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Lifeblog: Blood from stone: Don’t focus on ad revenue from social networking services
Yes, social network is the concentrator, but what the folks end up doing is where the money’s at. One good example is O’Reilly. Is it a social networking service? Sure is. Where do they make money? Selling info to the network
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Wow. Just wow. (Guess the company) « Fromthemindofj’s Weblog
As I stood up to greet him, I was clad in pressed dress pants, and a pinstripe shirt, with a tie. He was wearing, once again, I am not making this up: workout sweats, a wife beater, and a North Face fleece.
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Starbucks’ Retro Logo | Business Week
This time, she is a messenger for Chairman Howard Schultz, who is trying to restore some of the goodwill and warm feelings for the brand that have gone by the wayside because of increasing coffee prices, machine-made lattes, and bad press.
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Noisy Decent Graphics: Little ideas adapted by big companies
In fact, that’s one of my favourite types of ideas. One that just builds over time and then gets adapted by a business or an organsiation.
(tags: advertising marketing innovation noisydecentgraphics wine packaging design)

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YouTube Inspires Employee to Stop Thief - AOL News
“What was going through my mind at that point was that the security tape is either going to show me run away and hide in the office or whack this guy in the head, so I just grabbed the cup and clocked the guy pretty hard”
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Irrational economics | Look and feel | Economist.com
People offered the banknote believed, on average, that they could use it to buy 83 paperclips, 72 napkins or 46 sweets. Those offered the coin thought 39 paperclips, 51 napkins or 27 sweets. In other words, the note was believed to be almost twice as valu
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