http://thoughtthought.com No more image consultants Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:02:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, so get this... you know how you can comment on a blog by reading it, ignoring the main point completely, and riffing off of a point made in the first sentence, because that's all you actually read -- the first sentence? Well, now you can skip the whole typing ... http://thoughtthought.com/thoughtthought-goes-seesmic-seeya-spammers/ If you're like me, you enjoy the drama and internationalism of the Olympic Games, and never tire in the irony of the racewalking competition.  Its internationalism is by design -- stated goal: "promote understanding through sporting competition". The ancient games united warring city-states from across the Greek world, and the ... http://thoughtthought.com/tutu-is-right-and-president-bush-should-miss-the-beijing-games-to-support-tibetan-freedom/ Every now and then I think to myself, how did Wordpress all of the sudden emerge as the best CMS in existence? Snooping around the web for interviews, profiles, reviews and other hints and clues, I came across this gem on their website: "Everyone who joins, regardless of position, does support ... http://thoughtthought.com/thanks-for-the-innovation-automattic/ I noticed that Mahalo had WP Designer in its list of WP blogs. I don't want to get sidetracked on Mahalo, but it's an interesting business, whose owner I have previously blogged about at long, boring length: It is a manually written content *per* keyword? Seems like a LOT of ... http://thoughtthought.com/wp-designer-mother-of-wp-market-ecommerce-theme-is-sold/ Check out this fantastic Web 2.0 resource for anyone looking to move beyond MS Word garbagio: Office 2.0 Database (It's much better than this pretender: http://itredux.com/office-20/database/ Why? Design is better.) In addition to User Ratings, they also added a category navigation. A bit a ironic this feature never existed until now, ... http://thoughtthought.com/office-20-database-finally-goes-web-20/ This weekend I had the pleasure of reading the branding and marketing classic The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries. This book contains essential insights into branding as it relates to marketing and business strategy. The book is organized into "Laws", such as the Law of ... http://thoughtthought.com/the-22-immutables-laws-of-branding-and-crm-part-1/ From a strategy perspective, it goes without saying that collecting and acting on in-site search data is a must. It's at least as valuable as the keyword data that brought people to your site, if not more, although it's an apples to oranges comparison really, and you'll find some sharp ... http://thoughtthought.com/setup-google-analytics-sitesearch-for-wordpress/ Highrise, I knew CRM, CRM was a friend of mine, and you're no CRM. Actually, CRM and I are still friends, and I count 37Signals design and development strategies as a friend as well. In fact, this weekend I dusted off my copy of 'Getting Real', a kind of product development ... http://thoughtthought.com/highrise-lives-up-to-getting-real-simplicity-standards-but-its-not-a-crm/ Just a quick update on the Convio security debacle I wrote about a few weeks ago -- the New York Times picked up the story and focused on the poor follow-up response by Convio and the general issue of how database companies deal with security issues. The article is provocatively titled ... http://thoughtthought.com/new-york-times-picks-up-convio-story/ Coming around the same time as Convio's security breach, Salesforce appears to have also been duped by a phishing scam that also resulted in huge customer lists being lost to spammers or worse. According to an article in the Washington Post, this security breach is known to have resulted in ... http://thoughtthought.com/salesforce-crm-list-is-hacked/