Seth Godin says Internet shoe retailer Zappos wants you to use their customer support services:
Zappos wants you to call their 800 number. They want you to order too many shoes. They want you to return (at their expense) the shoes that don’t fit.
This is so diametrically opposite of how many companies function today - and [...]

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someecards.com
The only place I’ll go for ecards from now on - “ecards for when you care enough to hit send.” From the guys who brought your The Onion.

OpenX
Free, open source ad server

FON
Buy a $30 WiFi router, sell internet access from your house, contribute to a “wireless planet.” Cool concept.

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I’m heading to the TechCrunch party in Hollywood on Thursday… the theme? Geek-meets-chic. So witty.
Why not crash the fun? Here’s the info:
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm - midnight
Venue: Vanguard, 6021 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood
Who else is going?
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Jason Calacanis delivered a great keynote to kick-off Affiliate Summit West ‘08 back in February. If you are in the content business on the Internet, you should watch this:

Are affiliate marketers polluting the river? Some certainly are, and hopefully this keynote inspired a few of the guilty to conduct some thoughtful introspection.
I [...]

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I recently had the privilege of attending an advance screening of the documentary Young @ Heart. What a truly great film this is. It is my understanding that it was originally made for British TV, but this clearly has much higher aspirations than that.
The film follows the acclaimed, Massachusetts-based Young@Heart Chorus for 7 [...]

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For anyone who recently tried to view this site in Internet Explorer, my apologies for the following error message that you probably received:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site.
Operation aborted.
This pop-up message occurred because the default ScratchBack JavaScript code that I used tries to modify the parent container from inside a child <div> container.  The [...]

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First, let me say the primary purpose of this blog is not to make money… it’s to share my personal thoughts and insights on numerous topics (primarily technology, politics, and American culture), and to hopefully spur some thoughtful discourse in return. For this reason, the blog as a whole can appear very disjointed, and [...]

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A new site called Infochimps is making available tons of *huge* datasets for free.
There are many sources to find out something about everything. Until now, there’s been no good place for you to find [...]

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Wired is reporting on the recent AdWords CPC increases that have taken a toll on arbitragers and others. The argument in favor of these increases is that it allows Google to display fewer (but more relevant) ads, thus increasing the CTR.  On the flip side, some ad buyers are saying that it simply costs more [...]

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Piper Jaffray added Netflix (NFLX) to its Alpha list, signaling that the stock displays potential for solid near-term appreciation [link]. To back its outlook, Piper cited Blockbuster’s weaknesses and the fact that rent-by-mail currently makes up only 20% of the movie rental market.
I totally agree, in the short term. However, in the long term, [...]

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This morning I was checking my usual RSS feeds and was happy to see that many popular websites were rickrolling users in honor of April Fools Day. If you are unfamiliar with the prank of ‘rickrolling‘, it’s when someone mischievously provides a supposedly relevant link that ends up being Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give [...]

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