April 2010
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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...
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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.
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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/
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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...
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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
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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...
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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.”
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Design is a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
– Erik Adigard
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Good design at the front-end suggests that everything is in order at the...
– Dmitry Fadeyev | Quotes on Design
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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.
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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
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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?
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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!
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March 2010
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