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Wil Schroter:
Try replacing the world “strategy” with “I’m about to get fired.”
Here is how your new title now reads “Senior Vice President of I’m About to Get Fired”. Boy, that might not even fit on your new business card, but it won’t matter, because you won’t be around long enough to hand one out.

stuffonfire: “If you ask some platform-neutral entrepreneur where to put their money and the next few years of their life, can you honestly expect anyone with a sound mind to suggest that it should go into anything but a web product?”

If I have to sit through another god awful Powerpoint presentation I think I will have to kill myself.
Please, people, take a look at this - presentations done right (it doesn’t hurt that Henry is good looking of course):

Is it only me, or does this seem weird:
“In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of the trappings of Linux.
The project is one of the items on the to-do list of Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian version […]

If you want readers of a web page to take a desired action, how can you gear your page to achieve that goal? Here is an excellect tutorial on the science of landing pages.
The key take-away points are:

Focus on one objective for each page. Drive everything on the page to that one objective.
Sales pages […]

Via Mark:

The wine lovers site for non wine experts, Cork’d which was built by hand by two guys using Ruby on Rails has been acquired. This is a nice validation for the concept of building a simple, elegant and useful web app using Ruby On Rails and one that hasn’t seen a lot of […]

This link to me and I’ll link to you thing is getting out of hand so here are a whole bunch of sites that will link back to you if you write a review of them. There are usually a bunch of bogus rules, like the review must be 200 words, and the anchor […]

A very interesting marketing case study is Vancouver company Ginch Gonch. With the motto, “Live Like A Kid”, and their in-your-face sexy models, GG manages to come out swinging in the highly competetive fashion world.
Their site is awash with nearly-naked male underwear models and now they have signed former adult industry icon Benjamin Bradley […]

Yaro has an interesting series about How To Start an Ebook Business:
This is the model Daryl and Andrew used to generate over $250,000 in passive income during their first year in the ebook business.

Mark:
ReviewMe is still snubbing me so I say forget them, review yourself!
Now I don’t have time to review a bunch of sites but I don’t mind posting them. So here’s the deal, if you’d like a review of your site to show up on my page all you have to do is email it to […]

In the ever growing ranks of pay for review sites, Blogvertise is now coming on strong. Advertisers pay anywhere from $5 to $50 for reviews on other blogs. Interesting…

One of the sure pleasures every year is to pour a really find cup of coffee, put a Wayne Shorter CD on, and sit down with Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Letter to Shareholders.
You simply must take the time to read the entire letter, but this snippet made me smile. You don’t see stories like […]

A Tale Of Two Companies:
“I am completely uncomfortable with the notion of someone else handling my cell phone for that long. Lord knows what types of germs he has, the condition he lives in and how he has treated my precious $400 cell phone. Sony doesn’t seem to care.”

Ewww…. Gotta love those big box bastards like Best Buy with their secret website.

Dumb Little Man has some great tips on the one habit you simply must master - leaving your work and truly being present at home. How to Leave Work at Work:
“Questions first: When you get home, immediately ask how your spouse’s day went (AND LISTEN). Many times their response is enough to get you […]

Rands has a great essay detailing how he evaluates a resume. You’re not going to like it (he spends less than 30 seconds on it) but you better read it cause from my experience his approach is one of the more detailed ones:
Take time to write your resume for a human. You need to […]

The Oscar announcer just said Infernal Affairs was a Japanese movie, but we all know it was from Hong Kong…. sheesh

Violent Acres on Dining Out:
“If you are the server…

Collect my payment promptly. If I’ve asked for my check, it means that I’m ready to leave. I can not stand it when servers give me my check and then disappear for long periods of time without collecting my payment. For the life of me, I do […]

I have been following John Chow’s blog with some fascination.
This is a relatively new blog, but John has set out with dogged determination to build readership and links (and revenue) in every way possible and has been wildly successful. The blog covers a wide range of topics but mostly focuses on SEO, link building, […]

CrossingWallStreet:
“Thanks to the YouTube merger, Shannon Hermes now owns $1.3 million in Google stock. How did she get the money? Well, Shannon didn’t start the company. Nor is she a venture capitalist.
She’s YouTube’s receptionist.

Economists say that giving gifts, other than cash, is a losing proposition as you can never give a gift that will be worth more to the receiver than what he would buy for himself. The NYT uses Valentine’s day, and the pressure that day brings for amorous gift-givers everywhere, to examine gift-giving as an […]

AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS
February 3, 1976
By William Henry Gates III
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be […]

Rands has a great essay on how to handle the first 90 days of a new job, or “finishing the interview” as he calls it. I particularly agree with his advice to accept every invitation to lunch that you receive during this time. Nothing helps more in making the transition from ‘new guy’ […]

franticindustries:
“Many of the top searches, like ‘bebo’, ‘ebay’, ‘yahoo’, ‘amazon’, ‘myspace’, ‘facebook’, aren’t really searches at all - these terms are mostly written by users who know exactly which page they want, but they’ve gotten used to using Google instead of the address bar. If you’re still not convinced, I give you the crown evidence: […]

Who is to blame for death of Jennifer Strange?
Strange died suddenly after participating in a “Hold your Wee for Wii” contest sponsored by The End (KDND, 107.9FM) in Sacramento. The contestants chugged water and then had to see who could go the longest without going to the bathroom in order to win a Nintendo […]

Wil Shipley, author of the most excellent Delicious Library noticed that his Google Adsense words for content (those ads that appear in blogs and other non-Google sites) were getting hijacked by spam sites that buy mis-spelled versions of his own keywords:
“Some unscrupulous site picks a bunch of words that are close to the words you’d […]

I read with interest today that the price of sugar is dropping to new lows because the price of oil is declining. It seems the market had the idea that if oil prices continued to skyrocket then sugarcane would be used to make ethanol but now that oil is coming back down (and we […]

Andrey has a very thoughtful post on the effectiveness of different kinds of Software Time Trials:
“If you stop and give it some thought, you’ll find that many uISV owners who are considered to be ’successful’ offer something different than a standard 30-day trial. Before you begin thinking about the duration of your next time trial […]

CampaignMonitor is seething that the upcoming Outlook 2007 will stop rending emails with the IE engine (and properly supporting CSS) and will revert the the much worse Word rendering.

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