“”The closer you are to the ball, the higher your score.” Details here and here. Hat tip to Kottke.”
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Archive for July, 2008
NFL Player IQ by Position Played
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Guy Kawasaki’s Frienderati Slightly Flawed [video]
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008“This weekend and over the course of yesterday, Guy Kawasaki’ s Alltop made the news for creating a new set of RSS feeds added to the site from FriendFeed. They called this the Frienderati, and it was a list of FriendFeed members as determined by a mystery algorithm worth following on FriendFeed. Stan covered this here [...]”
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Hit songs are getting wordier
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008“Average word count of top-ten songs during the 1960s: 176 Average last year: 436 That is from Harper’s Index, August issue. I don’t think it can be a pure length of song effect.”
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Sebastian Flyte rules
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008“Re XII ‘there is a groupie for every male endeavour’ THIS IS SO MONEY. It is one of the great triumphs of modern capitalism: let a thousand status hierarchies bloom! Unlike in hunter gatherer days, there isn’t one status hierarchy…”
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Is the iPhone Killing Terrestrial Radio?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008“You have to just love it when a more well known industry expert and pundit than yourself says something you’ ve been trumpeting for close to a decade. Today, I got that warm fuzzy feeling down in the cockles of my heart when Jeff Jarvis boldly proclaimed tear down the broadcast towers! In case you’ re (somehow) not [...]”
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How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008“Is someone you work with taking Provigil to give them an extra competitive edge? I’ ve spoken with one executive who says he uses it regularly to work twenty hour days, and the buzz lately is that it’ s the entrepreneur’ s drug of choice around Silicon Valley. Over the last week two separate entrepreneurs have mentioned it [...]”
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How to Track 500 Business Blogs in 10 Minutes a Day
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008“In my previous post, we discussed how to build a social media strategy for your business in five steps. The first step every company needs to do is start listening. Of course, this is a process that can be outsourced, but even if you choose to hire someone to assist with this task, it’s important that [...]”
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SavvyAuntie: P.A.N.K. Is The New Pink
Saturday, July 12th, 2008“A lot of people in technology, especially in startups, don’ t understand marketing. Melanie Notkin clearly does. Her startup, SavvyAuntie, is not some super-high-tech website, it’ s actually quite simple. But the marketing is genius. Women account for 80% of the economy. Mothers spend about $1.7 trillion dollars on consumer products each year. [...]”
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China Fact of the Day
Friday, July 11th, 2008“China is the world’s largest importer of chicken feet and the United States is the world’s largest exporter. Tyson Foods alone send some 2.8 billion chicken feet to China every year. The chicken feet are sold at Chinese Wal-Marts (among…”
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Six Million iBricks… and Growing
Friday, July 11th, 2008“Well this is a fine kettle of fish. iPhone activations have essentially gone down and everyone – from folks updating their old phones to new 3G activators – are stuck with bricks until traffic dies off. Reader Brent reports: Hey Just a heads up my iPhone, and looking at their forums, everyone else’ s iPhones are bricks because [...]”
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