May 2012
12 posts
WYSIHTML5 - A Better Approach to Rich Text Editing →
Wysihtml5 is an open source rich text editor based on HTML5 technology and the progressive-enhancement approach. It uses a sophisticated security concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles.
“What GM’s retreat really shows is the harsh reality that other brands must face:...”
– Why GM and Others Fail With Facebook Ads - Businessweek (via futuristgerd)
Business as Usual →
“In one of the biggest IPOs in history, in which a huge amount of stock was sold to small investors, privileged Wall Street insiders once again got top-notch information…and individuals got the shaft.”
Sensationalism and the downside of modern media →
With the proliferation of bloggers and twitter, and tech conferences, “everyone” seems to be an internet industry expert. While this is usually just annoying background noise to me (think airliners and road traffic noise) it sometimes gets under my skin. Yesterday was one of those days. The Wall Street Journal publishes an article about GM ending a modest (to GM) marketing spend with...
IN ADVERTISING, AS IN LOVE, DESPERATION NEVER...
Who at RIM approved this campaign? Sadly, I couldn’t even get through it, poorly strategized, poorly executed.
Poor judgement.
adteachings:
Case in point, this new BlackBerry site, which attempts to woo iPhone users by insulting them: http://wakeupbebold.com/
Asymco: The Phone (Hardware) Market in 2012 →
“The new market disruption is the migration of a large number of demanding customers away from phones-as-voice-products to phones-as-computing-products. The low-end disruption is the migration of a large number of less demanding customers from branded phones to unbranded, commodity phones.”
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc →
“Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one.”
A little Wednesday morning Latin….
Infographic: The Ins and Outs of Business...
winfographics:
From: Ft Lauderdale Buick Via: Automotive SEO
Business intelligence: start with the right... →
April 2012
18 posts
Curious Rat: Google Drive vs Dropbox Terms →
Don’t be evil……
“Sharing is predictable, and follows specific patterns over time. There are two...”
– Bitly to Launch New Consumer Version (via thenextweb)
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Google Consumer Surveys →
Decent value, great idea from Google. The only thing that isn’t clear is what Google can do with the data. Their global terms of service imply that they can use the data to improve the services, but it’s potentially another gold mine of data for Google analysis. Just keep in mind that like any kind of quantitative analysis, coming up with the correct questions is the hard part….
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Narcissistic leadership →
One of the common traits of successful people is the desire to always improve. I always try improve key business, technical and management skills. So here I am reading about business and leadership theory and I come across this term I’m not familiar with.
“Narcissists profess company loyalty but are only really committed to their own agendas, thus organizational decisions are founded...
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SpaceX Costs - Elon Musk →
I pay attention for professional reasons due to an amazing client we have. But it’s refreshing to read a CEO that doesn’t just say a lot while saying nothing.
The Fruugo Story →
Something in this article really bothered me, and I wanted to comment on it, but I didn’t want to have to register for ArcticStartup to do so.
The author writes the following statement, “Larger companies can usually afford to work through the uneffective waterfall model where as startups need to iterate constantly and be in contact with their users, clients and customers to better...
daniel sinker: Ian MacKaye turned 50 today →
Ah, Ian MacKaye, a guy who stood by his business ethics and business model, while creating and supporting vastly underrated influential music.
sinker:
I was lucky enough to interview him a few times, including one that appears in the Punk Planet book. There’s an exchange in that interview that, as I get older, I think about often:
I was cleaning my room once and I was listening to Led...
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March 2012
5 posts
“I don’t count my chickens until the ink is dry.”
– Sean Abel
La Baraka: No way I am calling you for a price →
Where exactly did you find pricing on the website? I see CTA’s that involve calling them…
labaraka:
We’ve outgrowing the manual payroll process we’ve been using so far so I was looking for a managed payroll solution.
I already knew about ADP and Ceridian but decided to quickly check with Uncle Google to see if there are other options in Canada. Turns out that, yes, there are...
“people are much more productive and healthy when they can connect their values...”
– So true….
Ryan Vanderbilt from Building Better Businesses By Closing The Happiness Gap (via fastcompany)
February 2012
19 posts
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Scroogled (By Cory Doctorow) →
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Resume and Linked-in tip, free of charge
A resume, and especially a Linkedin profile, is understood to have been written by the person it describes.
Do not talk about yourself in 3rd person. You are not Lebron James.
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Great, no... Titanic Machine →
Nice to read about this happening in North America and not Asia. Reminds Americans to remember to think big again.
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Moveable Online is hiring again....
Project Manager - Contract to Hire
Job Description
Moveable Online is looking for a Project Manager with web application development experience that uses sound judgment and common sense to make critical business decisions.
This is not an entry level Project Management role; This person should have some background in project reconciliation to ensure accurate billing, as well as account...
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“The easy explanation for what happened to R.I.M. is that, like so many other...”
– Research in Motion and the BlackBerry’s Rise and Fall : The New Yorker (via mediafuturist)
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Smartphones: Is it about security or productivity? →
I find Blackberry devices to be vastly superior for email than anything else. They are also a little more secure as data is centrally routed and encrypted.
But the economy is about productivity, not security. That is why people are switching. You can just do more faster on an iPhone and some Android devices.
Love the comment in the thread below the article from the “executive” who...
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Twitter Bootstrap UI Omnigraffle Stencil →
From the author, Troy Murphy:
“I suggest the following as you use this template:
Create or rename a canvas to be “Default”
Right-click on the “Default” canvass and select “New Shared Layer”
Renamed the new shared layer (which is brown in color) to “Grid”
Open the Canvas Inspector (Command + 3) and set the following properties:
“Size...
The internet, the great equalizer →
I’ve been saying for years that if you want me to advertise your brand (by wearing apparel with prominent logos) you should write me a check. And if you want to collect my personal data to sell, please cut me in on the deal and I just might oblige. Well, now Google is doing just that.
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How times have changed.....
As an entrepreneur that went through the dot com collapse over a decade ago, it’s fascinating that it used to be difficult to get meetings with VC.
Now they cold call us.
Times have changed……
“If you delegate you can influence dozens of things rather than controlling one...”
– Sean Abel