | 2:44 pm

  According to this… … the Aurora is on. The Kp Index has hit 5, and a geomagnetic storm is on. Here’s today’s SpaceWeather on the matter. Follow the links there. Bear in mind that the aurora are curtains of light up to a thousand miles high. So if the auroral oval is pushed down over southern Canada (which these storms tend to do), it should still be visible far south across the United States. Current links: Northern Lights over the UK  metofficenews.wordpress.com) An Easy Guide To Observing Aurora  mbcalyn.wordpress.com) Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts :…

• 2025 in 2012

  Doc Searls

  23 Jan 2012 | 4:07 pm

  Marcel Bullinga is a Dutch futurist and author of Welcome to the Future Cloud. Today I got pointed on Twitter to a Q&A with Bullinga by Aaron Saenz at SingularityHub. Interesting stuff. An excerpt: SH: Welcome to the Future Cloud seems to be very supportive of intellectual property (IP) rights and digital rights managements (DRM). Are IP and DRM necessary to the development of a healthy future? MB: Yes and no. The trend is twofold. We will have ironclad ways to protect our data, our virtual sources and our identities. We will wrap our virtual belongings with what I call a Cloud Seal. A…

• PR’s problems, 20 years later

  Doc Searls

  22 Jan 2012 | 8:37 pm

  I was near the end of my career as a PR guy when I wrote the essay below for the January 1992 issue of Upside. Since then Upside has been erased. Some bits of it still persist on the Internet Archive, but nothing before 1996. But I did save my own draft of the piece, and put it up here, back in the mid-90s, where it has remained all but invisible. So I thought it would be fun to surface it now on the blog, on the 20th anniversary of its original publication. Here goes: THE PROBLEM WITH PR Toward a world beyond press releases and bogus news By Doc Searls There is no Pulitzer Prize for…

• Can’t lose, in a way

  Doc Searls

  22 Jan 2012 | 2:34 pm

  I grew up in New Jersey and New York, rooting for the Giants. (And, in the Namath era, the Jets too.) Then, after 20 years in North Carolina (mostly as a college basketball fan), I lived in the Bay Area for 25 years, and rooted for the 49ers there. One daughter lives in the Bay Area, and most of my wife’s huge family lives in the Bay Area, and most of them are hard-core for the Niners. We were out there a week ago and got some great hang time watching the Niners beat the Saints. However, I’ve worked and lived in New England for five and a half years now, and have been rooting for…

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  chrisbrogan.com

• Throw Away the Maps

  ceb

  6 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  People judge us by the path they’ve seen us walk before. They can’t anticipate our future steps. We, ourselves, look to how things have been, what seems to be the lay of the land, without realizing that the maps are not the territory. Want to succeed at work? Then don’t try to do your job. Instead, work towards something larger, more meaningful, and something that blends your convictions internally with your best ability to help others externally. Want to create something new? Then throw away the old, or maybe join two disparate old things together into something new. The…

• The Next Social Networks

  ceb

  5 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  The rage in social networks right now is Pinterest, partly because it’s probably the first social network that has a much higher adoption rate by females than males, and partly because it’s an interesting concept: somewhere between visual social bookmarking and scrapbooking. What also might not be immediately obvious is that it’s just “easier” to interact there. In that way, Pinterest has something in common with Instagram, which is community around photos. What I’m interested in, though, is Gentlemint, which I keep calling “Pinterest for…

• Learn From Adele – Build Your Platform

  ceb

  3 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  Jacq and I just watched Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall (amazon affiliate link), and though every song was just wonderfully done, I found myself fascinated by what Adele was doing in between each song. Because even though most people would be interested in hearing her belt out her amazing repertoire of hits, what I took away from the performance was Adele’s real magical ability: the ability to resonate with her audience. What Adele Could Teach You About Impact I’m writing something about this right now for my upcoming book with Julien Smith, but I had to share some of the…

• Rob Gokee is a Musical Wizard

  ceb

  2 Feb 2012 | 8:05 am

  I had such a great experience working with award winning musical composer Rob Gokee. We did some musical work together, and the process was so amazing. Rob helped me create my theme song for Shhh! The Secret Show. So anyhow, he and I sat down to do an interview, and it’s a bit long, but it’s totally worth it. We talk about what collaboration feels like at a distance, what it takes to get music like this made for your own show, and a lot more. Rob’s a hero to me, and has been part of the community for a while. I was so fortunate to have worked with him. Can’t see the…

• Build Your Platform – Start

  ceb

  30 Jan 2012 | 1:30 am

  The following is part ONE of a series called Build Your Platform. If you find it interesting, please consider subscribing for free to get the rest of the series. This post is long. You might want to bookmark it for later. The age of social media oversaturation is upon us. People are declaring Twitter bankruptcy to go along with their email bankruptcy. They cite not wanting to start on yet another social network as their reason for not getting more involved with Google+. And just as soon as you start getting into Pinterest, you hear about Path, but wait: there’s Gentlemint, which is…

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  Being Peter Kim

• Is social media free?

  Peter Kim

  2 Feb 2012 | 12:22 am

  In 2002, I was having a budget conversation with my CFO. I was general manager of the online store and we were discussing my requests for FTEs, technology upgrades, and marketing spend. The CFO asked me, "this is an online store...why do we need to spend any more money...doesn't it run itself?" (I'm 99% sure he wasn't joking.) This week, news has been circulating that FMCG company Procter & Gamble will eliminate 1,600 jobs and shift more budget into digital media. The headline over at Business Insider is a bit more incendiary: "P&G To Lay Off 1,600 After Discovering It's Free To…

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  Indie Travel Podcast

• Auckland lantern festival in photos

  Craig Martin

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:00 am

  We’ve just entered the year of the dragon, and it marks the first full cycle of the Chinese new year for the Auckland lantern festival, held in Albert Park each year. This year’s lantern festival seemed twice as big and twice as busy for us… at least alongside the food stalls which showcase the best of Asia’s streetfood traditions. Here’s some of our favourite shots from the evening — taken between polishing off dumplings, running into friends, and enjoying the live music. Click any image to enlarge. [Show as slideshow] What now? Take a look at more…

• Ayutthaya, Thailand, by bike and boat

  Linda Martin

  6 Feb 2012 | 9:00 am

  Ayutthaya, one of Thailand’s ex-capitals, is located about 90 minutes’ drive from the present capital, Bangkok. It’s packed with remnants from its glory days, and makes a great day trip from Bangkok, especially if you hop on a bike as we did. We caught a minivan from Bangkok central and were met at the Ayutthaya end by our guide Nhoi from Ayutthaya Boat and Travel. After a quick stop at the office to pick up bikes and another guide, we were off. The first stop was at one of the most beautiful information centres I’d ever been in, full of intricate models and…

• Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Linda Martin

  3 Feb 2012 | 9:00 am

  Rio de Janeiro’s famous statue of Christ the Redeemer is located on the top of Corcovado mountain. It’s a symbol of the city and of Brazil, and a visit to the top of the hill to see it up close is a must-do on the itinerary of most visitors to the city. Many tourists visit by organised tour, usually as part of a day tour that takes in some of Rio’s other sights — such as the Selarón steps, the cathedral and the Sugar Loaf. You can visit independently by catching the Trem do Corcovado (Corcovado train) for R$36, by hiring a car or taking a taxi — or you can just…

• Carnival in Rio de Janeiro – the world’s biggest party

  Craig and Linda

  1 Feb 2012 | 3:06 pm

  Carnival, or Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is one of the world’s biggest parties. This week we speak with Joel Ward from Freedonia Post about his experiences learning to samba and enjoying a few drinks in Rio. To listen, hit play below or look for episode 226 in iTunes: The basis of carnival A lot of people think Carnival only happens in Rio, but that’s not true. The whole thing is rooted in the Catholic religious calendar — this is the beginning of the Lent period of fasting, and if you’re going to fast for 40 days, you might as well party like anything to kick it…

• Win $75 in travel prizes!

  Craig and Linda

  31 Jan 2012 | 10:01 pm

  This month, you can win $50 worth of Urban Adventure day tours in one of over 100 cities, plus $25 of Indie Travel books to help you plan your trip! Use the entry form below to enter the draw. a Rafflecopter giveaway You need javascript enabled to see this giveaway. How to win… It’s easy! Fill in the three mandatory entries by clicking “Do it!” on each one, then: ‘Like’ Indie Travel Podcast on Facebook – then click “Enter!” ‘Like’ Urban Adventures on Facebook – then click “Enter!” Answer the simple question…

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  Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk

• Country diary: Alturlie Point: Menace of a heron ready to strike

  Ray Collier

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pm

  Alturlie Point: The solitary bird was stalking its prey just beyond the ice-free margin – it was almost motionlessIn the still air it seemed as though we could smell the cold that appeared to add to the view across the Moray Firth from the point. The tide was well out and the wide inter-tidal zone was covered with almost startling white ice which was an unusual surprise even at -6C. Most of the exposed area was iced over with small mounds of ice-covered rocks and seaweed, putting a strange perspective on the view.The cold was emphasised by the backcloth of the snow-covered Ben Wyvis hills…

• Pie town gets a bite of its TV chef, whose Dad did the cooking at Castle Howard

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:42 am

  James Martin returns - sort-of - to Malton and Norton, whose gift to Charles Dickens in 1841 prompted the great man to write: "There never was such a pie. We sit and stare at it and grow dizzy in contemplation of its enormous magnitude."The pie-makers of Malton and Norton will be twitching at the news that celebrity chef and former local lad James Martin is returning to his roots to be executive chef at the new Talbot Hotel.Martin, who is more often seen on our television screens than actually in a restaurant these days, has agreed to work with the Talbot ahead of its reopening in the…

• Where to eat in Copenhagen - by Noma's chefs

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:26 am

  A new guidebook reveals where the staff from Noma eat in Copenhagen. From the head chef to the waitress, here are their favourite food and drink hangoutsRelaeCobblestoned streets, wide pavements, tables and benches outside small, simple cafes, delis, and all sorts of boutiques … Jaegersborggade, a small street on the outskirts of the Nørrebro neighbourhood, oozes creativity. You find things you never knew you needed. It's nice in the early evening when you can still catch a bit of sun. I often stick around for dinner at the exquisite Restaurant Relæ, named the city's Best New Restaurant…

• Wassailing and other weird folk rituals

  Tom Cox

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:04 am

  Singing to apple trees, kissing a straw bear and wrestling a keg of beer down a hill ... country rituals may sound silly, but they're good for the soul, says Tom Cox"Excuse me. You're not on the way to the wassail, by any chance?" The hood on my duffle coat has a blind spot, but it was a windy January night in Darkest Norfolk, my friends Jack and Hannah and I were feeling a little shaken after visiting an Anglo Saxon burial mound in fading light, and the stranger, whose name turned out to be Jim, really did seem to come out of nowhere.I jumped a little at the sound of his voice. On the other…

• Bestival 2012 lineup: The xx and Sigur Rós to make exclusive appearances

  Guardian music

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:37 am

  Festival on the Isle of Wight will also see sets from Adam Ant and Azealia Banks, with headliners yet to be announcedThe first major acts for this year's Bestival have been announced, including exclusive festival performances from the xx and Sigur Rós.The festival, curated by Radio 1 DJ Rob da Bank and his wife Josie, will be held at Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight from 6–9 September. Also newly announced are exclusive festival appearances from Warpaint and Sister Sledge, as well as performances from Justice, Hot Chip, De La Soul, Bellowhead, Azealia Banks, Adam Ant, the…

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  @ProBlogger

• How to Succinctly Report a Blog Issue to Tech Support

  Guest Blogger

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:07 am

  This guest post is by Matthew Setter of Malt Blue. How often do you find it happening to you? You discover an issue with your site, or one of your community members emails you to tell you about it, and soon you start to see tweets about it too. Maybe it’s as simple as an error message that detracts from the professional appearance of your site. Perhaps the contact form doesn’t send messages to your contact email address. Or is it that the whole site just displays as a blank page, otherwise known as the white page of death? You’re not a programmer, a software engineer or a seasoned…

• Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger: Part 2

  Guest Blogger

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:05 pm

  This guest post is by Devesh of WP Kube. A few months ago, I wrote a guest post here called How to Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger. Today, I’ll go into some more detailed advice to help you speed up your site even more. If you’re a blogger, you already know about the importance of blog loading speed, and the role it plays in search engine rank and marketing your blog. But if this is new territory for you, here are three quick reasons why you need to speed up your blog: Google includes website loading speed as an important metric in their ranking algorithm. If you want…

• How I Beat my Best Month Ever by Doing Something Good, Better [Case Study]

  Darren Rowse

  7 Feb 2012 | 6:04 am

  Mid-December 2010: on my photography site, we launched a new campaign—our first ever 12 Days of Christmas promotion. The result was my biggest month of earnings ever up to that point. The idea was simple: offer discounts on 12 products over the 12 days leading up to Christmas. I used a mix of my own ebooks and products from other photography sites with affiliate commissions. The result was massive. Not only did we see some great revenue generated, it created some lovely buzz on the site. Due to the success of the 2010 campaign, in mid-December 2011 we launched our second 12 Days of…

• Six Steps to Make Sure Your Site Is Ready to Go Viral

  Guest Blogger

  6 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am

  This guest post is by Nancy Sathre-Vogel of Family on Bikes. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Surely Google Analytics was confusing my site with another, way more popular site. There was no way my visitor numbers could be so high! And yet they were. One of my posts had taken off and was spreading like wildfire. Those viral post phenomena that happen to others were now happening to me. The first day, 17,000 visitors came to my website. The next day we topped out at 56,000. Readers were coming in droves. It was exciting. It was exhilarating. My site, viral! Wow! And then I took a…

• How to Handle Criticism: a Practical Guide

  Darren Rowse

  5 Feb 2012 | 12:03 pm

  Image by Stuart RichardsAs bloggers, each of us has to deal with criticism. Blogging is a very public activity—almost all of us has the goal of gaining readers to our blogs—and the more people you reach, the more likely it is that you’ll hear criticisms. “You’re wrong…” “How can you say that? You don’t know what you’re talking about.” “I couldn’t disagree more…” “This is the last time I read this blog!” These are just some of the criticisms bloggers regularly face—I’ve received versions of…

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  trendsspotting blog

• “Trends and Innovations in Mobile Accessories” Research Report

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  1 Feb 2012 | 8:03 am

  We are happy to announce the release of a new TrendsSpotting research report  uncovering  major  trends  in  Mobile  Accessories. Based  on  exploration  of  over  2000  new  accessories  released  since  2011  +   CES  2012  and  a  market  analysis  of  major  market  trends  characterizing  this   growing  market, TrendsSpotting  has  identified  about  150  recently  released   products  that  reflect  new  emerging  trends  in  mobile  accessories. The  innovations  analyzed  in  this  report  are  profiled  according  to …

• LEADING DIGITAL WOMEN PREDICT 2012

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  11 Jan 2012 | 6:20 pm

  For the last five years TrendsSpotting trends research company has published prediction reports covering trends in tech, mobile and social media, suggested by leading technology and business experts. TrendsSpotting’s Influencers Prediction Reports 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 are read by thousands of readers and are used by leading companies to plan their future (viewership at Slideshare/TrendsSpotting). As TrendsSpotting is involved in re-placing the role of women in the digital world (see us at Microsoft’s Women Think Next and WIFT), we have decided that this year we will dedicate this…

• Emerging market for mobile health products

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  9 Nov 2011 | 3:15 am

  In the past year, products using mobile devices to monitor health conditions are becoming more popular with the first ones now getting accepted by the Food and Drug Administration. Among health care apps entering the market are blood pressure monitoring cuffs, CT-scan viewers, and pocket ultrasound machines. The market is still at its first steps but rapid growth is expected: according to mobile market consultancy research2guidance, by 2015 30 percent of the world’s smartphone users will be using mobile health products, up from 5 percent today. The big promise for consumers are…

• 2020 Predictions -Model for Future Innovations

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  14 Oct 2011 | 2:12 am

  Based on the concept of “The Internet of Things” TrendsSpotting has developed  a working model for NPD.  ”The ANA Model” was developed  and implemented while working with tech companies, and allows us to predict future products and services. The “ANA Model” identifies the process where data is collected from reported “Actions”, then delivered to predefined monitor systems or professionals by “Notifications”. The outcomes can “Alert” people through a visualized system. Few daily activities are presented to reflect the…

• How crowdsourcing games help solve scientific problems: Review of current projects

  Dr. Taly Weiss

  6 Oct 2011 | 7:09 am

  It has been shown that the human capacity has still important advantages over computers. Scientists have learned to use crowd sourcing tools to improve their research. To achieve cooperation, they present models of the problems in a game like display and challenge the partipants to find solutions. Scientists in Carnegie Mellon University (look up Luis von Ahn) were the first to use human brains to help them solve problems associated with searching for images on the web (computers are not very good at distinguishing images from each other using visual cues). This lead to the development…

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  Freelance Social Media

• Google+ for Tourism, CVBs, and Cities

  admin

  3 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pm

  We’ve created a short how-to guide on using Google+ pages for destination marketing. We hope that convention and visitors bureaus, cities, and others in the tourism industry will find it useful. You can download the guide here:  Google+ for tourism, CVBs, and cities  Best, Jacinta Langford Hoyt LangfordMedia   This content from: Freelance Social Media Google+ for Tourism, CVBs, and Cities ShareThis

• Zarco 66 Pumping Out Foursquare Deals

  Justin

  28 Jun 2011 | 12:58 pm

  TIME FOR A SMOOTHIE! That’s what you may hear over the speakers at Zarco 66 when you go fill up your gas tank at five o’clock in the morning. You’ll be going there that early in the day because if you are one of the first five people to check in to a Zarco 66 on Foursquare, you will get ten cents off per gallon of gas that you purchase.   Not many better ways to entice customers to your gas station than giving discounts on an expensive necessity like gas. There are five Zarco locations offering the special, three of them in Lawrence. The Facebook page mentions that there will be…

• Big East: Goodbye Reese’s, Hello Twitter?

  Justin

  10 Mar 2011 | 8:00 am

  On Tuesday night the Big East Men’s Basketball Championship began. This is a five day tournament played in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Usually the court is adorned with the Big East Conference logo, the tournament logo and some advertising logos (and if you see an advertising logo on a basketball court, more than likely it will be for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups). However, I noticed something else on the court while watching the games on television Tuesday night. The conference decided to paint the name of the Big East Basketball Twitter account on the sideline near both…

• Rename app tabs in Facebook Page

  cinta5

  21 Feb 2011 | 10:06 am

  It’s hard keeping up with all the Facebook Page updates lately! The latest one I came across involved being able to rename the app on your page sidebar. Click “Edit Page”>Apps>”edit settings” in the app of your choosing. Happy editing! *As noted by @bailann below, you cannot edit “basic pages” like Notes, Photos, etc. This content from: Freelance Social Media Rename app tabs in Facebook Page ShareThis

• Customizing the new Facebook profile

  cinta5

  29 Dec 2010 | 8:42 am

  I’m sure over the last few weeks you’ve noticed Facebook has been rolling out a new look for profiles. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind when it comes to the new profile: Photos at the top. The photos at the top display the last five recent photos you’ve been tagged in. In case you’re not happy with what is displayed, you can simply hover over the photo you’d like to remove at the top and click on the little ‘x’.   Featured Friends. You can now highlight your closest friends by clicking on “Featured Friends” when editing…

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  News from Journalism.co.uk

• Guardian sells PaidContent publisher to GigaOM

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:06 am

  GigaOM acquires ContentNext Media for undisclosed sum, creating 'powerhouse' of online digital business and tech journalism

• PCC director Stephen Abell steps down

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:41 am

  Press Complaints Commission hires 'director of transition' while new proposals for press self-regulation are developed

• #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – use Topsy to search the social web

  Sarah Marshall

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:30 am

  Tweet Topsy is a is search option recommended by Nicola Hughes, Knight-Mozilla Fellow at the Guardian during a workshop on searching social media at last week’s news:rewired conference. It is also a previous Journalism.co.uk tool of the week. Topsy is “one of the only Twitter search tools that has Tweets older than two weeks”, Hughes explained. In order to research and verify images, Hughes advised putting images in to Topsy to see if they have been previously shared. The full list of mentions of “Topsy” and #newsrw (the conference hashtag) are at this Topsy…

• Thomson Reuters journalists cancel strike after pay deal

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:21 am

  UK-based journalists at global newswire accept improved pay offer, after several days of negotiations

• BBC Editors’ Blog: Guidance on breaking news and Twitter

  Paul McNally

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:23 am

  Tweet After Sky News’s crackdown on Twitter use – and specifically retweeting non-Sky journalists – was revealed last night, it’s the BBC’s turn to clarify its position. In a post on the BBC editors’ blog today, social media editor Chris Hamilton says the corporation has distributed some revised breaking news guidance to correspondents, reporters and producers. It says that, when they have some breaking news, an exclusive or any kind of urgent update on a story, they must get written copy into our newsroom system as quickly as possible, so that it can be…

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  MediaShift

• Are You Part of the 2% (of People Who Get Campaign News From Twitter)?

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm

  Many of you are, like me, among the proverbial "99%" when it comes to economics and income. But if you regularly learn about the 2012 campaign from those you follow on Twitter, as I do, you're in an elite class of a different sort. A new report out from the The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press contains some interesting findings about the media outlets citizens are using to inform themselves about the presidential campaign. Here are a few of the more surprising findings. New Media: Not So Much According to the study, while this is the first campaign in which the Internet has…

• Daily Must Reads, Feb. 8, 2012

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:45 am

  The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. Amazon and Viacom nearing web-video deal (Reuters) 2. Sky News clamps down on Twitter use (Guardian) 3. Le Huffington Post Québec launches (FishbowlNY) 4. Facebook partners with Bango, looks to mobile payments (The Next Web) 5. LinkedIn is acquiring Rapportive, a startup that focuses on contacts (AllThingsD) 6. WaPo Facebook app hits Kindle, iPhone, iPod, Android (All Facebook) 7. Social TV startup Flingo nabs $7 million investment (AllThingsD) 8. FTC sends warning to mobile app developers (Online Media Daily)…

• Spoiler Alert! Tech Is Changing the Way We Even Talk About TV

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am

  (Spoiler alert! The following post includes things that happened on "Downton Abbey," "The Sopranos" and "Dallas.") The post to Facebook on a late Monday morning was simple enough. A photo of actor Thomas Howes as his character William from "Downton Abbey," along with the status, "Oh, William. We will miss you." The post was meant to engage, and perhaps commiserate with, those Nashville Public Television fans that were sad that William had died the night before in episode 4 of season 2 of the series. Many people "liked" it, but many of those who posted in the comments section did not. It…

• Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, Feb. 7, 2012

  7 Feb 2012 | 8:45 am

  The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education 1. Digital, print textbooks to compete for college audience (U.S. News & World Report) 2. Rice U. to offer free online physics textbook (Inside Higher Ed) 3. Is the iPad an educational tool or a lifestyle addiction? (Des Moines Register) 4. Why teachers should manage their digital identities (TeachHUB) 5. Teaching the 'digital native' (Messenger Post) Get the weekly Journalism Education Roundup email from MediaShift This is a summary. Visit our site for the full post ».

• Daily Must Reads, Feb. 7, 2012

  7 Feb 2012 | 8:30 am

  The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. AP beats Google for Nevada caucus results (Poynter) 2. Netflix competes with pay cable with its first original series (paidContent) 3. Disney's ABC, Univision in talks to create 24-hour cable-news channel (Wall Street Journal) 4. Publishers are flubbing the iPad, except one (Newsosaur) 5. Facebook will release more user data (Reuters) 6. Esquire uses trailer to promote own story. Did it work?  (Nieman Lab) Subscribe to our daily Must Reads email newsletter and get the links in your in-box every weekday!