Off The Hook

Looking at the below social networking apps, did you notice a trend in naming their services?

MySpace



YouTube



Meebo

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posted by Chenster @ 12:00 PM 0 comments

Video Game Music Videos from YouTube:

"Cool Games"


"People of Battlefield 2"



Anime Video:

"Anime Dance Off!!!"


Cool cosplay Pic of the day:

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I was reading VCMike's blog this morning, and he linked to a super cool "Anousheh Ansari Space Blog." Anoushen Ansari (the first woman to buy her own ticket to space) = true pioneer.

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Photos from OneWebDay...


OneWebDay (nyc) celebration at The Battery Park...


Speakers (from left to right): Craig Newmark (craigslist), Scott Heiferman (meetup.com), Drew Schutte (WIRED magazine)...oh, and the crowd...


Contest winning design of global icon for Wifi hotspot...

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These are some of photos I took via my cellphone in the last couple of days...


Automatic fastfood vending machine on St. Marks...


Closeup view...


Jets vs Patriots at the Meadowlands...


A shoe repair stand in Chinatown...


People sitting on the sidewalk of Bedford street while eating pizza...


"TV on the Internet" panel at the NYTVF (New York TV Fest)...

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Chartreuse (BETA) has a great blog post

Chartreuse (BETA) has a great blog post on how to market a website - by using an analogy of "Why Paris Hilton Is Famous." Good stuff...

posted by Chenster @ 8:42 AM 0 comments

I just read a great blog post on "VC Mike" called "Marketing Myopia." It quoted a paragraph from Theodore Levitt's Havard Business Review piece to make its point...

“The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportation declined. That grew. The railroads are in trouble today not because that need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, and even telephones) but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves. They let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation business. The reason they defined their industry incorrectly was that they were railroad oriented instead of transportation oriented; they were product oriented instead of customer oriented.”

One of my mentors once told me that Godiva Chocolate is not in the chocolate business--its in the luxury food business. Thats so true. Godiva is NOT competing with Hershey's, but rather other gourmet and luxury foods.

The blog concludes with the point that in marketing its important to define your market based on how your product or service can solve the need of your customers rather than the types of your customers

posted by Chenster @ 12:15 PM 0 comments

Yesterday was my first time in Westchester (invited to a friend's party), and check out what I saw at the shore in Larchmont...the storm on Saturday did some damage here...

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