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The way I wish I could work
Jason Fried, CEO of 37 Signals, shared a typical work day for him in a recent Inc. magazine article. This is a great read. Why? Read two quotes from the article and decide for yourself:
I don't use an alarm clock.
After lunch, I get a little lazy between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. I don't feel that productive, so I'm usually screwing around, which I think is really important. Everyone should read stuff on the Web that's goofy or discover something new.
Sounds like a dream to me. BTW, 37 Signals has over 3 millions people using their web based software. By all means, they are very successful and this life/work style obviously works for Jason and his team.
Original article: The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals
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Exposing Facebook and MySpace Scams
"Scamville" is a great series of articles, featured on TechCrunch.com, that I've been following recently. It exposes how developers are making tens of thousands of dollars every day off of Facebook and MySpace games such as FarmVille. Surprisingly, it has already lead to numerous industry changes in the way these games work and might have even gotten one CEO the boot.
There are 9 articles in the series, below are the links to them. This is an excerpt from the first article. Enjoy.
There can be only one reason Facebook and MySpace turn a blind eye to user protection – they’re getting such a huge cut of revenue back from these developers in advertising. If they turn off the spigot, they hurt themselves.
Zynga may be spending $50 million a year on Facebook advertising alone, fueled partially by lead gen scams. Wonder how Facebook got to profitability way ahead of schedule? It was a surge in this kind of advertising. The money looks clean...
- Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
- Two Companies That Said No To Social Media Scams
- How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession
- Scamville: Zynga Says 1/3 Of Revenue Comes From Lead Gen And Other Offers
- Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games
- RockYou Joins The No Scams Parade. But What’s Facebook Up To?
- MySpace Says Zero Tolerance For App Scams, Changes Terms Of Use
- Tragedy Of The Social Gaming Commons: A Blueprint For Change
- Offerpal Tries Out A New CEO. Shukla, Queen Of Scams, Is Out.
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Amazing Camouflage Art
Inspired by how some animals can blend into their environment, Liu Bolin from China uses camouflage principles to create amazing contemporary art.
Follow this link to see the art: http://bit.ly/3pofNh
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The Art of the Start
A great presentation given by Guy Kawasaki on entrepreneurship and staring up a company.
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Finally, VoIP over At&T's 3G network on the iPhone.
As the title suggests, iPhone owners can finally use VoIP over AT&T's network. It's about time! But wait, my parents have a San Anotnio phone number (In fact, they have 3 U.S. numbers) in Trinidad courtesy of Vonage. Ok, I guess I don't care about cheap VoIP calls again.
Now only if Apple will allow Google Voice.
...AT&T’s previous stance that VoIP apps that work over the 3G (and 2G) network would not be allowed in the App Store. Turns out there’s been a policy change...
Read more about this over at TechCrunch.
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