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helloyoucreatives: Keep this up and you might as well become a...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:00:45 -0500

helloyoucreatives:

Keep this up and you might as well become a copywriter.

WePay: The Online Payment Start-Up Behind Occupy Wall Street - Forbes

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:29:17 -0500

WePay: The Online Payment Start-Up Behind Occupy Wall Street - Forbes:

I would love to spend a day as a fly on the wall in WePay’s underwriting department.

WePay has big 2011, still hopes for 'balls to the wall' 2012 | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:24:43 -0500

WePay has big 2011, still hopes for 'balls to the wall' 2012 | Geek Gestalt - CNET News

Immigrant Song, as a PowerPoint (from @FlyoverJoel)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:22:42 -0500

Immigrant Song, as a PowerPoint (from @FlyoverJoel):

meetingboy:

Have you ever wondered what Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song would look like if it was written by a modern day marketing manager? Well wonder no more. Hilarious!

Immigrant Song

View more PowerPoint from FlyoverJoel

"When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves..."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:35:43 -0500

“When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes…”

- MSDN Blogs

In case we needed another reminder that Google is first and foremost an ad network.

(via Microsoft unveils new Metro style logo for Windows 8 | The...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:18:23 -0500

(via Microsoft unveils new Metro style logo for Windows 8 | The Verge)

The Windows window looks like a window now, instead of a flag! This new Metro-influenced styling almost makes me want to take a closer look at Windows again.

The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies | Fast Company

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:21:22 -0500

The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies | Fast Company:

It’s a solid list. Some are more “cool” than honestly “innovative”, but they’re all worth taking a look at.

"Kodak’s sales in their film division increased 20% last year, and this division continues to..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:21:53 -0500

“Kodak’s sales in their film division increased 20% last year, and this division continues to be a profitable segment.”

- Freestyle - Snapshot of The Industry

An important reminder that “common sense” can be wrong. Film is still a vital medium, even though it lacks the mainstream presence it once had.

"It is not, as it turns out, necessary to be a micromanaging psychopath with narcissistic personality..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:23:53 -0500

“It is not, as it turns out, necessary to be a micromanaging psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder (or even to pretend to be one) if you just hire smart people and give them real authority. The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young “incubator twerps” strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine that’s what made Steve Jobs a design genius. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, young twerp. Maybe try wearing a black turtleneck too. For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them build great things in a nurturing environment of empowerment and it was AWESOME. That doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It doesn’t mean letting people do bad work. It means hiring smart people who get things done—and then getting the hell out of the way.”

- A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky

Pretty much my sentiments exactly.

(via buzz)

Thirded.

(via rickwebb)

helloinstrument: Here are some of JD’s finer points from his...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:47:29 -0500

helloinstrument:

Here are some of JD’s finer points from his talk at CreativeMornings this morning. We will link the video of his full presentation when it surfaces. Thanks to everyone who came out and to the sponsors Ziba, 52 Limited, Pro Photo Supply and Scout Books for their support.

Photo: Matty Jasperson

-ZB

File under: Tattoo Ideas

brainmatter: elspethjane: I’ve always wondered about the...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:01:20 -0500

brainmatter:

elspethjane:

I’ve always wondered about the quality of ordering business cards online, and here’s a great photo of the differences in companies.

I can vouch for Moo, we’ve ordered cards from them a few times now and they really are that good - all the way down to the cute little box they’re packaged in, the branding, the cheeky e-mails. Their space to own, for as far as the eye can see.

The Moo cards are very nice, especially since you can try different designs relatively cheaply and quickly. The only potential drawback is that their cards are considerably larger than we’re used to in the US, but you may see that as a benefit, when your Moo cards literally stick out from the crowd.

John Scalzi on the Komen Debacle

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:34:05 -0500

pagent:

“Leaving out any direct issues of morality or politics (I know, I know, go with me for a minute here), what’s basically happened is that on account of $700,000 worth of grants, the Susan G. Komen Foundation in just one week wrecked a billion-dollar brand identity that took decades to develop. Solely from the point of view of policy and brand strategy, it’s impressive in an entirely horrifying way.”

- Whatever

"According to the survey, adrenaline experiences like speed-boating and bungee jumping are considered..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:53:51 -0500

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According to the survey, adrenaline experiences like speed-boating and bungee jumping are considered the least effective team-building activities, followed by trust exercises such as being blindfolded and led by colleagues.

Those deemed most effective are social events like going out for a drink or a meal, followed by volunteering and charity work.

”

- Team building doesn’t improve work - Telegraph

"It’s easy not to “be evil” when you’re ahead. But when you’re backed into a corner and your usual..."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:39:13 -0500

“It’s easy not to “be evil” when you’re ahead. But when you’re backed into a corner and your usual strategies aren’t working, it’s easy to get frustrated, scared, and angry, and throw previously held morals and standards out the window.”

- Against the wall – Marco.org

"This is both adorable and some of the best and most authentic field research out there."

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:26:00 -0500

“This is both adorable and some of the best and most authentic field research out there.”

- In Brief: 5-year-old Analyzes Logos - Brand New

fastcompany: Could A Rebranding Help Give Teachers The Prestige...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:00:30 -0500

fastcompany:

Could A Rebranding Help Give Teachers The Prestige They Deserve? The Brooklyn-based design studio Hyperakt schools teachers on honing their image through branding.

Read on->

"It’s not good enough just to have an amazing product and a healthy bank balance. Long-term..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:38:54 -0500

“It’s not good enough just to have an amazing product and a healthy bank balance. Long-term success is dependent on a culture that is nurtured and alive. Culture is the environment in which your strategy and your brand thrives or dies a slow death.”

- Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch | Fast Company

"I’m not saying Google falls as a result of this mistake — that would be foolish, they’re too big to..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:10:02 -0500

“I’m not saying Google falls as a result of this mistake — that would be foolish, they’re too big to fail anytime soon — but I do think that over an extended period of time, whether users consciously realize it or not, they’ll start looking elsewhere for their information needs because Google has strayed from their foundation.”

- Evil, Greed, And Antitrust Aren’t Google’s Real Problems, Relevancy Is | PandoDaily

buzz: I had never seen this internal Microsoft video mockingly...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:02:55 -0500

buzz:

I had never seen this internal Microsoft video mockingly imagining how the company might redesign Apple’s iPod packaging, but it’s a brilliant parody of the worst excesses in packaging design. (via MacRumors)

Sometimes you have to laugh through the pain.

"The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry,..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:52:15 -0500

“The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry, they’re efficiently and ruthlessly disrupting the traditional model of venture capital and are going to destroy far more more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves, as broadband did to entertainment, Craigslist did to newspapers, and Amazon did to traditional retailers. This is what outsiders, by definition, do.”

- On the Evolution of Investing — Matt Mullenweg