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Starbuck’s Sales are Cold
via Starsight's Weblog by starsight on February 10, 2008
Snowfire DropsOriginally uploaded by nodigiohttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7219458.stmI’ll tell you why I don’t patronize Starbuck’s. I have a long list of reasons, starting with Bad Coffee. Coffee is not that hard to make. People have been doing it for a very long time.So why does Starbuck’s get it wrong? They get it wrong because they use burned beans. If the bean is bad, the...
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Forget the A-List After All
via How to Change the World by GuyKawasaki on January 27, 2008
You’ve got to read “Is the Tipping Point Toast?” by Clive Thompson in FastCompany. The gist of Thompson’s piece, based on the work of Duncan Watts of Yahoo Research, is that the theory that a select few “key influencers” matter more than “the rest of us” when it comes to viral and word-of-mouth marketing campaigns is flawed. Said Watts: “It [achieving marketing success...
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Visualizing Social Media Fatigue
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on February 07, 2008
Our attention is stretched so thin these days that there are times when I have actually tried to register for what I thought was a new service only to realize later that I already had an account -- it just got lost in the shuffle. With so many new web sites and services vying for our attention it is easy to feel the effects of social media fatigue. Andrew Shuttleworth, a social media junky...
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Google Shows When It First Indexed a Page
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on February 09, 2008
If you use Google's advanced options to restrict the search results to a certain period of time, you'll find that Google shows the date when each web page has been first indexed (in many cases, this is a good approximation of the date when a web page has been created).As previously mentioned, you can edit Google's URL to customize how fresh the search results should be. For example,...
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