
We tend to start using a new application, learn just enough to be reasonably functional, then stop exploring its real power and possibilities. When we need to do something, our natural tendency is to try to do it in the same fashion we always have rather than checking to see if there's a better, more efficient way. Sometimes the answer to our pressing need is already there, sitting, waiting patiently at our fingertips.
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I’m rapidly becoming addicted to watching video-clips online, and when I run across anything related to kickbiking or cycling it immediately catches my attention. A good example is the video popular clip below that was posted on Google Video without any explanation of the where it was taken or why.
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As every good comedian and humorist finds out sooner or later, the real key to getting belly laughs from your audience is to connect with them at a gut level, and the key to establishing that connection is to choose the right audience. So, it’s no surprise that when Daniel H. Wilson, the author of How To Survive A Robot Uprising
, visited Google recently to talk about the book, and tell a few robot jokes, he found a very receptive audience.
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Some of the best work done by creative agencies never sees the light of day. The classic 1984 Apple Macintosh SuperBowl commercial almost met with that fate. A more recent example, strangely enough from Apple's primary competition, is the Xbox 306 television ad that Microsoft decided not to release. It's easy to understand why they felt that way (see video below), but never the less, the production values are amazing.
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Eve Abbott - Organiser Extraordinare - was featured again on The Marketer's Podcast (January 18, 2006). You would think that she and Alan would eventually run out of interesting insights, management and marketing jewels, but this epi-pod clearly demonstrates that they are just warming up.
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We started putting Google Adsense ads on our blogs like this one a little over a year ago. "Why not?" we thought. Little did we realize that we were about to become 'shadow' employees of Google...
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Being the devoted Mindstorms users we are, we were searching for more information on the LEGO Mindstorms NXT system announced last week at CES in Las Vegas. Along the way we ran across an excellent article scheduled to appear in the February issue of Wired Magazine.
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We listen to a lot of podcasts, frequently several podcasts a day, but there are very few that we feel we just couldn't live without. One of our favorite "Can't live without it" podcasts is ArtaGoGo, an absolutely delightful podcast subtitled "Art Over Easy". So, it was wonderful to discover today that ArtaGoGo featured is the first page of Yahoo's beta Podcast directory.
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