3ruce’s Blog

• Dexplore, Play the World – Travel Guide, Playing Cards and Discounts deck.
  Playing cards for tourists with added extras… by Mr. Will Bates
  (tags: cool_companies humour_novelty cards games)

A mix by me

http://www.dnbshare.com/download/Mix_01_-_DJ_Me.mp3.html

Blue Corvette – Greenfly
Perennial Spring – Intersperse
Like This – Nu Moon
Solid Ground – Vise Versa
You make me Feel – Makoto
Millenium (Carlito remix) – Big Bud
Joy – Makoto
Yellow River – Akira
Heaven – Carlito

• blog.pmarca.com: HP buys my company Opsware for more than $1.6 billion in cash
  In September 2002, we did a complete restart as a public company — we sold our managed services business to EDS and turned Loudcloud into Opsware, a software company based on the core intellectual property developed at Loudcloud.
  (tags: business entrepreneur money startup opsware venture ipo hp acquisition)
• blog.pmarca.com: And way off in the distance, $165 million is tossed into an incinerator…
  The Theseus research project — the German arm of what the French call Quaero — is aiming to develop the world’s most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation Internet. It would translate, identify and index images, audio and text.
  (tags: europe google search fragmentation collaboration internet software)
• blog.pmarca.com: Book of the week: Best book for tech entrepreneurs this year
  In a nutshell, Steve proposes that companies need a Customer Development process that complements their Product Development Process. And he lays out exactly what he thinks that Customer Development process should be. This goes directly to the theory of Pr
  (tags: entrepreneur startup books startups marketing product_development customers customer_champions)
• blog.pmarca.com: Paper of the week: The Justin Timberlake effect
  The reason is that when people tend to like what other people like, differences in popularity are subject to what is called “cumulative advantage,” or the “rich get richer” effect. This means that if one object happens to be slightly more popular
  (tags: Psychology social music marketing identity networks socialnetworking structure communication)
• B2B Lead Generation Blog: Podcast: Interview with MarketingSherpa’s Anne Holland
  Companies who provided fewer but higher quality “sales ready” leads to their sale people have better sales conversion rates than those that send lots of early stage leads and that creating a “cost per lead” culture just does not work.
  (tags: leads sales costs culture roi marketing)
• Six Sigma and Innovation – Innoblog
  However, six sigma and innovation are both essential for an organization. Six sigma impacts the bottomline while innovation grows the top line. Big companies like P&G and GE have gone on record saying that they are looking for 4-6% organic growth (~growin
  (tags: six_sigma growth innovation change management)

• BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US cat ‘predicts patient deaths’
  US cat ‘predicts patient deaths’ Oscar the cat Oscar meows in protest if removed from the room of a dying patient A US cat that is reportedly able to sense when a nursing home’s residents are about to die is baffling doctors.
  (tags: culture death medicine news prediction cat animals health)

• Food services firm Sodexho brings outsourced recruitment back in house
  Food services company Sodexho is bringing all its recruitment back in-house after a three-year outsourcing deal failed to work out, Personnel Today has learned.
  (tags: outsourcing hr recruitment relationships efficiency)