Ade in Business

It’s no secret that blogs are a great advertising medium. The trick for companies is finding out how to attract the attention of bloggers to get them to talk about their product.
PokerStars, an online poker site, has figured out a way by offering up around $40k of prizes to bloggers via a free tournament. [...]

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One of the things that worries me is that one of the big guns like Microsoft, Google or Yahoo will announce a product that competes head-to-head with one of my mine, or makes a move that otherwise makes mine obsolete in some way. It’s nothing that I lose sleep over, but something that crosses [...]

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I’m taking back the praise I gave Insight about a month ago. Since I wrote that entry, there have been two instances where my Internet connection has been down for several hours, and each time I couldn’t get through Insight support because all their lines were busy.
Well, I finally got through the second time [...]

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This past weekend my wife and I tackled the task of repainting and rearranging my office. The office used to be a dark navy blue that only a 12-year old boy could love, and she’s wanted to paint over it ever since we got the place. Also spurring me to tackle the project [...]

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I found the site “Is Lost a Repeat?” by way of “Signal vs. Noise” yesterday and fell in love with it. Part of the reason is that I’m a big fan of the TV show “Lost“, but the other is that it’s so refreshingly basic.
I can’t think of how a site could be any [...]

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