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Entries from December 2007

Being unremarkable?

December 17th, 2007 · No Comments

From Advertising Age‘s The Idea Conference, the ad trade’s respectable attempt to bring together a mash-up of interesting thinkers come a couple of memorable quotes “I believe advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.” “If you look for ideas in your industry, you’re stealing. If you steal ideas from other industries, that’s innovative.”

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Tags: Internet Marketing

The iPhone, Will it blend?

December 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Everybody knows that the iPhone can make phone calls, play movies & music, surf the web, and a lot more. But, Will It Blend? That is the question.

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Tags: Technology

Petrol Protest – Boycott ESSO & BP?

December 14th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Here is an email that I just received – regarding the price of fuel We are hitting £106.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.10 a ltr.   Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea: This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the ‘don’t buy petrol on a certain day campaign [...]

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Tags: Ramblings

Seat Guru

December 11th, 2007 · No Comments

For anyone planning to fly on a commercial airliner this site will help you choose which seats to book.  Simly select the airline and then look at the guide to see what seats are rated good or poor and make your choice…. Go to the seat guru The ultimate source for airplane seating, in-flight amenities [...]

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The Death of Network Marketing…

December 8th, 2007 · No Comments

There is a lot of hype about the Death of this and the Death of that, so when I got an email about Ellie Drake’s and Mike Filsaime’s Free Report called – “The Death of NetworkMarketing” I took a long breath and was about to hit the delete key. The report suggests that Network Marketing may be dying. [...]

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Tags: Internet Marketing

TomTom users to get Google Maps help

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

TomTom, the Netherlands-based navigation service provider, has announced that it has teamed up with Google Maps to enable its customers to send information directly from the Google Maps website to TomTom devices. TomTom customers will be allowed to transfer business addresses from Google Maps to TomTom devices through the ‘send to GPS’ option. Google Maps [...]

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Tags: Technology

Chinese hackers target Shell & Rolls Royce

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Chinese hackers have attacked the UK’s leading engineering company Rolls-Royce and the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, according to a report in The Times newspaper. The news comes in the wake of a warning by the recent annual Virtual Criminology Report that the UK could be the target of internet spying by China and [...]

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Tags: Technology

Elephants repelled by bees

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

National Wildlife reports: They might be giants, but African elephants are now running in fear from one of the continent’s smaller animals—honey bees. As agriculture has extended into more and more of Africa’s arable land, the elephant, despite the population decline it has suffered in recent years from poaching, has increasingly come into conflict with [...]

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Tags: Ramblings