With that said, those of you who don't know Gary Vay-ner-chuck are missing out. He's an absolute A-list in the online world. He has the energy and motivation of a Marine Corps drill instructor and the knowledge and wisdom of Miyagi. Whether you believe in his ideas or not you will enjoy this book. I HIGHLY recommend the Audible version, as it has a lot of added commentary that add even more value.
Crush It! is an awesome book that you need to read. As a matter of fact, if you don't believe me send me an e-mail and I'll send you a copy for free. That's how much I believe in this book.
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Some of you may have noticed the fact that Firefox and Google (at least) have listed WarGamesLAN.net as a malicious site. I wanted to explain why this is.
Google runs a service called AdSense, in which you put ads on your site and in turn the site owner and Google split the commission. On the last site, I had an AdSense banner at the top of the page. The only possible way that there were any harmful materials on my site (since it was so bare to begin with) is if it was loaded from that AdSense banner. I have since removed the banner and will not be putting it back up. I would rather stop making the little bit that it provided then have my site marked as malicious because of it.
This is why giving Google so much power is a bad thing. I have requested a review of my site, but lord knows how long it will take to be white listed, or if it will even be white listed at all (since, after all, I stopped putting the AdSense banners on my site).
I will update this blog and the WGL Blog when the new site is up and when we are removed from Googles blacklist.
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While reading through my "buzz" list today, I noticed an interesting comment. It read along the lines of "trying to figure out what the correlation between Buzz, Gmail and Wave are, still haven't gotten it". This brings up a good point, but exactly IS the relationship between these? I think it may be more than we can see right now. What if Wave isn't neccessarily going to be and end-user product, but a platform of sorts for things like buzz and Gmail? It's already been announced awhile ago that the Wave team will release the Wave protocol, so third-party developers can create programs, servers, etc. based around it. We won't be just stuck with Google's Wave iteration. Buzz on the other hand seems rather - plain - especially by Google standards. This also brings up the questions, WHY is it paired so heavily with Gmail? I can certainly see the relationship between these 3 deepening in the near future.
Twitter As A Platform
I don't think there is any question that Twitter is already a platform. I haven't visited the site in who knows how long. With TweetCaster on my phone and TweetDeck on my computers, I have absolutely no need to actually visit the Twitter site. Going along with what I said about Wave, why couldn't Twitter be a full fledged protocol/platform? It already pretty much is, so why not just let the site slowly slip into darkness as you develop more and more features that third parties are able to use with the Twitter APIs? Let the users decide which features they want to use, and they in turn can choose the corresponding program that contains their chosen features. I'm thinking of this in terms of web browsers. When you look at it that way... why not?
More soon...
]]>What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis
'What Would Google Do?' is a book by Jeff Jarvis that focuses on how to bring your business into the "Google age", by thinking like Google and other significant web properties. I'm not going to delve into too much detail, but it's definitely worth looking at, as it's as much about promoting your own brand (more on that in a later post) as it is about your companies brand. Take a look!
'What Would Google Do?' by Jeff Jarvis, is also available on Audible.com.
]]>Contrary to what it may seem, the Everyman sleep schedule would PROBABLY work for a lot of people. Unfortunately, I am not one of those people. Due to the odd hours myself and my wife work, having any sort of sleep "schedule" is far from a reasonable idea.
Also not release before is the news that I was going to Thailand. I went, worked the whole time, had too many problems to name, came home. That was it. No more, no less. Maybe, possibly, I'll post pictures of the adventure later.
With that, I also have gotten two new gadgets, an AppleTV, and... a Nexus One... duh duh duh.
I will write about both later, I have pictures of the two that I'd like to share, so I'll wait until then to post.
Also coming soon, my thoughts on the state of news in the world filled with Twitter, also thoughts on mass overreaction and how it could be coming to an end.
]]>Everyman Sleep Schedule - Day 0 from William Bunce on Vimeo.
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