Excellent case study and analysis of HotOrNot

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Nisan Gabbay has an excellent analysis of the site at HOTorNOT.com Case Study: Mixing free and premium services

My wife and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary a few months ago. I'm happily married, so I haven't visited HotOrNot in years. I was fascinated by the description of the …

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Good summary of FaceBook

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There's an excellent summary of how FaceBook came to be and what its possible valuation might be at: [Facebook Case Study: Offline behavior drives online usage - Startup Review Blog](https://www.startup-review.com/blog/facebook-case-study-offline-behavior-drives-online-usage.php]

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Snippy - neat tool for saving parts of images

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Snippy is a neat tool for capturing parts of images. From the description:

How often have you carefully selected some text from a Web page and copied it to an email message? Snippy makes this a snap! Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and …

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Good customer service costs too much?

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As somebody who's spent his fair share of time putting together desks and bookcases and children's toys, one of the most powerful quotes was (paraphrased) "that things should be cheaper - we're making them ourselves".

In a post on "Is it tech rage or customer service rage?", Techcrunch talks about how …

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How to shrink images in Windows XP without additional tools.

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This is an easy way to convert images (photos or pictures) in Windows XP using the paint.exe program from Microsoft itself.

It takes 3 steps per picture, so it's not the fastest way to do this. But they're really easy steps. But it also means that you don't have …

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Today is Election Day

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Today is election day. There's an article today in Techdirt referencing a movie about the problems with Diebold (not Deibele) election machines.

I have to admit that I do miss a little bit the tradition of going to the local school or church and voting. Seeing the volunteers, seeing the …

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Tired of noisy people at the movies?

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Regal Cinemas is testing giving somebody a wireless device that summons an usher. In exchange for being the eyes and ears, you get a free bucket of popcorn. Seems like a reasonable deal to me. Thanks to: Techdirt: Ever Wished You Could Push A Button To Remove A Disruptive Movie …

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Nice to see MyPages revisions

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It's good to see that MyPages is changing to be more interactive. Portland Yellow Pages and Portland, OR Guide by MyPages.com

Something neat is the ability to link to specific businesses:

BodyAware Massage - MyPages.com

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Web at work? Use Workfriendly.

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Browsing at work and don't want people to know? workFRIENDLY makes your browser look like Microsoft Word. Hopefully you don't need to use this but nice implementation.

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Nice article on using Google Notebook

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Get Organized With Google Notebook is a nice article that talks about working with Google's fairly new notebook.

I like the notebook more than I do Google's calendar or Gmail. However, the problem for me is that Google is mixing together different types of services and trying to use one …

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