I previously wrote an article about keeping your inbox free of spam (Best Practices to Keep your Inbox, Voicemail and Mailbox Free of Solicitations) that received a bunch of great comments and feedback, on Donline and by email. It seems that a lot of people were interested in how to reduce spam and also were enraged by what lousy practices companies use nowadays to justify sending unsolicited mail and email.
Mike received this great email from ING Direct when NetBank went belly up:
Terrence Russell published an excellent and candid article in the Wired Blog Network called “Facebook Rolls Out Highly Targeted Viral Ad System”. Here’s an excerpt:
I sent him the below response recently as I’m interested in hearing his views on if the Social Networking public will accept this continued evolution of private blog-like network pages to public advertising platforms. I have conversations with designer and IA/Strategy friends quite frequently and, on the reverse side, discuss viral and non-traditional marketing opportunities with clients on almost a weekly basis (where much of emphasis is placed on blogs, Facebook, Linked In, Google Groups and other social networking ventures).
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Yes, I know I’m a geek. But my lure to Second Life is more about interest in marketing and social networking opportunities than the designer to have sleek, pixel-scripted hair (my avatar has freckles, poor muscle tone and pale skin). SL has been featured in CSI:NY and The Office on TV, and in a number of new sci-fi books, and is getting major pushes from the media. The company is making a fortune and I wanted to know why.
Todd posted this on his Facebook group (Wannabe Entrepreneurs) so I thought I’d include it here. There’s some interesting points to this, a lot of what I’ve already learned the hard way.
According to Microsoft (labs.live.com/photosynth), "the Photosynth Technology Preview is a taste of the newest – and, we hope, most exciting – way to view photos on a computer. Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. In our collections, you can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor. "
So we were playing a game of euchre on Friday at Alt.Coffee (in the E’Vill) and I mentioned an invention I was thinking about where I would affix the top portion of a filtered water pitcher into (or on) my automatic-drip coffee maker and create a sorta hybrid between the two. Hoboken’s water isn’t, shall we say, fantastic, so I figured this little genius idea of mine would make my mornings a modicum more pleasant. Considering the fact that I’m certainly not a morning person, I need all the help I can get. I took both appliances and sat them on my table and walked around them a few times scratching my chin and realized that it would be fairly easy to make a Frankenstein contraption out of the two. Read more