June 2009
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What Money Can’t Buy →
You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy. - Garth Brooks
A First Kiss from Someone Special – The sweet rush of butterflies in your tummy when you kiss someone special for the very first time.
The Realization of True Love – The warm feeling you get many years after your first kiss when you realize you married the right person.
Beauty – Because beauty is in the eye of...
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“Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a...”
– The Pursuit of Happyness
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Seth Godin: Magicians, sausage makers and... →
Does everything have to become completely transparent?
One of the ideas du jour online is the rush to make things transparent. To tear down the barriers and raise the blinds on the way organizations do business and to expose as much as possible.
Does Apple become a more exciting or profitable company if they share their sketches, their plans, open source their new designs and engage the...
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Facebook hack - Your profile data is exposed →
Critical flaws in Facebook once again are exposing your profile information. As social networks continue to play a vital role on the web, and user adoption increases for location based sites; privacy, and security must be taken seriously, and treated as a top priority.
Web users have become increasingly trusting of social networks and seem to forget a lot of their activity is quickly indexed...
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Seth Godin: On the road to mediocrity →
Along the way, we settle.
We settle for something not quite right, or an outfit that isn’t our best look, or a job that doesn’t quite maximize our talents. We settle for relationships that don’t give us joy, or a website that’s, “good enough.”
The only way to get mediocre is one step at a time.
You don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you...
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Reminder Fox Firefox Addon →
ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application. ReminderFox makes sure you remember all of your important dates via...
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Jury in RIAA Trial Slaps $2 Million Fine on Jammie... →
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A federal jury on Thursday found Jammie Thomas-Rasset liable in the nation’s only Recording Industry Association of America file-sharing case to go to trial, dinging her $1.92 million for infringing 24 songs.
Thomas-Rasset (then just Jammie Thomas) went to trial two years ago, and was ordered to pay $222,000 by a different jury for the same songs. The judge in the first case...
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Who rules real-time search? A look at 11... →
Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted is a weakness for the search giant. And they’re using microblogging and social bookmarking sites as tools to figure out what content is relevant up to the second.
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140 Character Conference →
The Huffington Post: The Hybrid Media Takeover: LIVE from the #140conf
TechCrunch : Is Twitter The CNN Of The New Media Generation?
Venture Capital Dispatch: Twitter’s Cast Of A Thousand-Dollar Characters
Haaretz: ‘Twitter revolutionized Israeli diplomacy’
The Industry Standard: Clearing Something Up
Daily Finance: Massucci’s Take: Ann Curry steals the show at Twitter conference
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How to Make Decisions Outside Your Comfort Zone -... →
When it comes to problem solving, some prefer the act fast, go-with-your-gut approach. But a new BusinessWeek report says that this leap-into-action model should be avoided for issues outside your skill set and suggests following a three-pronged method instead.
Photo by nerovivo.
BusinessWeek calls these kinds of circumstances adaptive challenges since the solution is unknown at the...
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Social Engineering: 5 Security Holes at the Office... →
We poked around a secure building with social engineering expert Chris Nickerson and found several ways a criminal could get inside and access sensitive data
If you think the biggest threat to your sensitive information lies in network security, think again. Once a criminal is inside a building, there are limitless possibilities to what that person can access or damage. Take a look at your...
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How Privacy Fails: The Facebook Applications... →
I’ve been writing a lot about privacy in social networks, and sometimes the immediacy gets lost during the more theoretical debates. Recently though I’ve been investigating a massive privacy breach on Facebook’s application platform which serves as a sobering case study. Even to me, the extent of unauthorised data flow I found and the cold economic motivations keeping it going were surprising....
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Mindblowing #IranElection Stats: 221,744 Tweets... →
dontbeasheep:
The protests in Iran have only grown in size and in magnitude these last few days. Ever since the highly disputed “landslide victory” for incumbent Ahmadinejad and subsequent charges of voter fraud, Iranians have taken up their cameras, mobile phones, and computers to send Twitter updates, YouTube videos, and Flickr photos of the riots.
While we knew that these social tools...
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TweetTabs Brings Client-Like Twitter Search to the... →
If you use a Twitter client like TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop, odds are you have a number of different searches setup in multiple columns. For example, I have a search setup for ‘mashable’ in TweetDeck that automatically updates to show me each time someone mentions our brand in a Tweet (so be nice!).
However, if you don’t use a client, the only way to get this type of functionality is to use...
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Paul Graham - The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups →
In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It’s equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed—and that’s too big a question to answer on the fly. Afterwards I realized it could be helpful to look...
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TED Blog: Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran →
NYU professor Clay Shirky gave a fantastic talk on new media during our TED@State event earlier this month. He revealed how cellphones, the web, Facebook and Twitter had changed the rules of the game, allowing ordinary citizens extraordinary new powers to impact real-world events. As protests in Iran exploded over the weekend, we decided to rush out his talk, because it could hardly be more...
Less is more. The tweet(ed) revolution →
(Credit: Multileveler)
Looking at the many positive responses it received, Pico Iyer’s recent NY Times blog post on “The Joy of Less” appears to have struck a chord:
“But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn’t want or need, not all I did. And it seemed quite useful to take a clear, hard look at what really led to peace of mind or...
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“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because...”
– Dalai Lama
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Gary Hamel: Innovators, Take Heart in the... →
By Gary Hamel
When you’re crawling through the long dark tunnel of a recession, it’s hard to be optimistic—even if you believe that the world is filled with more promise than peril. And if you’re a champion of innovation, I imagine the challenge is even greater. If you’re a corporate VP, you’ve probably had a pet project gutted by some recently emboldened bean counter. If you’re a struggling...
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Top 100 Best Books for Managers, Leaders & Humans →
Ladies and gentlemen…
In this post I proudly present the Top 100 Best Books for Managers, Leaders & Humans. I have created this list using three different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, and 3) number of Google hits.
Please refer to the bottom of this post to find out how I performed the calculations, and why that obscure and silly little favorite book...
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
– Henry Ford
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Seth Godin: You matter →
When you love the work you do and the people you do it with, you matter.
When you are so gracious and generous and aware that you think of other people before yourself, you matter.
When you leave the world a better place than you found it, you matter.
When you continue to raise the bar on what you do and how you do it, you matter.
When you teach and forgive and teach more before you rush to...
“Act as though it is impossible to fail.”
– Anonymous
Social Media Blogs Top 200 →
Well, here it is… the Social Media Blogs Top 200. Forget the AdAge Power 150, forget BlogRank’s Top 100 Blogs, forget eCairn’s Top 150 Blogs, and forget WinningTheWeb IM Top Blogs. This is the real thing. The best list of social media blogs in the world.
Why is this the best list?
Ah, glad you asked…
This Top 200 list makes use of better source data. Sure, I’ve...
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Seth Godin: Guy #3 →
Paul just sent over this video of a dance tribe forming spontaneously at a music festival.
My favorite part happens just before the first minute mark. That’s when guy #3 joins the group. Before him, it was just a crazy dancing guy and then maybe one other crazy guy. But it’s guy #3 who made it a movement.
Initiators are rare indeed, but it’s scary to be the leader. Guy...
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For TechCrunch, Twitter = Traffic (A Statistical... →
Some people use Twitter to organize street protests in Tehran. Some people use it to share their daily thoughts and observation. But it is increasingly becoming clear that one of the most common ways people use Twitter is as a social information filter and link distributor.
Over the past few months, TechCrunch has experienced the power of this micro-media firsthand as the percentage of...
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Texas Lawmakers Crack Down On Fake Profiles →
In a move aimed at cracking down on cyerbullying, Texas lawmakers passed a new bill that makes it a crime to impersonate people online.
The new “online harassment” statute makes it a felony to create phony profiles on social networking sites with the intent to “harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten” others. The statute defines commercial social networking sites broadly, saying they include any...
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A personal manifesto for a User-Centric web
A pretty walled garden
There are walls all around us. We live our lives realizing that we have to live with rules and limitations. We have laws to obey, values to live by, families we are part off, countries we live in, services we make use of, gravity that pulls us down, freedom of speech, natural resources, food, water, money. Everything we do in life comes with a set of rules.
The...
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination...”
– Einstein
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10 Tips for promoting your blog →
This is the first in a two-part series. In part 1, I’ll be looking at ways you can promote your blog online. In part 2 (which may be delayed a week or two, but it will be coming), I’ll focus on ways to promote your blog offline.
Don’t miss the 2nd part of the series - subscribe today!
So - how can you promote your blog online?
1. Advertising.
I’ve read some reports...
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More Ways to Sell Out of Your Startup Stock →
By Pui-Wing Tam
Startup executives and employees haven’t had it easy cashing out of their private company stock since the IPO and M&A markets, which typically provide “liquidity” and a route to riches, have been relatively moribund in recent years. Spotting an opportunity, several companies have sprung up in recent months to try and provide startups with new avenues to liquidity.
Next week,...
10 superb social media presentations →
Slideshare is a fantastic resource for sharing presentations, so you can enjoy and learn from smart people even if you cannot attend the conferences and events they often speak at.
Some slideshows lose a lot of meaning if you dont have the author walking and talking you through them, but others are excellent, and there’s a kind of brevity associated with the best presentations / slides,...
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Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be... →
Noah Goldstein’s, Steve Martin’s (no, not that Steve Martin’s) and Robert Cialdini’s Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive is a pop psych book, where a bunch of research in psychology is distilled into one readable volume.50 scientifically proven ways constitute 50 chapters of the book, longest of which take 7 pages. The authors take the position that persuasion is a science, not...
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Mozilla Updates Firefox Add-Ons Site with... →
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could click one link and have all your favorite add-ons automatically installed on a new copy of Firefox? Mozilla makes it so with Collections, the newest feature of a revamped add-on site.
We’d seen beta previews of the new add-on site, but as of this morning, the redesign has gone live. The new skin and organization make it more apparent how to search,...