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There are 3 ways to get a Google Wave invitation:- Apply for a job in Google. - Bug a Google worker to get you one- Request an invite here: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/Enjoy it !

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I have been working in Google for a while and we studied different call to action words/sentence in order to make ads more effective. One of the best call to action is : "buy now". You should use it when planning an advertising campaign to generate sales. But why does it work ?The reason lies in a study conducted by four Princeton psychologysts aimed at scanning subjects' brain as they were

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Today there was a terrible earthquake in the hearth of Italy. Here some pictures reminding us of the crude reality of life.

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I have worked in Google for more than two years and I enjoy the world of advertising. Unfortunately, I live in a country (Italy) where creative advertising is associated with pictures of naked women. This is how creative Italian ad agencies are. Therefore I am extremely happy when I come across some well written ads and funny ideas, like the ones below from Miele, a German manufacturer of

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The thing about being optimistic is that it takes a lot of hard work. It's an active process, say psychologists, through which you force yourself to see your life a certain way. Indeed, the leading optimism and happiness experts consider themselves born pessimists. But if they have learned over time and with lots of practice to become more hopeful, so can you.Tal Ben-Shahar is a Harvard professor

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The World is changing, people are changing.When you post a video to YouTube, no one asks you if you went to film school. When you write a blog, no one cares whether you have a journalism degree. Position, title, and academic degrees—none of the usual status differentiators carry much weight online. On the Web, what counts is not your resume, but what you can contribute.

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Finally Skype has arrived on the most expensive and trendy phone on the planet. Who cares? A lot of us actually care, because we are all eager to make free or cheap phone call to everyone, everywhere...but is it really worth ?There are two main issues that make me think this is just half of a great project. You can only make calls while you are on a wi-fi network. Apple's restrictions on the use

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No matter how good you think you are - you can only work on one single thing at any one time. And that one thing you decide to work on is the highest priority item to you at that time. Somehow in your decision making process you have come to the conclusion that the particular item is the highest priority possible. IGet a notebook and do the following:i) First thing in the morning, take 5

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In order to better manage with your full inbox you need to know the 4 Ds of Email Management. For each email you receive you have to do one of the following 4 actions: 1) Delete it = it isn't relevant to you or should be deleted after a quick scan2) Do it = Do it now - before you read the next email. Any item that takes less than 2 minutes to complete should be done now.3) Delegate it = Have

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Like the "one laptop for a child" campaign, this is a fantastic, disrupting, useful innovation.Professor Joshua D Silver, while studying mirrors, discovered a new way to change the curvature of lenses. He applied this to create a new form of liquid-filled corrective lens, that could be easily adjusted by the wearer to correct the vision of over 90% of people requiring correction. This is

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YouTube, hoping to counter the competition from sites like NBC and Hulu, has started running full-length episodes of CBS programming. Executives at the Google-owned video site told Reuters that CBS would handle ad sales for its shows and share the revenue with YouTube. In the meantime, CBS does not have a programming deal with Hulu, although the video site does direct users who search for that

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The title says it all.WorldMate Live: check your flight on real timeWorldMate Live will manage your full itinerary, including travel arrangements and business meetings, making all details immediately accessible on your mobile device, and ensure smooth as possible trip by pushing alerts regarding imminent events.Free features available include the My Itineraries function, which stores information

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The author is unknown, the story is amazing, enjoy it :An American businessman was standing at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish."How long it took you to catch them?" The American asked."Only a little while." The

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This is taken from a Martin Luther King speech:“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse

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1. Think of a situation, product, or concept, related to a challenge you are facing, and think about the assumptions associated to that situation2. Write down those assumptions; then reverse them3. Finally, think about how to make those reversal meaningfulExample taken from "Cracking Creativity" by Michael MichalkoSuppose you wish to open a restaurant but are having difficulty coming up with new

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This is one of the presentation which won the Slideshare competition.Zimbabwe in CrisisView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: refugee hyperinflation)Robert Mugabe once was hailed as a symbol of the new Africa, but under his rule the health and well-being of his people have dropped dramatically, which is as much an abuse of human rights as arbitrary arrest and torture. According

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I agree with Nicholas Carr that states :To Google, the browser has become a weak link in the cloud system - the needle's eye through which the outputs of the company's massive data centers usually have to pass to reach the user - and as a result the browser has to be rethought, revamped, retooled, modernized.Its real goal, embedded in Chrome's open-source code, is to upgrade the capabilities of

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According to some rumours Google is about to launch a new web browser.What would happen if Google decides to release a Safari-based browser? A Google Browser would give the Webkit platform instant credibility and would definitely be a huge hit (and it will be Open Source). If Google offered a browser that was as powerful, reliable and easy to use as their search engine and didn't mess up with our

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Steven Levitt did a great speech at TED . He told the story of the car seats.Turns out that car seats for kids over 2 are no more effective than seat belts.His study took in consideration 45,000 cra crashes during 30 years, from 1975 to 2005.So if it's so clear, and if it means that Americans are wasting $300 million a year on car seats, what's going on?Why is it that in New York State it's a

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Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings.Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery. A study in the February issue of the Oncologist reports that cancer patients who engaged in expressive

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Raymond Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist. He has been a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments.Here are his predictions: * Supercomputers will have the same raw power as human brains (although not yet the equivalently flexible software). * Computers will disappear as

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There are two synergestic approaches (or laws) for increasing productivity that are inversions to each other:1. Pareto's Law (the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity)Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time.It is a common rule of thumb in business that 80% of your sales comes from 20% of your clients. Focus on this 20% who make up the majority of

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I did not know the organization Make a Wish whose mission is to create hope and happiness for children with life-threatening illnesses around the world outside of the United States.The creation of the Make-A-Wish Foundation was inspired in the U.S. in 1980 by the fulfillment of a wish of a 7-year-old boy with leukemia named Chris Greicius, who wished to be a policeman. His mother, several friends

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The Internet, conceived as a research and a productivity tool, has become a weapon of mass distraction. A study by the University of Illinois and Microsoft found that it takes, on average, 16 minutes and 33 seconds for a wroker interrupted by an email to get back to what he/she was doing before receiving the email.Stop checking emails every five minutes, it will boost your productivity.Even Intel

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I am a locavor, but what does it mean ??Locavor is someone who mainly eats local food.Localization of food systems is often advocated as a way to reestablish connections between producers and consumers, and as a way to achieve specific social and environmental goals. Advocates of local food systems often state that:- Eating locally reduces the food miles (and therefore carbon emissions) of food.

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