While doing my daily dose of BusinessWeek reading, I came across an insightful article which absolutely warranted a post on my blog. So here it is !
In their quest to come up with a “summer reading list” , BusinessWeek asked entrepreneurs which books were most influential in helping them build their companies. These were the replies …
1. Carol Bartz - Executive Chairman, Autodesk
“A little book called THE CONATIVE CONNECTION, by management consultant Kathy Kolbe, has been by my side for years. It explains motivations and work styles better than anything else I’ve read. In any business, you have to bring out the best in people. The only way to do that is to understand them.”
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Okay , okay I just hyped the Title .. !
What I really wanted to share with you guys is a cool lil’ game which uses Google maps base and allows you to take a flight sim over cities like London, NY, Paris, Tokyo and Washington DC.
It allows you to fly over the cities in your own lil’ plane … check out the crash landing and shoot some cars while you take a flight over your favourite city !
Here are a coupla screenshots I took …
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Lately, I have been reading a lot about the “Long Tail” of everything. The phrase - The Long Tail - was first used by Wired Magazine’s editor Chris Anderson. The concept drew in part from an influential essay by Clay Shirky, “Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality” that noted that a relative handful of weblogs have many links going into them but “the long tail” of millions of weblogs may have only a handful of links going into them. Anderson went on to extend on that same idea by drawing a perspective on the effects of the long tail on current and future business models.
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After a temporary test, by Google’s Adsense team in June .. it seems Big G has finally rolled out their new Site Diagnostics Tool. Following is a screenshot of the new Tab that was added to my (and mostly all other adsense publisher accounts) …
The section will ideally report the Google Adsense-Bot’s accessibilty to your websites / URLs. If our the bot is having trouble reaching any of your pages, you’ll see those URLs listed in the Blocked URLs section of the Site Diagnostics table.
At the moment, Google claims to be displaying two types of errors:
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Seems the guys at Gadgetwala have beat me to the race at blogging about Mercedes-Benz’s new iPod Interface Kit ! Too bad, they forgot to give me credit for the tip-off .. :(
Anyways, for those of you who are left clueless … Mercedes-Benz is the first to offer full integration of your iPod into the vehicle’s audio and information system. Your iPod and your Mercedes-Benz are simply connected via “plug and play”. The dashboard multifunction display adopts the iPod title navigation. Check out the pics …
Also checkout Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape - Rediscover musical diversity !
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This is my second attempt(1st attempt was 30 mins back when my browser crashed!) at writing the very same post, and I know it won’t be as thorough as the initial one. But here it is anyways …
After I launched my blog in late March this year, I was constantly on the lookout for a good stats reporting system. After googling for related wordpress plugins, I ended up downloading the much talked about WP-ShortStat. I started using the same and wasn’t really happy with the results, leading me to opt for another plugin - this time StatTraq! It was immediately that I developed a liking for this stat reporting tool and I have been using it (and will continue to) daily to take a bird-eye’s view of what is happening on my blog.
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A few weeks back I decided to try something other than just cranking out ‘one more’ niche portal. I decided to learn and experiment with building lists and promoting to them. So with that in mind, I enrolled as an affiliate for a new product that was on the brink of a huge online launch. I slapped up a grabber page for the same and started advertising on yahoo/overture … and did something which I never intended to do … forgot about it !!!
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Its been estimated by Technorati that over 75,000 blogs are being added to the WWW’s blogosphere everyday. That’s like having a blog every second !!
I tried to look for some more interesting figures and landed on David Sifry’s blog. Here are some images that will give you an idea of the phenomenal growth that ‘blogs’ have acheived.
Picture Courtesy : Technorati and David Sifry’s Blog
Summary:
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Business 2.0 Magazine’s senior writers, Michael V. Copeland and Om Malik, claim now is the time for entrepreneurs, to make the most out of the new technologies which are creating new business opportunities, and radically reducing costs for startups. But they warn … Success is as difficult as ever !
So, why such a statement? Probably, due to the notable upsurge in VC funding for any business idea tagged(pun intended) as Web 2.0 … well that would be normal considering the fact social networking sites like myspace and the likes were acquired for multi-million $’s !!
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Came across an interesting article while going through the weekly newsletter from Axandra. It talks about Google’s new spider and its implications to your adwords ads and webpages. I’ll follow it up with some commentary on keyword arbitrage. Checkout …
Google is using a new crawler software program for their AdWords advertising system that automatically spiders and analyzes the content of advertising landing pages. The name of the new crawler is AdsBot-Google. If you see such an entry in your web logs then your web site been visited by the new bot.
How Will This Affect Your Adwords Ads?
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