I just stumbled across a thread on a forum about one Markus Frind who makes $300k a month from Adsense from a free dating site, that he operated, called PlentyofFish.com. According to Mr. Frind, keeping the site fast and running is one of his smallest issues. The bigger issues that he faces are – 1. Approving and [...] [...more]
Robert Scooble has an insider scoop about how MySpace got so popular — straight from MySpace’s CTO, Aber Whitcomb. The reasons – 1) They made sure influentials in Hollywood (stars, bands) were among the first users. 2) They listen to their users and add features frequently (usually noticeable new features every week). 3) They let the users tell them [...] [...more]
An incident that took place between me and my dad (who was a Colonel in the Indian Army then) a few years ago has been doing the rounds in my mind since morning. It was during the Kargil War with Pakistan that Army Headquarters in here used to hold a daily media update. During one of [...] [...more]
Guy has an awesome post about why it matters to have a good rapo with the ground staff and how should you do it. Here’s one tip that I’d like to add myself to the list — Smile to them! You will not believe just how few people actually take a minute to smile to them [...] [...more]
Ethan Kaplan, the director of technology for Warner Bros Records gave a lecture at University of California Santa Barbara and came to realize some interesting things – 1. About 1/3 had a MySpace profile. 2. Roughly 90% had FaceBook profiles. 3. Five people, all guys had heard of digg 4. No one had heard of BoingBoing, Delcious, memorandum or [...] [...more]
This video has been doing rounds on so many blogs! Even I have to post it here. Hey Mr. Balmer your enthusiasm really inspires me. Even that chair throw at the person leaving for Google was awesome! And so were those F Words. But, I really like you as a business leader. But hey, [...] [...more]
While reading Sam Hastings’ Blog today, I came across a rant he had made there — Do not reply to this email. Even I agree that this thing sucks! Well, the most common justification given for this is that the number of bounces because of invalid emails that you can get can make things really messy. [...] [...more]
Andrew has posted a list of Classic Advertising Books as compiled by Jerry Della Famina in The Wall Street Journal. Here’s the list – The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958 by Julius Lewis Watkins, 1959 Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy, 1963 Bill Bernbach’s Book by Bob Levenson, 1987 A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young, [...] [...more]
I’ll tell ya the answer — there are 9 faces in it. Can you count em all? [...more]
Today morning I stumbled across a video doing rounds called Microsoft iPod (done by the MS marketing team, see it right below) – I am, by no means a Microsoft fan but hey Microsoft actually does make better packages. No seriously! The package they came up with actually complies with all the psychological tactics of influencing [...] [...more]
This is a viral video from Youtube that is getting a lot of attention.
I will let the author set the scene:
It was back in Oct 2005.
My wedding was about a month to go and I decided to make a memorable event for my future wife. But, I and she were working and due to preparation of wedding, I didn’t have enough budgets for expensive proposal. While I was considering for the event, I remembered what she said in the past. “Wow it would be great if I can get a chance to go in the room with full of yellow post it just like Sang Sang Plus” (Sang Sang Plus is one of the famous talk show (TV program) in Korea and they prepare a room with full of yellow post it - questions from fans to famous celebrity)
I wrote all the happy memories that I had with my wife in 5,940 post it. It took me 4 days & 5 nights to write everything and post it in the bathroom. (I tried main living room first, but, due to surface of wallpaper, I had to change the place) Once we back from honeymoon, we took all the post it off and kept it in the box until now.
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