Entreprenews of the Week

September 30, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Entreprenews   

Kanye West has a blog, and its good
If you ever wanted to get in touch with Kanye West, this is the easiest way. Kanye’s blog is an interesting look at his interests, and hasn’t taken off yet, so your feedback might catch his attention.

Pixelmator - Image editing for the rest of us
This gorgeous Photoshop knock-off is now officially available for all the Macheads. If any of you pick a copy up, please do share your first impressions with YGG.

Seinfeld on Marketing ebook
Jerry Seinfeld, the new marketing case study. This is a really interesting metaphorical e-book tying some of the more famous skits on Seinfeld into insightful marketing points.

TiltViewer
This Flash Flickr viewer had to have been inspired by Dirt on the Xbox 360. Pretty cool interactive example of the Flickr API in use.

10 Tips for Writing Better Posts
Tips and lists. The magic combination for bloggers. If you’re blogging habit is in the gutter, this list might help.

Is Banksy Right?
Have all the greatest creatives gone commercial?

Trumpet Harmonica Has Got Monster Bells
For anyone planning to get married anytime soon, you have to get your Chapel to play “Here comes the bride” on this.

The Top 5 Uncommon Timesavers for Bloggers/Writers (Plus: Video of Me Kissing a Hairy “Coo�)
Some more great blogging tips, care of Mr. Four Hour Work Week himself.

Challenging Authority
This is a uniquely creative outdoor campaign for the new 2008 Challenger. I wish I thought of this.

How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve
Quick and few seems to be the magic formula for designing effectively for the web.

Big month for business mags

September 26, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Entreprenews   

Business 2.0 - Dead!

As you all know, Business 2.0 was axed by Time, Inc. a month or so ago, right when my subscription expired. To my surprise, another issue arrived in my mailbox today, labeled “Collector’s Item: Our Final Issue”.

Entrepreneur - Young Millionaires I picked up my first issue of B2.0 back in September 2002, and until subscribing last year, had rushed to the newsstand each and every month for a copy. The art direction started to go down the drain back in ‘05, but it was still one of the best reads for young go getters. So I’d recommend picking up this “final” issue. (Rambo was resurrected, so it wouldn’t be mad to imagine this mag coming back down the road as a 3.0)

Next, we’ve got Entrepreneur magazine. This month’s issue is the only one I buy throughout the year (sorry, not interested in 50,000 different franchises every issue). This is their annual Young Millionaires issue. The Jakes from Threadless finally made the list, which you can read for free online. I couldn’t read any deeper than the names; don’t want to ruin re-reading the print issue with envy 10,000 times.

Somehow ‘typo’ just doesn’t say it

September 25, 2007  |  By Eric  |  Entreprenews   

NSFP (not safe for print)

56 pt bold headline

Favicons: A new marketing trend?

September 24, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Entreprenews   

Favicons

A little over a month or so ago, CSS Remix launched a new version of their css gallery. One addition to the new direction was a “Promote Yourself” section with a couple rows of favicons. We tried to purchase one of these spots, but missed out on the row before the price started increasing. This was the first time I’ve seen anything like this.

It seems to be a growing trend, mainly in the gallery sector of sites, but I can see this taking off on blogs (at the footer of every blog post) and many other websites.

I think CSS Remix was first in the game, but now you have CMS Showcase, Design Snack, and I’m sure many others, jumping on board.

Does anyone else see this compact Million Dollar Homepage approach taking off?

Entreprenews of the Week

September 23, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Entreprenews   

27 Tips for Building a Kick-Ass Blog
You may think you’re a know-it-all when it comes to blogging at times, we sure as hell do, but these tips will help you realize how little your ego should be when you skip some of the simplest, most important steps.

Thirty-Five Minutes to Riches
Jack Bauer only has 35 minutes on the clock. He’s piss-poor broke. Which of these does he do?

The Top 15 Free SEO Tools
Free is nice. We like free. We also like acronyms. What are the odds?

What Do You Do When A Commenter Just Isn’t Hearing You?
You’ve done it before. You quickly scan an article and in less than a few seconds you already know how you’re going to tell the author how she hasn’t the slightest clue what she’s talking about. This is how you deal with evil commenters like that, besides Douche Baggiing them of course.

All Publicity Isn’t As Good As It Used To Be.
The king of publicity — and the cucaracha — sheds some light on the exposure we all so desire and it’s shortcomings.

How the perfect marketing plan would work
Something that many of us should write in the early stages of our business planning, but few do, this guide is the perfect starting point to the perfect marketing plan.

NorthxEast is Up For Sale! … and About Getting Ready to Sell
Collis has decided to put North X East up for grabs. If you have over $5,000 lying around, 1) Hire a financial advisor, or 2) Buy this website.

The Anatomy of Humor 6: “A guy walks into a bar . . .”
You thought you’ve heard all the “guy walks into a bar jokes”? Not a chance.

Your Last Lecture

September 20, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Entreprenews   

This went popular on Digg a few hours ago, but it still deserves the attention of everyone that’s yet to see it.

A professor, weeks away from death, recently shared his last lecture. One of his quotes mentioned in the video really got to me:

“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.”

Watch this short video a few times, and appreciate all you have while you still have it.