Seth’s Blog: Thinking about Bizdev

Seth’s Blog: Business development

Soocial • Hassle-free contacts
Address book/contact management

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How to Get Piles of Links, Subscribers and Comments

Front Page of The Press of Atlantic City
The front page of my hometown newspaper, refreshed daily.

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New analysis: California in for a devastating quake within 30 years
Scientists are calculating that the probability of a magnitude 6.7+ earthquake hitting somewhere in CA in the next 30 years is now more than 99 percent. And 2-1 odds that a quake of this magnitude hits LA. Yikes.

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Amazon Mechanical Turk
Online market place for work. Gives businesses and developers access to an on-demand scalable workforce.

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Joel Comm just released a free ’secrets to Shopzilla’ ebook about getting the most out of the Shopzilla Publisher Program.
If you’re thinking about using Shopzilla Publisher to monetize your site, this is a good introduction. Contrary to the title, I wouldn’t say it has any ’secrets’, but it does have some insight.
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I’ve always been a terrible ball player. I played baseball from my tee-ball years through 8th grade, and I can unequivocally say that I sucked. (Ultimately, I’d later realize that I was not really good at any sports that involved much coordination and I stuck to swim team).
Beyond all of this, I’m not [...]

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Via Preston Blog, the National Retail Association is forecasting 17% growth in 2008 for the Internet sector - with sales ranking in at $204 billion.  While the rest of the retail industry is expecting flat sales, it makes sense that growth will continue online.  As the economy depresses, more people will look to the web for [...]

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mybabytree.org
Through the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), you can pay a $5.50 to have a baby tree planted in the Indonesian rainforest. Then you can use Google Earth and watch it grow over the years.

Meat flavored water
Jacob Barber and I not only invented this idea in the 8th grade (1995), but we also [...]

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“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
-Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007. He speaks about achieving your childhood dreams and enabling the dreams of others.

I’ll tell you what: he really [...]

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A few years ago I bought a headlamp for hiking, camping, night bicycle riding, and other rough-and-tumble activities. What I never expected was that it would become an invaluable tool that I’d rely on nearly every day in modern life.

You see, my girlfriend generally likes to go to sleep at a time that is [...]

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Remember The Milk
Online to do list and task management

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Yan Bezugliy at ProBargainHunter.com created a Shopzilla Wordpress Plugin that makes price comparison integration within a blog post insanely easy. Users just need to provide their own Publisher ID and API key to use it (those can be attained by registering for the Shopzilla Publisher Program).
Here’s an example of the plugin in action, comparing [...]

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