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Entries from August 2007

PayPal Gets a New Logo

August 31st, 2007 · No Comments

The conversation at PayPal may have gone something like this: “Oh shit, Google Checkout is gaining ground! Oh shit, Amazon just launched a payment service too! Quick, hire some consultants and make a new logo!”
Old Logo:

New Logo:

Just kidding. I must say actually, that the new PayPal logo looks like an improvement. What do you [...]

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Tags: Amazon · Business · Google · Google Checkout · Logos · Marketing · Paypal · eBay

Boom! Miami Condo Crash

August 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment

When I was out in Miami a few months ago for Affiliate Summit East, I couldn’t help but notice the MANY large skyscraper condo buildings being erected all over the place. I didn’t know much about the Miami real estate market, but I was thinking “crap, this is totally crazy!”. From our hotel in Miami, [...]

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Tags: Affiliate Summit · Affiliate Summit East · Bubble · Condo · Condos · Crash · Housing Bubble · Miami · Real Estate · Real Estate Bubble

List of Keyword Tools

August 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I just updated this list of keyword tools. If you need to do some keyword research, that is a pretty good list to turn to. If you know of a cool tool I’m missing, please drop a comment on this post and let me know! I actually use that list as my “go to” [...]

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Tags: Keyword Research Tools · Keyword Tools · Keywords · Research · SEM · SEO · Search Engine Marketing · SiteLead · SpeedPPC · SpeedPPC.com · Tools

Streaming Video Piracy at VideoHybrid.com

August 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

It’s amazing that websites like this don’t get shut down faster! I think websites like this one really prove that Internet is still in its “wild west” phase, where you can get away with almost anything, for a while at least. If you check out VideoHybrid, you can watch movies that are still in theaters [...]

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Tags: AllofMp3.com · Knocked Up · MP3 · Movies · Mp3Sparks.com · Piracy · Rush Hour 3 · Russia · Streaming · Superbad · The Bourne Ultimatum · Transformers · Video · VideoHybrid.com · Websites · YouTube

J Paul Getty Quotes

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments

In a few weeks my girlfriend and I are going to visit the Getty Villa in Malibu. I’ve been to the Museum, but never the Villa - so I’m excited to see it. If you have never been to the Getty Museum, you should really pay a visit the next time you are in the [...]

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Tags: Getty · Getty Museum · Getty Villa · J Paul Getty · LA · Los Angeles · Malibu · Museums · Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

August 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve Jobs
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
I [...]

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Tags: Apple · Computers · Mac · Macintosh · Marketing · Quotes · Steve Jobs

You Will Laugh Your Ass Off

August 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Well…at least I did! Seriously, I can’t remember the last time I was laughing out loud so much during a movie. Death at a Funeral could be the sleeper hit of the summer. Check out this movie! I think it is a love-it-or-hate-it type film: you need to be the type of person who can [...]

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Tags: Comedy · Death · Death at a Funeral · Funerals · Movies · Summer

Refuse To Crackberry

August 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I totally agree with #8 on Tim’s list of 9 Habits To Stop Now.

8. Do not carry a cellphone or Crackberry 24/7
Take at least one day off of digital leashes per week. Turn them off or, better still, leave them in the garage or in the car. I do this on at least Saturday, and [...]

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Tags: 4 Hour Work Week · Addiction · Blackberry · Books · Communication · Crack · Crackberry · Email · Phone · Tim Ferriss

Impossible is Nothing

August 17th, 2007 · No Comments

This guy is either the real deal or incredibly cheezy…what do you think? Watch his video resume below…
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Tags: Aleksey Vayner · Impossible is Nothing · Resumes · UBS · Yale

Manly Presidential Photo Opportunity

August 16th, 2007 · No Comments

This made me laugh…

Russian President Vladimir Putin walks along the Khemchik River in southern Siberia’s Tuva region August 15, 2007.
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Tags: Photos · Politics · Presidents · Putin · Russia · Russian · Siberia · Vladimir Putin