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Rapid Fire - Thursday, July 10

Guy Kawasaki’s Famous Teriyaki Sauce > Start Cooking
“Guy Kawasaki and startcooking.com team up to bring you this amazing BBQ marinade. Guy Kawasaki’s famous teriyaki sauce is perfect for beef or chicken. You will be sure to impress your guests. “
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Because of Demand, Many Theaters Showing ‘Dark Knight’ Will Leave the Bat [...]


Rapid Fire - Wednesday, July 09

Zappos News Report Video
95% biz via internet, 4 week initial training program for ALL employees, 1 out of 7 (I think that’s right) UPS overnight packages are from Zappos, 75% of biz is repeat… 1 billion dollars in revenue tonight. Incredible business, using principles of this new “business 2.0″ thing. See, it can make money [...]


Rapid Fire - Tuesday, July 08

MediaPost Publications - Judge: Complaint Web Site Protected From Suit - 06/27/2008
“A federal court has thrown out a defamation lawsuit against the site ConsumerAffairs.com, which posts people’s complaints about retailers. Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of Alexandria, Va., ruled that the site is protected from suit based on user comments under the federal Communications Decency Act. [...]


Rapid Fire - Thursday, July 03

New Survey: 55% of Companies Not Prepared for Online Reputation Crisis
“53% of companies are making reputation monitoring a strategic priority in 2008. Yet, only 42% have any kind of online reputation plan in place”
Tags: research, crisis, dailylinks
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Rapid Fire - Wednesday, July 02

Red Tettemer
This agency has one of the nicest site’s I’ve seen in a long, long time. Usually the site the agency/practice has for themselves is…uh… well. What’s that saying about the shoes of a cobbler’s son? (And by the way, yes, this includes my own biz site!!)
Tags: webdesign, agency, dailylinks
Cubicle Culture: MySpace’s parking hell
No [...]


Rapid Fire - Tuesday, July 01

Wishful Thinking: 13 Headlines The Consumerist Editors Wish They Could Write
These are classic, and say a lot about the state of business today.
Tags: customerservice, dailylinks
Richard St. John’s 8 secrets of success | Video on TED.com
“Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years [...]


Rapid Fire - Monday, June 30

How to Avoid Social Media Espionage
Rohit takes a look at what many of us have only whispered about - how social media and info sharing might lead to personal doom. This is a must read.
Tags: socialmedia, dailylinks
United Airlines Launches In-Flight iPod & iPhone Connectivity « THE FIRE WIRE
Wow, this is too cool. Yet another reason [...]


Rapid Fire - Saturday, June 28

Daily Online Examiner » Blog Archive » NBC Reminded That In Web 2.0, News Won’t Keep
I have to say, I’m on the side of canning the guy who posted this. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Especially if you’re trying to notify next of kin for crying outloud.
Tags: news, dailylinks
Facebook faux pas: The [...]


Rapid Fire - Sunday, June 22

A Redesign at Skype - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
“Josh Silverman, Skype’s president, says it was time to evolve Skype’s user interface. The service started out by offering free audio calls but has gradually added other kinds of communication, like video calls, file-sharing, and text chats. The main purpose of the upgrade, [...]


Rapid Fire - Monday, June 16

Brad and Willy’s evangelism adventure: Church of the Customer Blog
This look at evangelism implementation reminds us that “community” or “social media” isn’t a thing in itself, it’s a part of your overall business strategy.
Tags: community, evangelism, strategy, dailylinks
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