Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Once a niche market among a select few, gaming has grown by leaps and bounds from its humble beginnings. As various role playing games and more mainstream console based games grow in the popularity, the Internet has encouraged the change in the way our society views and uses these brands. ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
As computer companies flood the market in an attempt take control of the computer technology industry, it can be difficult to choose a laptop that fits your unique needs. When computers first hit the market they were terribly cost prohibitive, so technology was only available to the elite few ...
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Saturday, February 19th, 2011
Rent or buy? That's it? Are you kidding? We are talking about where we live our lives and we only have two choices? Seems like the streets or life on the road would be better at times.
Then why not have a Real Estate product that puts a portion of current ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Part 1 of "The dreaded 'Idea'" spouts freely new notions concerning Twitter and iPhone/iPod Apps & iOS along with a short treatise-like rant on ideas.
Media
Monetizing great content stuck on crusty websites
An opportunity exsists for acquiring old, but authoritative content that ranks good. This written treasure is often buried on neglected websites. There's plenty ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
The title of this seven minute TED Talk from Dan Cobley is "What physics taught me about marketing." Dan draws parallels between marketing and four major principals in physics.
1. Rearranging Newton's Second Law gives us acceleration equals force over mass. Meaning the larger a particle is, the more force it takes to change direction. ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Ah, the "Idea." Hardly will we find anything more polarizing.
For seemingly half of us, just the word "idea" alone seems to conjure high-mindedness, nobility and is lauded up above so much else. The other half snubs/thumbs their noise at the word and "ideas" hardly even register as a ...
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
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These screenshots popped up today, looking something like the much discussed, much anticipated "Google Drive". In mid January, Google announced plans to start rolling out cloud storage. Seems you get a free gigabyte of file storage -- for any type of file and may ...
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Business lessons from Jason Fried
Jason Fried of 37signals.com spoke at BIG Omaha in 2009. His talk hit home hard. Here's a sort of summary of what Jason said there. Listen to it if you'd like. (Approximate time: 20 minutes.)
Failure
"Fail early, fail often." rarely makes sense.
Failure only instructs on what NOT ...
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