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TELNET
You know it.
Black screen.
Green Letters.
Kind of like The Matrix, but far less entertaining.
At least I never saw “blonds, brunettes and redheads” while staring into the screen. Well, maybe that’s not true but they were reflections of people walking behind me while I continued to be lost in the pixels.
Twenty-one years ago today, [...]
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If you want to get found more, you need more content. It’s that simple. I’m not going to drone on about how that content must be quality content. I don’t believe in producing junk content and I’m sure you don’t want to be a search engine spammer either.
Each piece of content you create is [...]
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As CES was underway this past week, I monitored news releases, blog posts and product announcements from companies with cool new things to share with the world. While the things they had to talk about did seem cool, the ways in which many companies shared the news was, in my sometimes-not-so-humble opinion, so ridiculously bad [...]
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One of the things I love about Kurosawa samurai films is the way mastery shows itself through so many of the people. The samurai aren’t just into swordplay—though the movies wouldn’t be as much fun if there wasn’t plenty of that—but also show an appreciation for understanding the world around them.
That attitude of [...]
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What if you gave your product away but charged admission for people to work with you? Would the experience your customers get be worth the admission price?
Disney does this. You pay a handsome price to get in the park and then all the rides are free. When I was young, I remember going with [...]
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A reader on my mailing list recently asked why search results are different between the different search engines. The short answer is that each search provider has independently developed software that converts its view of the content on the web into a list of results when you enter a search phrase. There’s no “unified search [...]
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I love my Bose ear buds. They rock. They’re very comfortable. They fit my ears (which many ear buds don’t). I’m on my third pair, as I lost my first pair at a hotel in Vermont (which is to say, I forgot them when I checked out), bought a replacement pair and then upgraded [...]
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Everyone starts somewhere. Invariably, that somewhere is “the beginning.” The beginning may look different on the surface from one person to the next but absolutely no one is born playing violin, writing novels, doing taxes, hunting down all the Jedi in the universe, pounding on opponents in heavy weight fights or winning bouts on The [...]
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I could write a lot on the book The Experience Economy, but there’s one thought that really hit me from what I read. What if, instead of charging for your product or service, you instead charged an admission and gave the rest away for free?
How would this impact how you interact with your market?
How would [...]
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Shout out to LeeAnn Prescott at VentureBeat for reporting on this. The gist is that Twitter has experienced a 9% boost in traffic since Google’s real-time search was introduced. I guess the point is that search is far from dead and it still does make sense to pay attention to keywords, trending topics and to [...]
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