Archive for 2007
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Hilarious. You won't regret watching it.
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Update
Er, what's not so hilarious is embedding the video breaks the CSS on my blog (probably because Tay came to haunt me for holding him in contempt in my last blog post). In the mean time, I tried to accommodate you all with the above ...
Posted in Thoughts | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
An article from AdAge, clipped it in part for reference and in part because it now requires a subscription to read (blast!).
Thinking about which I am, I would say I have the hacker mentality with half the skills (I used to code). Being technologically curious has in part lead ...
Posted in Employment, twentysomething | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Tay Zonday is an internet celebrity that sold out (not that I care and from what I have seen from the rest of my cyber brethren, they don't seem to care much, either) to Pepsi to recreate one of his hugely popular songs to promote Pepsi's new drink. Tay's song ...
Posted in Eh | No Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Harmonix's Rockband has 2 new peripherals. A Microphone and a Drum kit. Why does this matter? It matters when it comes to thinking about modification or accessorizing.First off, the drum kit will be a huge focal point of modification for Rockband. I'd say "I'm calling it ahead of time" but ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Rockband | No Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Fred Wilson over at Union Square Ventures has a really interesting post on why early stage venture investments fail.
The need to transform and the method that Dick described are two things I have been experiencing first hand with the company I currently work for. The first site we rolled ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Startup | No Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Recently I've had a problem with being boring. In fact, I have been more successful at captivating people when talking about the newest tidbit of information I learned about Newton's history than... business (gasp!).
Being boring is a problem I don't like having, especially because I so love business (and discussing ...
Posted in Presentation, Thoughts | No Comments »
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
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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 ...
Posted in Yahoo Finance | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Social Media | No Comments »
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