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What are the Myths of Marketing? — This is The Net Fool’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit - your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my own: There are certain misunderstandings about the internet marketing world that I feel you should all be aware of. Setting itself up as kind of an “elitist” group of people, internet marketers are the ones making thousands off of websites, products and other... [Tags: barriers to entry, bearings, bottom line, earnings, elitist group]

Online Christmas retail is far from freezing this year — Any notion that Christmas will be cancelled this year has been greatly exaggerated, according to the 14th Annual Christmas Retail Survey from Deloitte. The global auditor and advisory firm reports that for most of the UK population, the economic downturn will not be getting in the way of Christmas, with 57% of  consumers saying that they plan to spend the same amounts as they did last year.... [Tags: christmas, consumers, deloitte, economic downturn, notion]

Apple iPod shortage for Christmas? — We’re used to shortages during the holiday season. The Wii comes to mind. And you are probably aware of Amazon’s kindle situation. The iPod may be next. Word is that Apple is having trouble keeping up with the demand for the iPod as more and more customers place purchases during this holiday season, they may run out. The information comes from a research note from Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu. The Amazon.com stock levels seem to confirm the notion as well, since it currently takes up to 5 weeks to get your 8GB second-gen iPod touch. It’ll take 3-5 weeks... [Tags: amazon, apple ipod, christmas, customers place, fuze]

Terry Curtis Fox: Opportunities in the Big Three Bailout — If there is any clarity emerging out of the mess that was once the "Big Three," it's that health care and management are two primary causes of the industry's collapse. In both cases, however, the need for a government bailout may provide hidden opportunities. Management first: After their shameful Congressional appearance, there should be no question that Big Three management must go. They got the companies into this disaster and they have no idea how to get them out (much less any notion as to how to secure government funding). They need to be replaced by ambitious, creative, future-looking executives... [Tags: bailout, capitalists, clarity, collapse, curtis fox]

Getting OpenID Into the Browser — Google Chrome did a smart thing: Less. They unified the search box and address bar, since that's what people do anyway. That gives us back precious pixels for the only thing that's as important to an average web user as where they're going: Who they are. Identity belongs in the browser. Don't just believe me, just this week ReadWriteWeb talks about The End of Online Anonymity and TechCrunch on how Facebook Connect is the Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web. As Web 2.0 took root, the ability to login to... [Tags: anonymity, chris messina, downside, google, mainstream adoption]

Model-View-Controller — Misunderstood and Misused — paradox1x writes "Malcolm Tredinnick shares a terrific rant against the misunderstanding and misuse of the Model-View-Controller design pattern. In particular he takes issue with the notion that Django should be considered an MVC framework. He says that 'It's as valid as saying it's a "circus support mechanism," since the statement is both true, in some contexts, and false in others (you can definitely use Django-based code to help run your circus; stop looking so skeptical).' I'm not sure I agree with the entire piece, but it is a very good read." We recently discussed another look at the bending and... [Tags: circus, contexts, controller design, django, misunderstanding]

New survey finds families turning to TV for cheap entertainment — Filed under: Industry, Misc, Cable, Fiber, Internet, OTA, Satellite Lookie here, more of the same. With the current economic situation encouraging citizens to rethink their credit card-abusing habits, a Verizon-commissioned survey has (unsurprisingly) found that a majority of those polled will be turning to their TVs for low-cost entertainment. Out of the 1,026 adults surveyed, some 57% admitted that they were planning to spend "more time at home turning to their television instead of events outside the home." Naturally, Verizon took this opportunity to showcase just how cost efficient its FiOS TV offerings were in tough times, and if it... [Tags: adults, cheap entertainment, citizens, credit card, current economic situation]

John Q. Public — Conor profiles Greg Packer, the most often quoted man on the street: Our "authentic" man on the street is in a sense our elitist notion of Everyman: he dresses sloppily, wearing rumpled tee-shirts and baggy, formless shorts as Mr. Packer does; he holds a bunched up newspaper, and speaks nothing like a spokesperson or a pithy sound-byte man, but punctuates his sentences with the ums and uhs of the American vernacular, imperfections reporters excise from Greg Packer quotes as a courtesy to our source and our readers. The curse words that slip into Mr. Packer's sentences when he is exercised... [Tags: curse words, everyman, excise, greg packer, imperfections]

Together For Never Photo Exhibit — Opening tomorrow in Miami and presented by local artists Team Turbo Sex, "Together For Never" is a surreal trio of giant photographs that would fit perfectly above your family's dining room table. Alexis Mincolla, one half of Team Turbo Sex (TTS), explains that these photographs are a reflection of the notion of contemporary female friendships in Miami. The goal was "to make something that was as creepy as it was beautiful that plays off of a sort of repulsed fascination...to articulate the complex dynamic of close girlfriends and the external societal pressures that occur to them today." TTS is... [Tags: alexis, art basel miami, bertin, black sunday, dining room table]

Fool’s Gold?: The Truth Behind Angel Investing in America — Here is a book that talks about some interesting facts about Angel funding in America. Anita Campbell has done a good job reviewing the book on her website - smallbiztrends.com By Anita Campbell  If you’ve ever thought about seeking angel investment capital for your business, there’s a good chance you will start the process with some misconceptions.  Same goes if you are thinking of becoming an angel to invest in other businesses. For instance, you may have had the notion that individual angels are rich — or at least very well off — and invest a lot of money in each business.  Not necessarily so, says the new book... [Tags: angel investment, angel investments, angels, anita, business trends]

Words Fail — Freddie DeBoer on the limits of language:When we are presented with a grief so enormous and incomprehensible, we who have made language our business feel a desperate desire to use that language to make some sense of what we've confronting. We want to be heard, and we express ourselves out of the conviction that we must. That's natural. But the temptation, which we have to work to avoid, is to believe that there is some utility in merely piling up adjectives to express our frustration. The temptation is to believe that if one person is saying "awful," the second says... [Tags: adjectives, conviction, deboer, desperate desire, frustration]

Russell Bishop: Transformation Keys: Are You Missing Out On Life's Banquet Table? — As we roll out of Thanksgiving and race toward the next round of holidays, it might make sense to take stock of how this year has gone and begin thinking about what you can do to make next year even better. I know, for many of us, improving this year may not seem like much and the notion of "even better" may seem remote at best. Even so, let's carry the idea forward and begin looking to what you can do to make 2009 a better year for you, your family and those you care about. Typically, this kind of... [Tags: banquet table, basic principle, choices, economics, handful]

Mumbai and Social Media: Data is Not News — The flurry of tweets on Twitter following the terrible events that developed last Thursday in Mumbai have many New Media proponents once again promulgating the notion that Twitter and other social media services are not only changing the face of news media but are dramatically improving it. One of my favorite New Media news hypesters, Michael [...]... [Tags: last thursday, new media news, news media, notion, proponents]

Celebrity Art — Is nothing sacred? Linda Yablonsky asks:... how often does a work sell on the strength of an artist’s personality alone? “Most collectors are unaffected by artists’ personalities,” says [Mary] Boone. “They only care about the art.” But Donald Baechler has observed just the opposite. Through his friendship with such collectors of his art as Yoko Ono, Baechler has been bumping up against celebrity ever since his paintings of dripping ice-cream cones and long-stemmed roses hit the market in the early 1980s. “I met George Condo then, and it seemed to me people were taken with him before they were with... [Tags: 1980s, art critic, celebrity art, donald baechler, friendship]

The Intimacy Of The Urban — New research challenges the notion that city-dwellers are lonelier:“Every 20 or 30 years, we have a lament about the decline of community, and it’s usually due to cities and urbanization,” says Robert Sampson, the criminologist who chairs Harvard’s sociology department, when I visit him one sunny morning this fall. He mentions one of the classics of the genre, Louis Wirth’s Urbanism As a Way of Life. “It’s all about the impersonal way of life in the city—how it almost deranged people, led to this sort of schizoid personality, to psychosis and loneliness.” He smiles. “It’s a fun piece, actually. There’s... [Tags: bastions, cities and urbanization, city dwellers, criminologist, decline]

Saint-Etienne Design Biennale 2008: Energy Solstices, by Anais met den Ancxt — One of our absolute favorite projects in the Saint-Étienne Design Biennale was Anaïs met den Ancxt's Energy Solstices, a project completed as part of her post-diploma at Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design de St Etienne, partnered with EDF R&D. The project was one of many inspiring design investigations in the school's "Réalisme énerg#233;tique" exhibition, and had us scrambling for our cameras and sketchbooks. In Anaïs's project, the notion of daylight savings time is explored, arguing that its practical advantages have been blurred by technology, and that the purpose today would be to transform the practice "into seasonal rituals... [Tags: amount of time, amp, cameras, daylight savings time, ecole supérieure]

Black Friday, Apple-style — There are two approaches to Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that got its name from the notion that holiday shopping...... [Tags: apple, black friday, day after thanksgiving, holiday shopping, notion]

Beijing Olympics, DTV transition to thank for skyrocketing STB adoption in China — Filed under: Industry, DVRs, Set-top boxes While we doubted ABI Research's assertion set-top-box shipments would peak in just over three short years, new data from the house of CCID Consulting sure helps substantiate that very notion. The outfit has taken a cold, hard look at STB adoption in China, and what it found was that citizens were snapping 'em up this year like never before. The numbers show that sales were up 83.4% for the first three quarters of 2008 compared to the same window a year ago, and a couple of main occurrences were to thank. First off, the... [Tags: abi, adoption in china, analog signals, assertion, beijing olympics]

Instructables DIY gift ideas — Instructables has put together a list of suggestions for make-it-yourself gifts. I bet there's going to be a lot of handmade gifts this year. Great! A wonderful silver lining to leaner times. I have a scarf that a friend knitted me for my last birthday. I was so touched that someone had taken that much time to make something just for me. It felt as though her affection for me was actually encoded in the scarf, in the many hours of knitting it. I think about this every time I grab it from the closet and put it on. I'm... [Tags: affection, board books, devotion, family members, flap book]

Is email really efail - or, would you really run your business on Twitter? — I know its tres fashionable to trash email as a failure compared to more modern (aka incomplete) systems like Twitter etc (Coding Horror being the latest to cast aspersions) - but is it really true? For example, he pointed to thoughts by one Tantek Celik on the subject (abridged below) 1. Point to point communications do not scale. All forms of communication where you have to expend time and energy on communicating with a specific person (anything that has a notion of "To" in the interface that you have to fill in) are doomed to fail at some limit. If... [Tags: aspersions, celik, claim hundreds, dozens, email]