Social Media

Take It All and Pay What You Want

June 14, 2010 Social Media

We’ve heard by now that Radiohead made the most money from an album when they released In Rainbows with a pay-what-you-want system. Also recently, a few indie video game developers got together to offer a bundle of games using the same payment model with the Humble Indie Bundle. They made over one million dollars. Last [...]

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Interesting Links I’ve Saved For Too Long On My Desktop

May 24, 2010 Design

elance.com + 99designs.com – I have been reading a lot about spec work recently. This post from Chris Brogan got me up to speed. Spec work is when an individual/company asks a community of designers for work, lets say a logo. 50 designers submit 50 logos and one gets picked as the best and gets [...]

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What If Life Were More Like A Video Game

May 5, 2010 Ideas

I’m not talking about being able to steal cars, and carry around big guns here. But we are the Nintendo generation who grew up being told we were special. So what better way to make our way through daily tasks than with achievement rewards like you see in Role Playing Games (RPGs). Would you load [...]

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William and six others like this.

April 23, 2010 Social Media

Facebook recently rolled out new features to allow social integration for third-party sites. Pictured here you will see ‘the like button‘ plugin in action. To implement this button on your website you just have to copy and paste a snippet of code, super easy, and now you will have a like button that, when clicked, [...]

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Get me the heck outta Dodge…

April 16, 2010 Ideas

After watching the White House Conference on the Great Outdoors live-streamed at whitehouse.gov/live, I came away asking myself what I could do to bring the outdoors into people’s everyday lives. I came up with the “Get me the heck outta Dodge…” iPhone app. It would be a GPS-enabled app that uses google maps to find [...]

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Do I need to buy Google ads to get a job?

February 7, 2010 Personal

Search William Roth on Google and you can learn all about the late Senator from Delaware, whom the Roth IRA is named after. The problem is that William Roth is my name too – and I don’t show up until page 2, or Goo. People in social media need to have a front page presence [...]

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