Category: General
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WordPress Jetpack 3.2 Lets You Post to Your Blog from WordPress.com
This is pretty damned snazzy. The latest update to Automattic’s Jetpack plugin allows you to use the same editor as WordPress.com to post to your self-hosted WordPress blog: With Jetpack connected, you can now publish posts to your self-hosted WordPress site with the same editor available on WordPress.com giving you one centralized place from where […]
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3 Ways Perfectionism Kills Innovation
I’ve got a new post up on the Mindjet blog: We love to cast ourselves in this drama as we huff and puff and sweat and tear our hair out — “It’s important! Look how hard we’re working! I’m an important person working on important things!’” — but the reality is that you really can’t […]
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SaaS Businesses: What to Measure
Doing some research on core metrics for the SaaS business model – a lot of this I’m remembering from GetSat and Typepad. KISSMetrics comes through as usual with a top five: MRR – monthly recurring revenue – you can’t count a year subscription all at one time – chop it into twelfths Churn – percentage […]
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7 Could Be The Magic Number For Apple
The Apple marketing team is highly praiseworthy when it comes to creating hype around product launches
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Apple boss tries to gut retail operation
“Browett, who took over the post from Steve Jobs’ hand-picked head of retail Ron Johnson earlier this year, apparently thought one of the best run retail operations in the world was “too bloated,” according to a detailed post on ifoAppleStore.com. “[John] Browett’s decision reportedly came despite strongly-worded advice from Retail segment veterans that reducing personnel […]
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All the Self-Help You’ll Ever Need
In a thread on Metafilter about The Verge‘s Scamworld takedown, a commenter reveals the ulimate secrets to personal empowerment: Yes, you can live a better, happier, more fulfilling, wealthier life. You actually can do that. Want to know how? It’s really simple, and I’m going to tell you. For free. This is how. Decide to […]
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How to Find People Impersonating You Using Google Image Search
Any image you see online can be easily copied and put somewhere else online and there’s not much you can do about it. Google recently updated their image search to allow you to search for images similar to one that you upload or one that is already online. Here’s their video for it: (the drag-and-drop kinda […]
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Forever 21, Facebook and Brand You
Fantastic essay from N+1, The Accidental Bricoleurs by Rob Horning. Read the whole thing. Discussion of this essay on Metafilter. My favorite quotes: “Forever 21 was a brilliant name for a fast-fashion retailer. These two words succinctly encapsulate consumerism’s mission statement: to evoke the dream of perpetual youth through constant shopping.” … “The all-purpose excuse […]
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Your Email Can Be Seized Without Warrant After Six Months
Back when everyone downloaded their email to their machine every time they checked email the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act considered email older than 180 days to be ‘abandoned.’ A coalition of internet service providers and other groups, known as Digital Due Process, has lobbied for an update to the law to treat both cloud- […]