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Unleashing the Idea Virus - The classic, no introduction needed

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This toaster prints the news or anything else you want onto your toast. Pretty pointless but still cool!

Via The Register.

Did a quick traffic search on alexa for three of my favourite blogs. Seth Godin's, Guy Kawasaki's and Steve Rubels. Interesting to see that traffic is down for all three over the past 6 months. Could be the impact of the quiter summer months of course, but I wonder if people are getting a little bored with reading these really popular blogs.

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I'm really sick and tired of all the self-proclaimed prophets you find on the internet. All of them with their one true mantra about how you should do this and how you should do that. Preaching to you about how they transformed their life or revolutionised their world. There is A LOT of great stuff in what they write, I promise you this, but after a while it still gets a bit annoying and sounds a bit preachy (or it just sounds like they're bragging).

I think the popularity of these types of personalities and their blogs is 90% down to people who are mentally masturbating about becoming some online guru or some leading life style programer. All the interesting people that I know are out there doing their shit and not reading and fantasising about how other people have done it.

So anyhows, here's my advice to you, and the secret to revolutionising mylife and becoming an amazing fullfilled person. Close the browser window.

Man living here would be sweet as a peach.



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via: NotCot.org

The beauty and elegance of Kiva's micro-loan system never ceases to impress me. $10 million in loans outstanding have recently been paid back. This means this $10 million is ready to be recycled and used to help even more people. This ability to re-use the funds people put forward over and over again is tremendously powerful. Rock on Kiva!

Ok so I've been playing around with google Chrome for a few days, still like Firefox 3 better on a whole, but Chrome is quick, and light. Also the way you can create desktop links to gmail, google reader, google doc etc very quickly and easily is very nice. Another feature that's very cool is the ability to search directly from the address bar. This is something you can do in firefox 3 and I find myself doing it more and more and more. If this behaviour of mine isn't completely unique, this could significantly change the way people search the net.

1. Why send people to google.com homepage when they can search google from any website they are on.

2. Why bother sending people to a page of ugly, garbled search results when you can pop-up a fresh and clean 'search page' with graphical previews of the top 5 websites matching their query (you can send them directly to the websites of the branded terms they're searching for).

3. How much more would companies pay to have their ads served in this way. Forget ugly little google text ads, bring on video, mini-registration forms and all other kinds of rich widgets google could serve on behalf of advertisers for the most contended search terms.

If the next edition of IE has this functionality working as well as Chrome or if Chrome gets really popular I don't think search engines will be relevant anymore. The 'browser' will do all. Surf, search, and run applications.

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When the Cuil search engine was launched a few months ago, there was much speculation that it could be the search engine of the future, the brave challenger that could finally knock Google from it's haughty throne. It seems since then the shine has somewhat worn off,

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