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Design By Committee: The killer of great ideas

December 29, 2009
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A colleague of mine sent me this video the other day. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It video so perfectly summarizes the problem with the creative process, it is hysterical. At the same time, it is truly sad for those of us tied to big business.

To sum it up, design by committee is the killer groundbreaking ideas. Period.

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The World’s Best, Recession Proof Business Idea

December 29, 2009
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Be damn good at customer service. Any great leader will tell you that their secret had nothing to do with themselves. Instead, their success was built on the backs of the teams they assembled. The businesses that are going to do well in the long run are the ones that filled with customer oriented people.

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Top 5 Online Outsourcing Services

November 2, 2009

Every once in a while, there comes a time when your business could just use an extra set of hands. Maybe you need the help of an expert to finish a project. You certainly do not want to go through the hassle of hiring temporary staff.
So what do you do?

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Free Wordpress Technical Support

February 26, 2009

BlogCraving specializes in Wordpress based gossip websites. If you visit icastlimited.com, you can see a list of our client samples.  We currently serve many of the top gossip sites.
We offer you the piece of mind that you general technical site needs will be handled by a professional that knows 1) Wordpress, and 2) the [...]

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.me Domains Hit the Market in Hours

July 16, 2008

On July 17th at 15:00 (UTC), you’ll be able to start buying .me domains.
iCast.me
Kiss.me
la.me
allof.me
And so on.
With Apple’s MobileMe product (www.me.com) just hitting the market, perhaps the “.me” domain craze will also start to take off.  You could get pretty creative with them.
They are about $20 a year with a 2 year minimum registration.  You can [...]

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Freedom Not So Free at PdF2008?

June 24, 2008

In an interesting side story of the PdF2008 conference, it turns out that the conference actually had to pay Jazz at Lincoln Center for the rights to record, tape, and distribute the content of the conference.  Jazz at Lincoln Center retains the copyright to all “performances” in their facility.  So to get your hands on [...]

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Making the Web LIVE

June 23, 2008

Well, the web is approaching another one of those tipping points, and it seems that “LIVE” is the next big thing.
Through sites such as qik.com and mogulus.com, users can stream video live to the world.  They also capture this live video and turn it around into ondemand video content after the live event is over.  [...]

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Clay Shirky – “Here Comes Everybody”

June 23, 2008

The transactional cost of gathering a group of people together has gotten very low thanks to the Internet and mobile phones.
Thanks to technology, there’s virtually no cost involved with getting people together, to exchange information, and act in support or opposition of a particular common interest.
Increasingly, media is not just a source of information.   It [...]

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