January 2010
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Live Stream: Times Square 2010 On Hulu →
With a bit of rain and snow in the forecast for the New Year’s Eve festivities in the Big Apple, the team at Hulu HQ can’t blame you for wanting to stay warm and dry inside. The good news? You can catch all the festivities at home with Hulu. From approximately 10 p.m. EST to 12:15 a.m. EST, Hulu is hosting a live stream direct from Times Square as the crowd counts down to the ball drop at...
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December 2009
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“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the...”
– Anonymous
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StumbleUpon Unveils Most Stumbled Sites for 2009 →
StumbleUpon has had quite a year. They bought themselves back from eBay and launched a URL shortening service, among other things. Now, they’re revealing the most stumbled sites for their historic year that was 2009.
Here they are, broken down by category:
Arts
Jim Jarmusch Quote - 278K Stumbles Aled Lewis Illustrations - 253K Stumbles Pepsi Logo Response - 229K Stumbles
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Tim Ferriss Keynote: How to Create a Global... →
This is a recent Tim Ferriss keynote from the 2,000-person+ Le Web in Paris, which focused on how to catalyze a global phenomenon on a very limited budget. Topics include:
- How to sell “around the product” for more coverage. - The three necessary types of media exposure. - Real-world tipping points from the launch of The 4-Hour Workweek - How to increase website conversion 80%.
It pulls from...
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62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business →
Most of you know that Twitter can be used for much more than just announcing what you ate for breakfast. Many of you already know Twitter’s value in business, but you can still take it further and use it to land gigs, market your business, grow your network and gain free publicity — all in 140 characters or less.
It’s true that Twitter is what you make of it. Some people publicize their daily...
20 things that happen in 1 minute →
http://www.onlineeducation.net/every_minute/
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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do”
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“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its...”
– Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize in Economics
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Watch
Elizabeth Gilbert at the TED Conference 2009 She talks about the creative spark and, no joke, brought tears to my eyes.
Have any semblance of creativity about you? Watch this now.
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“Look into your own heart, discover what gives you pain, and then refuse, under...”
– Karen Armstrong
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“only crazy, ignorant, passionate people would still be reading this, thinking...”
– Dave McClure - Master of 500 Hats: Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE about Customers & Products, NOT about being Great Entrepreneurs
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Though Saint Nicholas of Myra is the inspiration...
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Brands that harnessed the power of memes →
Read why memes are what really matter — not the videos themselves
Check out brands that successfully caught and rode the viral wave
Learn why it pays to befriend one-hit wonders
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Coming In 2010: Virtual Cable Companies →
Apple’s planned subscription service, Netflix’ streaming service, maybe even Comcast’s new xfinity are early examples of the Virtual MSO. Its attributes – premium content, multi-business model (subscription, advertising, transactional), linear and on-demand consumption, user and multi-device entitlement – come from both Web video and pay TV. Also, with the Virtual MSO, the big screen is...
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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the...”
– Jim Morrison
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The Google Mafia →
Was reading this article about Google’s move into local search and how it’s peaked regulator’s interest and one quote in particular jumped out:
“This is not in the ‘don’t be evil’ bucket,” said one industry source, who like most asked not to be named for fear of repercussions for publicly criticizing Google. “They’re giving preferential treatment to their own content.”
Really? “Asked not to be...
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Digg’s Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2009 →
It’s the end of the year, traditionally a time for self-reflection. While many of us are making our New Year’s resolutions and looking back on what we accomplished, a lot of social media companies are sifting through their data and sharing what was hot in 2009.
Yahoo, Bing, Twitter and Facebook have already revealed their top searches and most-discussed trends and stories of 2009. While social...
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How to cook a ham
The biggest page of the day today on Mahalo will most likely be how to cook a ham:
http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-cook-a-ham
Not bad…. for Thanksgiving it was how to cook a turkey, but I guess more people cook ham on Christmas? http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-cook-a-turkey
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Jason Calcanis on Spotify & Sonos: Game Over....
Sonos is the greatest thing you can add to your home to automate it I’m convinced. I spent about $5,000 on 11 Sonos units and a $12 Rhapsody and $15 Sirius Account and I can listen to any music in the world (literally, you can tune into radio stations in Tokyo or Paris!) in any room in my home… or combination of rooms. I can feed my TV or either of two Mac Mini’s into the system as well. So, if...
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Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Christmas →
While you’re wrapping gifts and preparing to feast with family and friends, ponder these bizarre Christmas facts
A Very Merry Un-Birthday?
War On Christmas
Christmas in the Colonies
X-Mas Lit 101
What Hath Advertising Wrought
NASA’s Christmas Sighting
Kiss Me, I’m Celtic
O Tannenbaum!
Away in a Manger
Feliz Navidad Around the World