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More or less the truth & I doubt you'd have thought of them this way. As a bonus, also has a similar graphic for the princes\heroes.

View on analyst integrity from a Gartner analyst. The comments thread is in fact more interesting with a lot of debates & finger pointing, particular at sales who may be in part responsible for giving rise to the "pay for play" allegations.

A really relevant hype cycle for sure

Not all images work & it supports exact phrases only, so better have a good memory.

Quite a lot of ouch moments

Here too, money matters can be distracting. The key is to guide your mind to the right kind of things & keep them on top & refreshed.

Resulting in disasters like rockets blowing up & fatal radiation doses

Interesting take on Yahoo, and where technology startups should focus on. Also, big money distracts.

One of the more interesting posts in recent times. You have the option to choose the kind of emotions you want to experience depending on the setting you put yourself in. This is especially important to consider if you are seeking to build a brand.

Who would have thought that someone would get inspirations from comic books.

It all boils down to the kind & quality of interaction you have with your followers. Wonder when they'll come up with a metric for that.

No more trivializing the real meaning of insight.

"The fact that digital content can be distributed for no additional cost does not explain the huge number of creative people who make their work available for free. After all, they are still investing their time without being paid back. Why?
… because creative people crave attention in a way publishers do not. Prior to the internet, this didn't make much difference. The expense of publishing and distributing printed material is too great for it to be given away freely and in unlimited quantities — even vanity press books come with a price tag. Now, however, a single individual can serve an audience in the hundreds of thousands, as a hobby, with nary a publisher in sight.
For an author to be famous, many people had to have read, and therefore paid for, his or her books. Fortune was a side-effect of attaining fame. Now, with the power to publish directly in their hands, many creative people face a dilemma they've never had before: fame vs fortune."

Interesting and simple way to look at conditional probability. Would also be interesting to relate it to octopus Paul & his WC 2010 predictions.

Some usual suspects along with new ones. The comments have some more.

How long before it becomes passe?

The ROI of Social Media is like trying to ascribe ROI to a telephone line.
Part misinterpretation and misunderstanding of both terms and part the necessity to quantify in order to meet business objectives, are reasons why this enigma won’t be solved soon.

Interesting collection of tazos from different countries. You can even buy some of them apparently.

All thanks to the espresso book machine – http://www.lightningsource.com/ebm.aspx

Interesting concept catering to a niche – Gourmet food store providing cookery lessons and meal assembly, alongside food and cookery products

When do you charge a premium for a good or service – when its specially crafted or just to set it apart through its pricing?

A tad philosophical, and not the usual type of criticism directed at Apple.

Interesting concept that can be applied to consumers – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levy_flight

Co-designing or completing a system with the users gives them a sense of ownership & can lead to much better adoption rates.

Branded manufacturers are trying to get the hang of online marketing & selling through strategic tie-ups.

Common mistakes:
1. Whoops – made the wrong stuff!
2. Whoops – looks great, doesn’t get any action out of shoppers!
3. Whoops – nobody saw it!
4. Whoops – I just visited a store and it’s not there!
5. Whoops – it didn’t make any impact!

Powerpoint could be the most powerful tool on your computer. But it’s not. Countless innovations fail because their champions use PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead of the right way.

"Leah Dieterich's mother always told her to write thank you notes. So she does. To everything. thxthxthx is her daily exercise in gratitude."

"PowerPoint in and of itself is not to blame for communication failures in the workplace or military. As a reader in Dr. Edward Tufte’s blog points out, blaming PowerPoint for the Columbia disaster would be like blaming Microsoft Outlook for spurring people to donate money to non-existant Nigerian royalty. Rather, our over-reliance on slide-view software, over-filtering of information, and over-simplification of complex ideas into small bullet points and cartoons is to blame for our communication errors. Not all presentations need be complex and filled with special effects, nor do important ideas need to be transmitted via PowerPoint. After all, our counterinsurgency manual, FM 3-24, was, in part, written based off of notes taken on a beer napkin at a hamburger restaurant."

If you thought only students and people sitting in offices were subject to "death by powerpoint", think again.

Debt is one of the fundamental differences between the US & Indian consumer.

"fear.less is a free online magazine that empowers people through unique stories of overcoming fear. From entrepreneurs, business leaders, artists and scientists to survivors of extreme experiences, these stories demonstrate the hidden potential we have to confront our fears and come out victorious. Fear.less is our answer to an emergency."

Do your homework before indulging

The company’s goal is to push its coordinates up and to the right by finding ways to make the brand more culturally meaningful (y axis) and personally enriching (x axis), resulting in the highest possible brand significance score.