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May 2009 Blog Posts (4)

Getting Acquainted

On the job hunt! Looking for a planning position in the U.S. General Market or Hispanic.

Added by Jennifer Gomez on May 22, 2009 at 3:54pm — No Comments

Twitter search or Google? Do both: Twoogle

Twoogle provides an easy way to search both Twitter and Google from one single site, obtaining original results from each service, side by side. It helps that this subject of twitter vs google is hot at the moment and a real-time mash-up split page is a simple answer.

Popular Wisdom VS. Pagerank

Twoogle aims to make it easier to benefit from the real-time results provided by Twitter and the relevant sites provided by the most… Continue

Added by mark stone on May 13, 2009 at 6:13pm — No Comments

Jamie Oliver De-innovation: Cook out of home.

The back to basics approach is sometimes a good thing. Celeb chef Jamie's empire covers lots of areas, chef wear, kitchen wear, fancy pants restaurants. However, this one seems to be a loss leading almost charitable offering within the expensive cookery school sector.

Jamie Oliver has success again. “Recipease” (that's recipe's with ease) in Clapham Junction is London's outpost to the Brighton original and is winning praise… Continue

Added by mark stone on May 13, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Footwear hiphop: Run DMC have Adidas, now De La Soul have Nike

Hip hop co-branding seems to be working in cycles. Run DMC sung 'My Adidas' in 1985. They signed a a $1.6m deal to work their hip hop with Adidas. Now De La Soul (contemporaries of Run DMC) are hailing My Nike+ in 2009.

I haven't heard it but even if it's a hip hop mix of other peoples tunes, that is still the essence of hip hop and De La Soul are masters of borrowing and remixing. Therefore it's not originality to complement the… Continue

Added by mark stone on May 12, 2009 at 8:41pm — No Comments