IEM - Iowa Electronic Markets
The IEM is an on-line futures market where contract payoffs are based on real-world events such as political outcomes, companies’ earnings per share (EPS), and stock price returns. The market is operated by University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Bu

Compete
Track your rivals. Then eat their lunch.

TouchGraph Google Browser
Java app [...]

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Web Marketing SEO Tools Score
Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the

Link Diagnosis - examine your link competition
This tool can show you [...]

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I doubt I’m the first to see this, but I certainly won’t be the last - a spammer just started following me on the popular micro-blogging service, Twitter.  With a name of diecastmodelcar, I immediately thought this was the case,  and clicking on the account’s link confirmed my suspicion:

A Twitter spammer.  The language used certainly [...]

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Google Chart API
The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.

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Flip
Type in text, it flips it upside down. Link via Jwest.

Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad
The shelf-life for common condiments. Invaluable to the safety of your fridge.

Brian Smith’s powerpoint on data feed optimization
Comparison Shopping Engine Presentation for ECMTA Spring Summit

SEOmoz | Lessons from the Domain Roundtable
Rand Fishkin blogged about Matt Cutt’s presentation

Lizards [...]

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Village Voice > Jason Beghe on Scientology: The Full Interview

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold by Gay Talese - Esquire
“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism — a work of rigorously faithful [...]

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This weekend at UCLA is the annual LA Times Festival of Books.  I’ll be heading to the presentation of the LAT Book Prizes the evening before, and then at the festival all day, both days.  If you’ve never gone before, you should try to head up to UCLA for a little - the Festival is [...]

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Startup School 08 | Omnisio
All of the lectures / slides from Y Combinator’s Startup School 2008.

Sprout Builder - Create living content.
Novice flash widget design

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Why Bother? by Michael Pollan [NY Times]
Why go through the trouble of personal sacrifice for the sake of the environment?

Y Combinator Startup School - Streaming Video

What Matt Cutts Said at Domain RoundTable 2008 - John Andrews - johnon.com

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While in Dutton’s today, I thought about an accelerating trend marking my past 3 years in LA - the shuttering of local bookstores (a trend that doubtless is occurring across the country - Coliseum Books comes to mind).
It’s weird that I’ve come to witness the tail end of some really beloved institutions like Dutton’s.  Here [...]

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How to Get Customer Service via Twitter - ReadWriteWeb

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If any of you folks follow the ridiculous (if sometimes funny) videos of 1938 Media, you’ve got to admit that videos with puppets are just always better. I’m reminded of Triumph the insult comic dog - the guy wouldn’t have been nearly as funny without the puppet. The list goes on. Well, [...]

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