The time has finally come - Dr. Pepper owes me a drink. Wait, what’s this? Vince is telling me that I’m not getting my Dr. Pepper until Chinese Democracy is actually released. This pirated copy you see before you doesn’t count. Man, that sucks! At least it’s got every every track from the album, so we [...]

The importance of personal branding in your career is only going to grow. This is a first look at personal branding and what you need to succeed with it.

Earlier today Facebook released details on its new Verified App Program for third party developers. Basically, application developers (there are 48,000 applications on Facebook today) can apply to become a Verified App. If they pass they get a badge and special placement in the Application directory, plus increased communication limits with users, increased visibility in the news feed and some free advertising credits. If they don't pass, they get stuck into the unwashed masses of apps that aren't verified because they aren't "meaningful," "trustworthy," or "well designed." The complete guidelines are here. Basically, you don't ...

When you are a billionaire and you know a stock is going to down, your instinct might be to sell it. But if you know that the stock is going to tank because you are privy to insider information, it's probably not a good idea to sell that stock. Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks and is chairman of HDNet, finds himself facing insider trading charges from the SEC because of doing just that. Back in June, 2004, he sold 600,000 shares of search engine Mamma.com after he was asked by the company to participate ...

Votes counted in Minnesota's senate race: 2,833,089

Votes separating Norm Coleman and Al Franken: 221

Determining a candidate's odds of winning a recount is a function of three parameters. The first parameter is the margin separating the leading and trailing candidates. In Minnesota, this margin is apparently 221 votes -- although it has changed several times since results first came in on Tuesday night (it was originally more than 700), and it may change again before results are finalized this week. But let's assume that 221 is the correct number for the time being.

The second ...

I have come to believe that businesses have a lot of the most interesting and useful data around. Here is yet another example of how, with the right data, an incredibly simple analysis can make an important point in an extremely convincing way. JobApp Network helps other companies to hire. Applications can be made either over [...]

Just three days before the election, the Republican nominee will be a guest on the comedy show whose ratings have gone through the roof with spoofs of his running mate.

Web Design for ROI is a book that had huge impact not only on myself. It has changed the way the SEO industry approaches web design and finally made people embrace usability to it’s full effect. Sadly the web developer community wasn’t impacted to the same extent yet. Many web designers and developers, especially of [...]

Congratulations! You made a big announcement and got great reviews, feedback and an influx of people to your website. Yesterday. Today, any number of other organizations and individuals are having the same experience and except for (hopefully) a long tail of residual late bloomers stumbling through your door - you run the risk of being old news already.

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What do you do to maintain the momentum of that big announcement? If we knew for sure, we'd probably be in another line of work - snagging PR contracts away from firms left and right. We can, though, offer some educated suggestions ...