Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
A thank you to Penelope Trunk is in order for mentioning and linking to me in her Yahoo! Finance article. I hope that those of you who have come here, well, there, enjoy your visit :)
While I did use to work as a financial adviser assistant doing mutual fund analysis ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
I came across some data that fits quite well in with my recent post on how "lazy isn't a business model" that addresses the fascination of the seemingly easy money that can be made by "simply" advertising. Below shows some data via Reuters that display some pretty sobering numbers ...
Posted in Online Advertising | 3 Comments »
Monday, November 26th, 2007
A riff you might hear very often online is how shorter content wins over long content (longer videos, posts, etc). I have always thought this as a misleading but relatively true statement.
Short content doesn't win on its own. It reduces the amount of time it takes a user to ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I purchased Rockband on thanksgiving. I played Guitar Hero I & II extensively and really enjoyed it, but as a drummer I always wished they had "Drum Hero". Well, Rockband is a better solution to that. It's guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. As such, I have more or less sunk ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Just found Johnnie Moore's blog and wow. If all his posts are like this, absolutely fantastic.
Two parts of this I want to point out from the excerpt.
I try to influence you but you get to influence me
That is perhaps one of the most beautifully displayed pictures of how blogging, ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
(My Avatar in SecondLife... still working on it. Hair is wrong. Face a little tall I think)
So what is second life and why should you care? SecondLife is a virtual, 3d world. You enter this world via software you download onto your computer and run (like most executables). One ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I am a technojunkie raised off the kool aid of Silicon Valley, it's what makes me so good at what I do (the later part of that statement made more as a half truth to be evidence to my silicon valley statement). But as an entrepreneurship student who has done ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship | 1 Comment »
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
I've put together various processes for companies to monitor keywords online that don't require purchasing anything (I suppose it's that boot strapping, entrepreneurial mind that sends me on such quests). As such, I feel it only fair to make mention something I recently caught eye of over on Julia Roy's ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
This past week has been a busy one for me. All of my business professors decided to be nice to us seniors and set our assignment due dates before Thanksgiving Break. This is fantastic! Except that when all of our professors decide to act nice at the same time, it ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
There's a number of us marketers that understand your pain, and from the pushing of Cord Silverstein plan to help. Cord is organizing a series of Online Marketing 101 posts to help you all out. These posts will be coming from a variety of different marketing sources ranging from myself, ...
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