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Rework, The Basecamp Business Dogma

  • March 21st, 2010
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I recently finished listening to the Audible recording for Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier. [Baduku Review] and I have to admit I enjoyed it thoroughly. This doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with it completely but the convincing tone and the unwavering commitment to their dogma comes off as something definitive, as if it’s [ READ MORE ]

Twitter & Baduku are the most reliable for predicting American Idol eliminations.

  • March 5th, 2010
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So last week, Baduku.com conducted a short study titled “How Accurate Are Social Networks For Predicting American Idol Voting Results?” which gathered total fan count from major social networks to see if total fan count was a reliable predictor for contestant ranking from voting. This would in turn allow us to predict which contestants were [ READ MORE ]

Yelp Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Alleged Extortion Practices

  • February 25th, 2010
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The “Yelp Class Action Website” (Law firms, Beck & Lee from Miami and The Weston Firm from San Diego) cites to previous stories of similar behavior reported by The Wall Street Journal and others alleging review and rating website operator Yelp of unfair business practices. The lawsuit alleges that Yelp runs an “ext ortion scheme” and [ READ MORE ]

How Accurate Are Social Networks For Predicting American Idol Voting Results?

  • February 23rd, 2010
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How Accurate Are Social Networks For Prediction American Idol Voting Results? Statistics of total online fan base obtained from all official "American Idol" contestant fan pages on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Baduku may give us a glimpse of what to expect from this first week of voting to begin Tuesday, February 23rd [ READ MORE ]

A Case for the Being Crazy: How simplifying your pitch for the mainstream can dilute your dreams.

  • February 5th, 2010
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As you begin to craft your pitch to investors, you’ll have a natural inclination to simplify it in favor of mainstream adoption, however as you generalize your pitch so that everyone can understand, the process could come at the cost of diluting your original dreams and high hopes. A few weeks ago, I was attending an [ READ MORE ]

Apple iPad, learning to appreciate why less is more.

  • February 2nd, 2010
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Ben Parr of Mashable.com wrote an article about his thoughts regarding the iPad titled “Why Apple Could Have Etched “iPad” Into Some Rocks and Sold Millions” and I commented on the article with an anecdotal story that sort of relates to this in a skewed tangent sort of way. When I think of the iPad, I [ READ MORE ]

Optimizing Your Pay-per-Click (PPC) Campaign with Google Adwords

  • February 2nd, 2010
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I was recently reading an article one Social Media Today about PPC tips and what stated as a small comment turned in to a big list of detailed tips regarding how we have approached Google Adwords and what we think works regarding optimizing your PPC. Here’s a link to the original article by Shailesh Ghimire: [ READ MORE ]

Commentary on socialmediatoday.com article “The evolution of a new trust economy”

  • February 1st, 2010
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Here’s a comment I made on an article by Brian Solis on www.socialmediatoday.com titled “The Evolution of a new trust Economy” check it out below Great Article, in a sense you are implying that internet users have a virtual capital “webcred” that they are building. I think unlike real (face to face) social interaction, where managing [ READ MORE ]

10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2010, Real-Time Reviews

  • December 13th, 2009
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I was recently reading a blog on trendwatching.com titled “10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2010” and I utterly agree that Real-Time Reviews will be crucial not only next year, but will change how we approach reviews for many years to come. However, I also think the examples presented are still some what limited. We have [ READ MORE ]

How will we filter the stream.

  • December 8th, 2009
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Recently at the Techcrunch Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco, CA the main topic discussion was how to filter the stream. It’s true that these days, we are so inundated with information from multiple streams, people assume that it’s impossible to adequately disseminate all this information both efficiently and effectively. I too find it hard to manage and I [ READ MORE ]

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