Great business card design.
Then it’s eight more-or-less solid hours of ass-in-chair because surprisingly, that’s the way stuff gets done.
Richard Branson, mastermind behind the Virgin brand is blogging. Are you following him?
Brad Evans had stints as a right back with the US National Team. This time around, he was back in his more natural midfield role and he hopes the experience will act as a catalyst for a strong showing in 2012.
If coach Klinsmann continues to add Sounders players to the National Team roaster, and they certainly deserve it, then this is going to be very interesting. I am slowly making the Sounders my #1 team. Not just because of the piss-poor performance by my team VfB Stuttgart, but also because it’s right to support your local team. I am far off from ever considering rooting for any other team but the Nationalmannschaft but if Klinsmann can deliver, and the players he picks are players I know, then I might just start falling in love with the US National team… and then what?
I was interviewed by Marcus DeHart on his podcast ‘You Can’t Judge A Book’.
Well, I was just reading ‘Making Ideas Happen‘ by Scott Belsky of ‘The 99 Percent’. A book for the entrepreneur, contractor and all around modern business person.
Have a listen and read the book.
Matthew Prince:
For all its faults, this is likely the greatest virtue of Davos: The massively interdisciplinary nature of the conference and its attendees. People at the top of their respective fields actively seek to learn about things they didn’t know or understand before. That’s the kind of petri dish from which real innovative ideas can occasionally emerge.
Is it premature to call it?
Audi’s “Game day” commercial about vampires dying in the bright headlights is just brilliant.
All around great spot. They even included a #hashtag at the end: #solongvampires to encourage social conversation beyond the 30 sec. spot.
While you’re on Youtube, check out the Audi brand channel. Youtube is creating really nice brand pages – looks really tight.
Now to complete your adventure, check out the new Audi allroad… man, what a beautiful car. Me wants it!
Twitter started using real names on their website instead of just the famous @twitter handles. Hadn’t noticed that before.
Sure, the @handle and the icon are still there for each post, but along with it is now the real name, or the name that the person chose to create the account in bolded font. Interesting move, I say. It makes the homepage and my feed have a completely different feel. Of course the update has not pushed down to the apps yet. Otherwise I perhaps would’ve seen it sooner.
With Twitter growing more and more into the most important and dominant communication platform it will be interesting to see how Twitter chooses to keep the balance between the need to monetize their service and keeping the all important credibility with the people that matter, the movers and shakers, and increasingly not just tech leaders, but leaders all over the world in every genre and position.
A startup that shall not be named receives tons of VC cash from a prominent Silicon Valley fund YCombinator and is “giving back’ to the business community by ripping off every design in the book. Not just inspired copying, but directly stealing, even serving images from the affected businesses’ server.
Neither Techncrunch or PandoDaily have picked that story up as of yet. Are they sleeping or looking away since those tech sites increasingly are not independent journalism outlets, but venture funded startups themselves?
“Pivot“, make a drastic change in your business can be a great thing. At Einmaleins I went from selling housewares and kitchen items, a full-on retail store to a media business, designing websites, offering an ad network and setting up a co-working space.
Had a chance to give some comments in the Business Examiner on the impact of the legislature coming to town:
(the full article is behind a paywall)
“Over the last four years I haven’t seen any difference in business, legislature here or not,” said owner Mathias Eichler. “Other businesses might have different experiences — certainly restaurants, I would assume. But from my angle, it’s a non-event.” He also said that “the Hill” and downtown Olympia are separate entities. “There is hardly any connection or cross-pollination from what I experienced,” Eichler said. “People come in (to downtown) to do business — they come for a cause. They might use the catering services here or the restaurants around us, but that’s about it.”
File that under “Someone has to burst the bubble”.
The surviving Monty Python members are set to reunite for new movie.
Amazing!
Der Spiegel highlights what’s important:
That may make for good TV, but it’s the voters who pay. CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer tried to heighten the drama by asking absurd questions about US colonies on the moon, Swiss bank accounts, and Puerto Rican statehood, not to mention which of the four candidates’ wives would make the best first lady.
There is no excuse for why I like that movie, other then the fact that my brother Markus watched it like a million times and so I fell in love with it too.
Well, now I REALLY would like to see it again… internet, internet, can you help me out here?
Bill Gates labelled capitalism phenomenal system:
“We’re going through a tough period, but there is no other system that has improved humanity.
It’s really — honestly — surprising that Hollywood doesn’t understand such a simple concept.
I don’t even know what a ‘new release’ is anymore, I just wait until it hits Netflix Instant. If it’s not on there, it doesn’t exist.
On a 1959 visit to Germany, World’s Fair Commission chairman Eddie Carlson saw Stuttgart’s concrete Fernsehturm tower and imagined one for Seattle. His napkin sketch of such a steeple—a doodle he recreated in the 1980s—was the basis for the Space Needle design.
Tina on CreativeMornings:
Fostering local community. Make people get out of their office to actually meet up.
So it was a big blow to Apple when Ron left after 11 stellar years. And it was a big wow for JCPenney when Ron signed on as their new CEO.
The guy who created the fabulous Apple stores is now the CEO of JCPenny’s. Watch him turn this company around.
Summer Games in Baku, Azerbaijan; Doha, Qatar; Istanbul, Turkey; Madrid, Spain; Rome, Italy; and Tokyo, Japan.
Where do you want to see the Games go next?