Business

On Friday, The Business Insider‘s latest Chart of the Day portrayed Facebook’s unbelievable effect on the rest of the web.  Unfortunately, the key word here is “unbelievable,” but not in the way The Business Insider intended. But why is this report so unbelievable, and why do we keep falling for all these not-so-thinly-veiled advertisements that [...]

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Justin on June 21st, 2011

I dig Chris Brogan’s post on what to do when you don’t want to market. Personally, I hardly ever want to be marketing.  I’d rather be creating something awesome than trying to convince people how awesome it is. But if I never marketed, I’d just be making awesome stuff in a room all by myself, [...]

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Justin on June 20th, 2011

When I was a high school sophomore, I took a class called “Election ’92 and You.”  Among the weekly exercises was a pretty massive spectacle: a schoolwide mock debate of the presidential candidates.  Three of my classmates were selected to portray the trio of politicians — the incumbent George H. W. Bush, the challenger Bill [...]

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Justin on June 15th, 2011

Awhile back, I pointed out what Mashable wasn’t telling you about Facebook.  Now Compete is getting in on the action with a comprehensive data analysis of the qualitative differences between Twitter and Facebook. Which would be great… except it makes broad statements without explaining why it came to those conclusions. Here are the study’s four [...]

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Justin on June 13th, 2011

June has been a busy month for me.  I’d intended to launch four (yes, four) new websites from scratch, each with different goals and different audiences.  All this, in addition to writing the next season of The Baristas and nailing down a quartet of freelance contracts, at first seemed totally do-able all at once. Then [...]

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