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PersistenceI was listening to an interesting (as always) talk from Gary Vaynerchuk, and he mentioned what he called the "Hot Girl Rule". It goes like this: Nerd Friend: Hey Gary, how can I date a hot girl? Gary: Easy! You go and ask a 100 girls out. Eventually one of them will agree to go out with you.This was in response to someone asking how to sell their website to … 
Catch up on some reading this weekend...(More Members = More Money) ?Can virtual communities make billions of dollars from their millions of connections?This article put online from the print edition of The Economist, takes a look at how social networks have been faring, and how they plan to monetize in the future.This is a good read if you are keeping tabs on the social …
The ProblemConfidential internal documents of Twitter Inc were stolen by a hacker last week. Techcrunch, considered to be a douchebag site by many, published some of those documents online.What's scary is how shockingly simple the hacking was. A recent Twitter employee used the same password for many websites, like most of us do. She also used the same for her gmail account. …
The Browser is a Search EngineRandom people were asked the question "what is a browser?" and you'll be surprised at the answers most of them gave. Maybe it's an American thing? Almost everyone I meet here in Singapore knows what a browser is.
The BingBing launched with a bang, just like any other product from The Corporates would. Bing wants to be the Google killer. The problem with a bang though, is that the noise is gone after the initial...well...bang.Google came onto the scene as a best kept secret. I still remember my high school classmate telling me to try a search engine called Google because it was much …
Break Time!Deadline:Post-ItsThis video is porn for colored Post It addicts. Seems like a lot of hard work went into putting this one together. Just how much hard work you ask? 3 months planning, 4 days shooting, and 6000+ Post Its.ChalkboardAn animated music video from an indie band called FireKites. Brilliantly done. The erase marks left behind (intentionally methinks) adds …
This cartoon by John Martz is what appears for IE6 users on his website Momentile.com. Pretty darn hilarious if you ask me. Find out more at Johnny's blogpost.
The Best of the Best form the Creative Minds at M$MS DOSI love this ad more than I love MS-DOS (no PC should be without it). Microsoft is hip. Microsoft is funky. Microsoft is cutting edge. Look see.Windows 1.0MS-DOS was however given a make-over when the ground-breaking Windows OS came out. Who else better suited to introduce it than the vivacious Mr. Balmer himself.Windows …
Cnet has a video of the Toyota iSwing, a concept car from the Geneva Auto Show 06, which I don't think is a car at all.It can run on 2-wheel or 3-wheel mode. It is maneuvered by.....your n …
Although I wasn’t particularly entertained by Minority Report, I thought (and so did everyone else) that the touch screens they had in the movie were awesome. Definetely material from th …
On the subject of 3rd party ASP.NET controls, there is a pretty good treeview control available from Obout Inc called ASP Treeview. I’m using this control on my applications, and have fo …
I subscribe to the Malware Report, which is a security podcast provided by Eset, the makers of the great anti-virus tool that is NOD32. The recent episode spoke about social networking sites which ask you for a whole lot of information about yourself. It spoke about how ignorant users can give too much info about themselves, making them easily identifiable to not only …
When a VB.NET windows forms programmer moves onto developing ASP.NET applications, sooner or later he comes to the realisation that ASP.NET does not contain a convinient datepicker control like it’s win forms counterpart.However, this is not that much of an issue. A simple google seach on "asp.net datepicker" would bring you a lot of 3rd party components that do …
Adobe Acrobat Reader is slow enough as it is. Recently it started being slower by showing me this message every time I opened a PDF file: "Please wait while the document is being prepared for reading".So if my PDF had a lot of pages, it turned out to be an excruciating wait. Especially when I had to close the file and open it again when I needed to check back on it. It'll …
Client PrimerThis video should probably be included in all initial emails with prospective clients.
This week's link roundup#1 Typekit - Font LicensingThis is a site that's truly on the cutting edge of web design. As browsers set to take on linkable fonts, the main problem has been licensing. Typekit is here to solve that. #2 Dilbert on User ExperienceHere's a collection of the best Dilbert comics on user experience. You can also get the animated podcast …
RFP FailEver wanted to work with a cool client? Ever wanted to get your freak on and push the envelop and go beyond your imagination in web design? The BoysInBlues is the client for you. Question is, can you handle him?
The Baddest TV Commercials of them AllMontgomery Flea MarketI am literally speechless after watching this one. It's so awesome that it has it's own wikipedia page and instigated rapper/flea market owner Sammy Stephens rise to fame.Pontiac StingerThis ad might be the reason this funky 89 Pontiac Stinger concept car has so many haters.KFCThe early 90's saw some pretty bad …
This week's link roundup#1 Twitter's Business ModelTwitter takes a new approach to monetizing by ruling out ads and working on useful tools for users. I'm guessing they're working on a collection of tools which would replace those 3rd party ones.#2 55 Ways to Boost Your EnergyIf you're like me you tend to burn out from time to time. This post on …
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