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Monthly Archives: August, 2008

Social graph applied to corporate e-mails…

While reading Stephen Baker blog promoting his book, the numerati… I stumbled across a very interesting idea.
Using social graph on corporate e-mails!
Yes! Stephen Baker talks about a subject that is very close to my heart: modeling human behavior.Studying all the IBM workers, he can finally put them into a quantitative model of the world.Efficiency, Knowledge, [...]

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The use of proven openers to meet people

When you try to meet people, at various occasions – including picking up girls, you have got to say something first.
Apart from Chuck Norris, whose pick-up line is “NOW”, mortals like me have to settle for something that is somewhat more indirect.
I remember I used to collect pick-up lines because they were fun:-My name is [...]

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We are value-driven robots.

Yup.I realized it some time ago.
Saying that everyone is different would be a truism.Saying that people have different values would be a truism as well.
Naturally, as I am telling that to you, you feel that you have experienced that before.You remember those neverending arguments about something that did not even came close to what you [...]

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Getting customers: rules that will not help you

Yup.That’s business. Marketing is all about selling.If you don’t sell, you don’t have a business.
So, you will hear: “Think about the customers!”First rule that will never help you:Just focus on the first customer. Once you did that, think about the next one. Restart the process.
or sometimes:
Think about making $10. Scale that.
Second rule:Think about your added [...]

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7 sin marketing for facebook apps

It seems that making facebook applications is easier than I expected.Following that simple tutorial from Gath Adams, my app was up and running within a few hours.All you need is a server and some spare time. (guess what’s more valuable?)
Within minutes I was making a simple facebook quizz.Ok, it was not a killer app, and [...]

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That’s business as usual…

Sometimes, you have very intense work relationship with people…I remember I have worked with people with whom the project result was less than conclusive.Several times, the discussion was very tense and we thought we’d never come to an arrangement. Because it seemed that noone was willing to make an effort.The collaboration failed… but the project [...]

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Get the girl!

Usually, when you look at your spam, close to 70% of the content is sexually explicit.-Enlarge your penis-Discounted viagra-Go see Amy stripping in front of her webcam
The rest is mostly, how to make money online, or why Amid Gronanga in Nigeria put you on his testament, so that you can inherit $100 000 (just need [...]

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