Archive | 2008
Pratiks Screen Capture

BootB & Pratiks – Website Reviews

I have spent the morning looking at and rating two different “community” sites with different concepts: Bootb and Pratiks, with proof that not all sites are created equal. BOOTB – “unlimited creativity” www.bootb.com I discovered a new concept in the Internet world which appeals to me no end. It is called BootB, for Be Out [...]

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Stop Wasting Electricity - Light Bulb

Incandescent Light Bulbs banned in Europe by 2012

The European Union voted in October 2008 to ban outright incandescent light bulbs which transform a miserable 5% of the electricity into light. On Monday this week, they published the timing for the suppression of these inefficient incandescent bulbs over the next four years. Starting September 1st 2009, the sale of 100+ watt bulbs will [...]

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Finding a CRM Voice – The Right Values, Meaning & Frequency

Customizing your Real Message & Finding a CRM Voice? As I mentioned in the prior post, I believe that the consumer world is in the midst of a true paradigm shift. In these dire economic times, there is a huge likelihood that the ongoing increase in the share of time and mind of the Internet [...]

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This Crisis will bring a Paradigm Shift on the Internet

Crisis, What Crisis? Bring forth the Internet As we spin into the depths of this worldwide economic crisis, the opportunity for companies to move to more efficient, effective and measurable marketing activities online seems perfectly obvious, if not natural. The time has never been more appropriate for companies to ramp up online activity because their [...]

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PostRank – Help from beyond

New URL and a new feature on the Blog This week, in case you didn’t notice, I changed the URL of my blog to http://minterdial.com (I took out the blogspot, but the old blogspot address will continue to direct automatically). And, to accompany the change, I also added a new feature to the blog: Best [...]

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Typing Skills & Games – Credit to Lester Thurow

Typing not Stereotyping – A True Way to Advance… I have often wondered how my life might have been different had I not learned to type quickly and accurately. I will never forget a lecture I attended by Lester Thurow, former professor of Economics and Dean at MIT, back while I was at Yale (around [...]

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Microsoft Defense Live Scan

Defense Live Scan Virus Attack & Google’s New Promote/Remove

Out of every bad thing, something good! I was doing a scan on Google this morning and found a new link to my name. The link opened up in a new tab and immediately said it was searching for viruses, powered by “Microsoft Defense-Live-Scan.” The dangerous site in question (above) shows an URL coming from [...]

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Categorising my personal emails

I receive, I would estimate, about 35 non-work related more or less ‘old fashioned’ messages a day via the multiple communications services to which I am subscribed: hotmail, gmail, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. When taken alongside the 100+ mails received daily at work, I would say that such a volume is basically average for a professional. [...]

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The Ultimate Way – Doing it in Slow Motion

A Search for the Ultimate “Way” in Sports, Business and Life When people refer to the Great One, MariO or COsby, or then again Michael JOrdan, BjOrn BOrg or Tiger WOOds, one would not be surprised to think that they all share a hidden talent. The hidden or invisible talent? Seeing things in slow motion [...]

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Barack & Michelle Obama

Obamania Worldwide – The Dreams & The Reality

OBAMANIA & OTHER REFLECTIONS ON A SUNDAY MORNING The effect of the Obama victory overseas has been impressive. Much like the initial outpouring after September 11th, 2001, since November 5th, 2008, I have come across a newfound sense of support for the US from many different corners of the world, and the support is quite [...]

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