Two dinosaurs being taking for a walk in Australia, a promo for the “Walking With Dinosaurs” world tour (via @laughingSquid).
Month: July 2010
New Porsche Spider
“Porsche’s Spyder will allow drivers to use several fueling modes including E-Drive, Hybrid, Sport Hybrid and Race Hybrid. E-Drive mode switches on the vehicle’s electric engine which can run for about 16 miles. Amazingly, the car’s top speed is 198 miles per hour. Of course all this eco-friendliness will come at a very wallet-unfriendly price–a whopping $630,000 a pop.” > Source: http://dvice.com/
Don’t Be Possessed By Possessions
“If you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.” – Linda Henley, American consultant and motivational speaker
Leaders Are Like Architects Of Greenhouses
“If you imagine a greenhouse with lots and lots of plants, then at other companies the leader would be the tallest, strongest plant that all of the other plants aspire one day to become. I view myself less as a plant but let’s say as the architect that designs the greenhouse, that enables the plants to flourish.” -Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
Never Confuse Motion With Action
“Never confuse motion with action.” – Benjamin Franklin
Flipboard For The iPad
This looks really cool but I still prefer RSS.
Too Many People Spend Money They Haven’t Earned
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Smith
The Unnecessary
“Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.” – Peter Drucker
Kevin Rose Get Video Well By Old Spice Guy
You know you’ve made it big on the Internet when the Old Spice guy gives you a personal get well video. His girlfriend Darya tweets the following…
Marketers Fall Into Two Categories
“Marketers fall into one of two categories:
- A few benefit when they make their customers smarter. The more the people they sell to know, the more informed, inquisitive, free-thinking and alert they are, the better they do.
- And most benefit when they work to make their customers dumber. The less they know about options, the easier they are to manipulate, the more helpless they are, the better they do.
Tim O’Reilly doesn’t sell books. He sells smarts. The smarter the world gets, the better he does.
The vast majority of marketers, though, take the opposite tack. Ask them for advice about their competitors, they turn away and say “I really wouldn”t know.” Ask them for details about their suppliers, and they don’t want to tell you. Ask them to show you a recipe for how to make what they make on your own, and “it’s a trade secret.” Their perfect customer is someone in a hurry, with plenty of money and not a lot of knowledge about their options.
You’ve already guessed the punchline–if just one player enters the field and works to make people smarter, the competition has a hard time responding with a dumbness offensive. They can obfuscate and run confusing ads, but sooner or later, the inevitability of information spreading works in favor of those that bet on it.”
Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
