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Entries Tagged as 'General'

Blowing Your Own Trumpet

January 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Design, General, Marketing, Web Design

‘People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.’
(- Seth Godin )
Seth Godin recently discussed this truism of the web in a post:
Boingboing’s ‘Cory and Mark both have terrific books out. And as co-editors on the world’s most popular blog, you’d think that they could use boingboing to sell a ton of [...]

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Facebook Data Findings

December 30th, 2007 · No Comments · General, Social Network Site, Web Design

Several research projects being done on the social network site, Facebook, are described in an interesting article in the New York Times: On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data.
Some interesting findings include:
“Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” [...]

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Top 10 Dotcoms to Watch

August 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Design, General, Social Network Site, Web Design

The Guardian Unlimited website recently posted an article with a list of the top 10 British dotcoms.
…’Driven by the surge of Web 2.0 sites and the widespread penetration of broadband, Britain’s dot economy is growing fast…’
The company where I’m working MindCandy, was on the list!

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