February 2009
32 posts
The panhandler's secret
“When there were old-school parking meters in New York, quarters were precious.
One day, I’m walking down the street and a guy comes up to me and says, “Do you have a dollar for four quarters?” He held out his hand with four quarters in it.
Curious, I engaged with him. I took out a dollar bill and took the four quarters.
Then he turned to me and said, “can...
“Ad spend on digital media eclipsing the ad spend on television for the first...”
– via Marketingweb
I must say, this stat really blew me away!
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized →
"Eradicate this fortification"
“A professor once told me to use Anglo-Saxon-based words instead of so many fancy Latin-based words. “Who can tell which is which?” I asked. “Hit your thumb with a hammer. The next 50 words that come out of your mouth will be all Anglo Saxon-based.” - Glenn Kelman
Click through for a good read in how to give a great presentation.
“Eradicate this Fortification!” & 22 Other Tips...
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Facebook Surpasses 175 Million Users, Growing By... →
… and now 1,174,120 in South Africa too. Nice!
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“By January 2012, most mobile phones will support the universal charger.”
– According to the GSM Association
via Universal Chargers to Finally Become a Reality - PC World
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10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites →
This article hits the nail on the head.
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“99.8% uptime means DOUBLE the downtime of 99.9%. They look close, but a 99.9%...”
– Royal Pingdom » 6 gotchas about web hosting quality and reliability
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This looks like good news...
“A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.” …
via Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant -...
WatchOK, time to lighten-up a bit. I get mixed reaction to my iPhone. (A little bit of phone-envy here, a little bit of “what, no MMS, no copy ‘n paste?”) But, it’s still worth it. The Apple iPhone 3G is the best. (Until Apple brings out the 4G. Arrgh!)
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WatchThis stop-motion production totally captured my imagination this morning. Wow, beautifully produced!
You cal also watch it here
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Fly.com sells for $1.76 million →
Fly.com sells for $1.76 million (not to mention YP.com selling for $3,850,000) is a good example that the web boom is very much alive (amidst all the financial market doom and gloom).
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This Is Not a Recession - Tom Peters
by Tom Peters
Don’t think of our current economic crisis as a recession. Instead, think of it as a recalibration.
Everything is different now.
If you think of it as a recession, you may be tempted to “hunker down” and wait for the economy to cycle back.
If you think of it as a recalibration, you will be motivated to focus on what you have to do differently, since everything...