Archive for February, 2008

Facebook’s (not really true) Privacy Policy

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I love the writing style of Wired, and their article “How Facebook Exposed Us All as Freaks” made me realize that our privacy policy has not been completely established yet. Sadly, Facebook’s privacy policy did not prevent their tracking system to monitor our purchasing history with other websites (thankfully I never really got into Facebook). [...]

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Have Fun Doing Your Job

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

For Wired’s 15th anniversary, they did had an excerpt on soul-baring quotes. This was our favorite from it:
I don’t have any lofty goals. I just want to have fun making the best damn operating system I can. — Linus Torvalds, founder and coordinator of the Linux Kernel Project, July 2003
This is essentially the philosophy [...]

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Selling A Service versus Selling A Product

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Many people think that Sales is all the same, selling a cell phone is similar to selling a shopping cart system. Through my experiences, I have found this to be far from the truth.
Selling A Service
A service does not give instant gratification. It generally requires a little more work on the consumer’s part and can [...]

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The Power of Persuasive Blogging

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Blogging is becoming more and more an everyday staple of the daily life. Personally, the moment I log onto the internet I check my RSS subscriptions and catch up on all the latest happenings amongst my blogging friends. Blogging allows everyday people to have a voice and reach an audience they never could before.
Through the [...]

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The Jobs No One Ever Wants

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Mike Rowe is the host of the show Dirty Jobs and has made a killing by performing the tasks that “most of us couldn’t bear to do but are really happy someone else will” (Fast Company, Feb 2008). Its quite a genius plan really. I watch the TV show whenever I can because it amazes [...]

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Utilizing your Website and Making it Count for More

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

It is a requirement that everyone at Border7 read Inc magazine, or at least some articles from it. One article that caught our attention was “How to Jazz Up Your Site” which is basically screaming at us to read it.
They make a valid point, a lot of companies do not look at their site as [...]

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