Mark Ryden has a new Japanese import book available in late April from from Last Gasp Publishing
“Fushigi Circus”
Price $35
Hardcover, Japanese language book featuring the artwork of Mark Ryden .
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According to an article in BusinessWeek Online, written by Steve Rosenbush.
Facebook, the Web site where students around the world socialize and swap information, has put itself on the block, BusinessWeek Online has learned. The owners of the privately held company have turned down a $750 million offer and hope to fetch as much as $2 billion in a sale, senior industry executives familiar with the matter say.
technorati tags: facebook, newsweek, myspace, viacom
I assume this new feature has launched only in the last couple of days. Either way it’s the first I’ve seen of it. Now, if only myspace could work on their UI a little bit, I’m sure they would get even more page views.
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Flickr’s Caterina Fake had a post on her blog last week, entitled “It’s a bad time to start a company “. That little post has become pretty popular. As a matter of fact, according to blogpulse, it was the #2 most linked to post last week. Just for the record; I don’t agree with her. As you might recall I did a post back in November “ Why you should start a internet companyâ€. So, it seems Caterina and myself oppose each other. I think she makes some valid points but overall, this is still the best time in history to start a internet related company.
technorati tags: startup, web2.0, CEO, flickr, CaterinaFake, caterina.net
The Onion asks “What do you think? “
Click Here to see what they say.
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Over at coolhunting they have a cool video montage from SXSW. Go check it out.
I did a short post earlier in the week about one of my new favorite companies called Veoh. I’m a big fan. Well, instead of doing my normal product spotlight with screen captures etc. I decided to do a short video that does a “walk-through†of how Veoh works. If this is something that takes hold, then I plan on doing 1 or 2 a week. Let me know what you think. The full web cast is 16:36 and you’ll need to be a Veoh member to download it. Veoh does offer a 1-2 minute streaming clip of the intro but it’s not enough to give a fair representation of the full 16:36 minutes.
Click Here to check out the webcast on Veoh.com. Please excuse the bad editing job, as this was my first attempt at video production.
Note: In the webcast I gave a comparison of Veoh to Netflix. Keep in mind that I meant it from a functionality standpoint. Veoh is totally free.
technorati tags: veoh.com, youtube.com, netflix, DmitryShapiro
I threw away (recycled) my phone books yesterday. I’ve been living in this house for 9 months and have had phone books lying by my front door 2-3 different times. I don’t need them. First of all I don’t have a “land line†phone and haven’t had one in 8 years. I assume they just deliver phone books to every house in the neighborhood. But, since I don’t have a use for a phone book, I think it’s a bit wasteful for them to keep giving them to me. If I need to find a phone number for something local I use the Internet. If I need to find the number for pizza delivery in my neighborhood, I use the Internet. As a matter of fact I can’t think of anything that’s in the yellow pages that I can’t find on the Internet and just as fast. Am I the only one that thinks printed phone books are useless for a large portion of USA?
I’m sure most of you know this already but here are a few useful tips for finding phone book type listings on the Internet:
1. Personal phone numbers are easy to find with google, all you need to do is put in the name of the person followed by a comma and the city or state they live in. In most cases you can get the address the same way.
2. Local pizza delivery can be found in a couple of different ways. If you have a favorite pizza company, then just go to their website and plug in your zip code. If you’re in a larger city you can use google and just type “pizza delivery, your zip code†and you should get some results. Additionally you can go to yellowpages.com and search. However, I’ve found that yellowpages.com doesn’t have all the listings that they should because they charge extra, or at least they use to.
3. If you’re looking for a local business of a specific type (ie. Art gallery, bar, restaurant) you can, again just go to google and type in the type of business and your zip code or city name and you should get some results. Even the paid listing in google are useful at times. Additionally, for food, beverage and cultural type listings I like to use the online version of my local weekley paper. In my case that’s austinchronicle.com. I can always get good recommendation for restaurants and bars, in addition to finding local music listings. I would recommend using your local weekly as much as you can.
Like I said before, you can find anything on the Internet that you can find in your phone book. This is why it’s important for business owners to have a “quality†web presence and to spend just a little time on online marketing. If you don’t have a website then, you’re missing out on potential customers that would not find you otherwise.
If you have some tips or sources for finding local business’ then post them in the comments.
technorati tags: google, yellow pages, phone book
It’s kind of a odd colaboration but Google and Nike have teamed up to bring us a Soccer Social Network. Just in time for The World Cup. The site is called Joga.com.
Joga is a place to meet other soccer players, share your own soccer experiences and enjoy photos and videos from around the world.
Currently Joga is invite only. I’m trying to get a invite so if any of you have one, please send one my way.
technorati tags: joga.com, google, nike, soccer
