Robert Afnani
GTA IV To Have âHot Coffeeâ? -I’m not one to spawn rumors around the masses of the Internet for self-glorification and e-penis enlargement. But I did come accross some interesting (yet, based) rumor the other day: that Grand Theft Auto IV (for 360 and PS3) could possibly have the infamous “Hot Coffee” mod built-into it. And might not be [...] more »
Hard Drive Crashed, Dâoh! -In a surprising chapter of events (or not so surprising, given how perfectly working things tend to fall apart on me all the time), my main desktop’s hard drive crashed on 4/4/08. It was a three-year-old Western Digital 160 GB 8 MB cache IDE hard drive, originally purchased for well over $150. At [...] more »
Marko Ahtisaari
Blyk UK hits 100,000 members -Blyk UK has reached 100,000 members. This is an important milestone in building a media for young people. See Shaun Gregory's post on the Blyk company blog. And coverage in The Daily Telegraph today: Yesterday's blip could be today's Blyk... more »
Blyk - an "open code" brand -Many people have asked me about the Blyk animations that are making the rounds on the Internet (like this one: Blyk by Beatrice Richardson) and about the design of the Blyk brand identity. When we started designing the Blyk brand... more »
Paul Allen
iPhone developers, unite! -A few months ago, after feeling the initial rush of getting a million users of our Facebook app We're Related in just 29 days, I set up a Facebook group with an admittedly dumb name: Utah CEOs With a Facebook Strategy. It now has 488 members. We met a couple of times in Provo earlier this year. Jason McGowan and Michael Jensen from our team at FamilyLink.com shared with about 30-40 attendees more »
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Danny Ainge -Tuesday night the Boston Celtics won the NBA World
Championship (4-2) by beating the Los Angelels Lakers by 39 points in game six
at Boston Gardens.
The Celtics won only 24 games last year, but this year
experienced the single biggest turnabout in NBA history, after Danny Ainge
orchestrated two major trades last summer, bringing Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen
to more »
Michael Allison
Flying High on Old Ideas -First, it started with Wikipedia, then Dell came out with IdeaStorm. Now, the latest example of crowdsourcing is My Starbucks Idea. Web 2.0 is revolutionizing the way business is done, isn’t it?
Wait a minute, let’s see…
In the article Right Away and All at Once: How We Saved Continental in Harvard Business Review, the author and [...] more »
Discovering Ethics for Working in PR -After a long, drawn-out discussion on ethics in PR, Joe Thornley phoned into Inside Public Relations 108 refuting the claim that PR practitioners are “just like lawyers [who] can work for clients who may be…ethically dubious because everyone deserves a good public relations defence in the same way everyone is entitled to legal defence.”
Instead, [...] more »
Julia Allison
MY CURRENT BLOG IS OVER AT TUMBLR -GO ON over there now! I'm going to integrate the two blogs and update my SORELY IN NEED OF IT website Very, Very Soon.... more »
Still my favorite lip dub -Filmed in the Dominican Republic last November. No pink iPods were harmed in the making of this lip dub.... more »
Brian Alvey
Hulk movie mania -I saw in my feed reader that Cinematical picked up our ComicMix article listing all the Hulk comics you should read to get up to speed on the character before seeing the movie that opens tomorrow. When I clicked through I saw that Cinematical had redesigned. Wow, more »
Before you go see the Hulk movie -ComicMix has a great series where they list all of the comics you should read before seeing a hot new superhero movie. They pick the definitive story arcs in a character's history -- including the ones the movies' plots are likely based on.
They started out with 11 Batman Stories to Read Before Watching The Dark Knight and more »
Ryan Anderson
Social Media Breakfast returns -After a stupendously successful first time bringing Social Media Breakfast to Ottawa, we’re doing it again, and this time the founder of the entire movement will be making the drive from Boston to Ottawa to join us.
This month’s speaker is Rob Lane, CEO of Overlay.tv - an Ottawa-based startup that allows producers to customize and [...] more »
Emphatic ignorance is a difficult stumbling block -Regardless of the field you work or live in, ignorance of what you do or the community you participate is maddening, depressing and disheartening. It’s what causes rifts in organizations, and is why communicators don’t get along with lawyers, why creatives don’t get along with suits, and why engineers don’t get along with… well, anyone.
Even [...] more »
Rikard Andersson
Mr and Mrs Andersson -That’s right, she said yes! ;-) more »
New theme again -I got fed up with the old theme, so I decided to try something else. I’m pretty pleased with the result. Only thing I’m not liking so much is the sidebar. The archive list is getting a bit too long and without it, I’ll have to put something else in the sidebar or move it [...] more »
Marc Andreessen
Anger management is the key -[Link: A young Bill O'Reilly demonstrates the grace under pressure that ultimately led to a successful Fox News broadcasting career.] more »
Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web -First, I'm very happy to say that Ning will be rolling out our formal production support for Open Social in June. In case you missed the news at the time, Open Social is a standard way, sponsored by Google, to... more »
Bob Angus
My Favorite Super Bowl Ad of All-Time -I am really looking forward to the Super Bowl on Sunday. I expect a better game than the point spread indicates. Of course, the Super Bowl analysis will be on two fronts - what happened between the lines and what happened during the commercial breaks. Here is my all-time favorite Super Bowl advertisement.
Thank you eTrade [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My Favorite Super Bowl Ad of All-Time", url: "http://www.bobangus.com/2008/02/01/my-favorite-super-bowl-ad more »
Prime Angus Filets: Links this Week 1-11-2008 -More on Twitter
Sam Harrelson mentions my Twitter post in his daily Affiliate Fortune Cookie podcast and provides some great insight on how he uses Twitter as a communication tool. My takeaway from his recommendations are that Twitter spam and self-promoting broadcasts are the same unwanted communication as the telemarketer that calls you during dinner. Do [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Prime Angus Filets: Links this Week 1-11-2008", url: "http://www.bobangus.co more »
Ali Asaria
Free Shipping and Drawbacks to the Web 2.0 Pricing Strategy of Lowering Entry Costs -We’ve had an overwhelmingly positive response to our movement to free shipping. I like one blogger who wrote:
“Well.ca goes Free Shipping. Holy S[**]t.”
Thank you blogosphere, for all the positive feedback!
This post, however, is about the negative feedback.
I believe that our launch of free shipping leads to some lessons to learn for all Web 2.0 companies [...] more »
Well.ca goes Free Shipping -Yeah, we did it:
Well.ca is doing a bunch of things differently starting today.
SHIFT IN PHILOSOPHY
When we started this company, we sat together to develop a customer service philosophy. This is what we came up with:
“Let’s surpass our customers’ expectations”
Just beating our customers’ expectations is no longer our goal.
Our goal, now, is to WOW them.
Things [...] more »
