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May 14, 2008 News and Trends
Moving Industry Goes Green
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:06:48 PDT
I just saw a news article about this and thought it was a great idea. Looks like the New York Movers with those big orange trucks are going green. In today’s world, it’s nice to see that moving companies are trying to do their part....
Once You’re Lucky, Twice Your Bloody Lucky!
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:06:51 PDT
I have thought long and hard about luck and following all this hype around the concept Sarah Lacy is promoting ‘Once Your Lucky, Twice You’re Good’. Well, I disagree with her assertion! Back in my ‘naive days’ I would have argued vigorously that one doesn’t need luck at all, instead innovation, logic, elegance, brutal hard work and a twist of magic were the ingredients essential for success. This would have been while I was building my first empire. During that experience I didn’t get very ric
Xero exceeds year 1 targets
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:07:14 PDT
Xero (a sponsor for this site) has exceeded its post IPO targets. According to the company: 1406 customer acquisitions compared with a target of 1300 in the offer document Cash at May 10th: $8,991,000, $613,000 higher than forecast Subscription revenue: $134,000 Net loss: $4.3 million, lower than anticipated due to higher interest received Substantial pipeline The loss may seem staggering but when you consider the company has not only delivered a full on-demand accounting application, moved
Burma cyclone eye witness accounts
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:07:47 PDT
Burma cyclone eye witness accounts Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, May 14, 2008 5:07 PM Fiddling with DV while Burma dies The earthquake in Sichuan has displaced the Burmese cyclone disaster from the news and invites grim death toll comparisons. Unfortunately, the Burmese government is showing no ability to cope with the disaster on their own, nor are they allowing much outside help in. In this post, we publish two eye witness accounts of the cyclone disaster sent to Danwei by a Burmese citizen
Front page layouts for the Sichuan earthquake
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:07:47 PDT
Front page layouts for the Sichuan earthquake Posted by Joel Martinsen, May 14, 2008 5:00 PM Front Page of the Day is a daily review of the news on the front page of one Chinese newspaper. Beijing newspapers are obtained from newsstands in the CBD; front pages from other cities are found on the web.
Coming Soon to a Book Store Near You: Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists, and Dreamers
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:08:19 PDT
It was only a matter of time... In recent weeks, I have, admittedly, regressed back into a Charlie Kaufman state-of-mind. It's been four years since the domestic release of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and well, I've almost forgotten about how much I love Kaufman - until now. With the premiere of Synecdoche, New York (2008) just around the corner, I've been back on analytical Kaufman mode (in plain English: obsessively pondering about his scripts in postmodernese). A quick Googl
Talking Horses
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:08:46 PDT
Talking Horses James Dart May 14 08, 10:05am: The latest news and best bets from around the country in our daily racing blog
Prolonged Sitting Causes Infant Deaths
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:11:36 PDT
Dr Aurore Cote from the McGill University Health Center, Montreal (Canada) is of the opinion that prolonged sitting of infants less than one month old can cause sudden infant deaths. The study revealed that sitting posture contributed to about 3% of the infant deaths. The study which has been published in the archives of Disease in ...]
3G iPhone available in Black, White and Silver
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:11:49 PDT
After AT&T carrier with the advertising of new iPhone black, now the Swisscom is said to have released prices and some details about the upcoming 3G iPhone. According to Swisscom they are going to sell the 3G iPhone in three colors: black, white and silver. The price list, they say 659 Swiss Francs (about $630) for 16GB version and 799 Swiss Francs (about $760) for 32GB. And good surprise: on the 3G version, iPhone offer more features such as video conferencing, mobile TV and GPS. It sh
News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:12:20 PDT
News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:12 am Categories: General, News to know Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan In Focus » See more posts on: News to know Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho’s Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It’s all about the drivers News.com: Facebo
Attend Placebloggers JTM Conference in Minneapolis
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:12:24 PDT
If you are looking to do community news online or have a placeblog, you might want to attend the Journalism that Matters Conference in Minneapolis –June 4-6, 2008. I’ll be there and, in fact, this PJNet.org site will probably go mostly gray until then as I take a blogging break. Here is more about the conference: One of the first national gatherings for local, online citizen journalists and entrepreneurs, sometimes called “placebloggers.” Designed for existing and prospective journalists a
Google Apps for iPhone
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:13:17 PDT
Google Apps for iPhone Google released an updated interface of its services for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now everything is accessible in an integrated environment: Google Calendar, Google Docs, Reader, Google Notebook, Google News and Blogger. They also implemented search query suggestions, and email auto complete. In addition you can access Google mobile in several languages now. Author
friend of the summit
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:13:47 PDT
For those of you who don’t know, I’m a huge supporter of Creative Commons (CC), and more specifically iCommons. The former is an organization dedicated to open source coding and content for creative technologists, designers, artists, musicians, scientists (and more!), and promotes access and re-mixing through distribution licenses that are alternatives to copyright worldwide. The latter (iCommons) is an international community of the same types, all of whom may use or promote CC, copyfight, pir
Web log analysis
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:14:13 PDT
I’ve posted various metrics about BookMooch before, using numbers from the BookMooch Statistics page. Today, I decided to take all the monthly web logs, combine them into a big excel file, and see what that looks like. My logs start November 1st, 2007: before then I wasn’t saving the web site log data. On most of these charts, I’ve added a 14-day trend-line, so quiet the noisy day-to-day fluctuations. This chart of daily unique visitors (ie, individual people) shows us at around 18,000 dai
ClickBank Shopping Mall
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Wed, 14 May 2008 02:06:48 PDT
I just saw a news article about this and thought it was a great idea. Looks like the New York Movers with those big orange trucks are going green. In today’s world, it’s nice to see that moving companies are trying to do their part....
Once You’re Lucky, Twice Your Bloody Lucky!
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:06:51 PDT
I have thought long and hard about luck and following all this hype around the concept Sarah Lacy is promoting ‘Once Your Lucky, Twice You’re Good’. Well, I disagree with her assertion! Back in my ‘naive days’ I would have argued vigorously that one doesn’t need luck at all, instead innovation, logic, elegance, brutal hard work and a twist of magic were the ingredients essential for success. This would have been while I was building my first empire. During that experience I didn’t get very ric
Xero exceeds year 1 targets
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:07:14 PDT
Xero (a sponsor for this site) has exceeded its post IPO targets. According to the company: 1406 customer acquisitions compared with a target of 1300 in the offer document Cash at May 10th: $8,991,000, $613,000 higher than forecast Subscription revenue: $134,000 Net loss: $4.3 million, lower than anticipated due to higher interest received Substantial pipeline The loss may seem staggering but when you consider the company has not only delivered a full on-demand accounting application, moved
Burma cyclone eye witness accounts
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:07:47 PDT
Burma cyclone eye witness accounts Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, May 14, 2008 5:07 PM Fiddling with DV while Burma dies The earthquake in Sichuan has displaced the Burmese cyclone disaster from the news and invites grim death toll comparisons. Unfortunately, the Burmese government is showing no ability to cope with the disaster on their own, nor are they allowing much outside help in. In this post, we publish two eye witness accounts of the cyclone disaster sent to Danwei by a Burmese citizen
Front page layouts for the Sichuan earthquake
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:07:47 PDT
Front page layouts for the Sichuan earthquake Posted by Joel Martinsen, May 14, 2008 5:00 PM Front Page of the Day is a daily review of the news on the front page of one Chinese newspaper. Beijing newspapers are obtained from newsstands in the CBD; front pages from other cities are found on the web.
Coming Soon to a Book Store Near You: Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists, and Dreamers
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:08:19 PDT
It was only a matter of time... In recent weeks, I have, admittedly, regressed back into a Charlie Kaufman state-of-mind. It's been four years since the domestic release of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and well, I've almost forgotten about how much I love Kaufman - until now. With the premiere of Synecdoche, New York (2008) just around the corner, I've been back on analytical Kaufman mode (in plain English: obsessively pondering about his scripts in postmodernese). A quick Googl
Talking Horses
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:08:46 PDT
Talking Horses James Dart May 14 08, 10:05am: The latest news and best bets from around the country in our daily racing blog
Prolonged Sitting Causes Infant Deaths
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:11:36 PDT
Dr Aurore Cote from the McGill University Health Center, Montreal (Canada) is of the opinion that prolonged sitting of infants less than one month old can cause sudden infant deaths. The study revealed that sitting posture contributed to about 3% of the infant deaths. The study which has been published in the archives of Disease in ...]
3G iPhone available in Black, White and Silver
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:11:49 PDT
After AT&T carrier with the advertising of new iPhone black, now the Swisscom is said to have released prices and some details about the upcoming 3G iPhone. According to Swisscom they are going to sell the 3G iPhone in three colors: black, white and silver. The price list, they say 659 Swiss Francs (about $630) for 16GB version and 799 Swiss Francs (about $760) for 32GB. And good surprise: on the 3G version, iPhone offer more features such as video conferencing, mobile TV and GPS. It sh
News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:12:20 PDT
News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:12 am Categories: General, News to know Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan In Focus » See more posts on: News to know Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho’s Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It’s all about the drivers News.com: Facebo
Attend Placebloggers JTM Conference in Minneapolis
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:12:24 PDT
If you are looking to do community news online or have a placeblog, you might want to attend the Journalism that Matters Conference in Minneapolis –June 4-6, 2008. I’ll be there and, in fact, this PJNet.org site will probably go mostly gray until then as I take a blogging break. Here is more about the conference: One of the first national gatherings for local, online citizen journalists and entrepreneurs, sometimes called “placebloggers.” Designed for existing and prospective journalists a
Google Apps for iPhone
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:13:17 PDT
Google Apps for iPhone Google released an updated interface of its services for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now everything is accessible in an integrated environment: Google Calendar, Google Docs, Reader, Google Notebook, Google News and Blogger. They also implemented search query suggestions, and email auto complete. In addition you can access Google mobile in several languages now. Author
friend of the summit
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:13:47 PDT
For those of you who don’t know, I’m a huge supporter of Creative Commons (CC), and more specifically iCommons. The former is an organization dedicated to open source coding and content for creative technologists, designers, artists, musicians, scientists (and more!), and promotes access and re-mixing through distribution licenses that are alternatives to copyright worldwide. The latter (iCommons) is an international community of the same types, all of whom may use or promote CC, copyfight, pir
Web log analysis
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:14:13 PDT
I’ve posted various metrics about BookMooch before, using numbers from the BookMooch Statistics page. Today, I decided to take all the monthly web logs, combine them into a big excel file, and see what that looks like. My logs start November 1st, 2007: before then I wasn’t saving the web site log data. On most of these charts, I’ve added a 14-day trend-line, so quiet the noisy day-to-day fluctuations. This chart of daily unique visitors (ie, individual people) shows us at around 18,000 dai
ClickBank Shopping Mall
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