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A Public relations consultant on getting buzz in media: “PR People want to invest time in things that are going to get picked up, so they try to put something to the ‘who cares?’ and ‘so what?’ test,” If you say something is first, most, fastest, tallest — that’s likely to get attention. But know [...]

One increasingly popular solution: a four-day work week, with each day running 10 hours instead of the traditional eight. Is that good business?read more | digg story

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” - Buddharead more | digg story

They are worth being familiar with so that you can avoid a crisis situation when you cannot access a Google product for some reason.read more | digg story

Four years ago, the Internet was a Wild West that caused the occasional headache for the campaigns but for the most part remained segregated from them. This year, the development of cheap new editing programs & fast video distribution through sites like YouTube has broken down the barriers, empowering a new generation of largely unregulated…read [...]

A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn’t just any GoDaddy employee; he’s head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn’t win.read [...]

Digg has released some materials around their new Recommendation Engine, which we wrote about last night, and say that it will be released this week. Two overview videos are below, including an interview with Digg Lead Scientist Anton Kast. We
’ve also included the text of a white paper on the Recommendation Engine.read more | digg [...]

As the head of the webspam team at Google, I’m in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and informative as possible. Webspam, in case you’ve never heard of it, is the junk you see in search results when websites successfully cheat their way into higher positions in search results or otherwise [...]

Everybody has an opinion about whether Gates is a good guy or a bad guy. But there is no doubting that his image is a lot different than in 2000, when Ken Auletta painted an unflattering portrait of Gates in his book, “World War 3.0,” about the Microsoft antitrust trial. A lot of this started [...]

A great post for meeting planners by one of the kings of new century marketing.read more | digg story