April 2010
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Apr 30th
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Are you a Maven?
Someone CC’d me on an email a few weeks ago where they were introducing me to an acquaintence. He said I was a maven. A what, I thought? Wikipedia says: “A maven (also mavin) is a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others. The word maven comes from the Hebrew, via Yiddish, and means one who understands, based on an accumulation of...
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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WatchWatch
Death by PowerPoint This must be one of the best presentations about presentations around. Do yourself a favour, take 5 minutes and watch it. Full screen.  Then implement just 1 or 2 of these ideas into your next presentation, and then call me in the morning.
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Docs.com launches. Will you use it? →
This seems a bit premature to me. What do you think? http://www.docs.com/
Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Google's Profit Up 37 Percent In 1Q As Revenue... →
Hardly a week goes by without me having to explain to some (usually well-educated) business person just exactly how Google makes money!  Seriously folks, these guys think Google is a weird internet fad thingy that still “doesn’t make any money, because I have never paid them”, or sometimes I get the, “I know Google sells ads, but I never click on them, so I am sure no-one...
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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American Youth: TV Habits
In 2/3 of households, TVs are on during meals  In 75% of households, TVs are on when no one is watching them.  More than 70% of kids have TVs in their bedrooms Read the full survey here
Apr 20th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Expose yourself...
With so many options in media, interaction and venues, you now get to choose what you expose yourself to. Expose yourself to art, and you’ll come to appreciate it and aspire to make it. Expose yourself to anonymous scathing critics and you will begin to believe them (or flinch in anticipation of their next appearance.) Expose yourself to get-rich-quick stories and you’ll want to...
Apr 17th
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South African Internet Growth Stats
“According to the Nielsen data, the number of South Africans accessing the Web at least monthly increased 53% year on year, to 7,5m people in the last quarter of 2009. Unique monthly browsers, both domestic and international, increased 52% to reach 14,9m.”
Apr 17th
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“Design is a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.”
– Erik Adigard 
Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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“Good design at the front-end suggests that everything is in order at the...”
– Dmitry Fadeyev | Quotes on Design
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 9th
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“The iPad is big iPod Touch in the same way that a swimming pool is a big bath!”
– Unknown commenter on a blog.
Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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“The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its...”
– BBC News - Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule change
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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WatchWatch
Have you eaten a frog yet today? Seems like a good habit to get into. OK, I’m off to catch that frog. So, what’s you frog today?
Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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400 billion Lego bricks
Apparently over 400 billion Lego bricks have been manufactured since 1949. Stacked ontop of each other, that’s enough to connect the Earth and the Moon 10 times over!
Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
March 2010
58 posts
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Mar 31st