"Whether you need a spare copy of an important key or are just tired of having the sorting through a bunch of similar keys to find the one you need, the Key of Rock (£15, ~$23) is here to help. This guitar-shaped blank comes ready for you to take to the key cutter, instantly jazzing up your keyring and making whatever key you choose to copy easier to find. Keychain amp not included." - Nick Mutton
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"Gold is poised for a dramatic surge and could blast through $2,000 an ounce by the end of next year as central banks flood the world's monetary system with liquidity, according to an internal client note from the US bank Citigroup." - Nick Mutton
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"In search of the ultimate sushi experience, the author plunges into the frenzy of the world's biggest seafood market—Tokyo's Tsukiji, where a bluefin tuna can fetch more than $170,000 at auction—and discovers the artistry between ocean and plate, as well as some fishy surprises." - Nick Mutton
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"By night, Joe Ades dines with his fourth wife at exclusive restaurants, sips Veuve Clicquot at the Pierre, and goes home to a three-bedroom Park Avenue apartment. By day, he is something else altogether. At 72, the “peeler guy” in the Turnbull & Asser shirts is a New York legend." - Nick Mutton
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"With an estimated fortune of $62 billion, Warren Buffett is the richest man in the entire world. In 1962, when he began buying stock in Berkshire Hathaway, a share cost $7.50. Today, Buffett, 78, is Berkshire's chairman and CEO, and one share of the company's class A stock worth close to $119,000. He credits his astonishing success to several key strategies, which he has shared with writer Alice Schroeder." - Nick Mutton
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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Northrop Grumman Corp U.S. military satellite used to track enemy missiles stopped working in mid-September, underscoring the urgent need to keep a program for replacement satellites on track, a defense official and several analysts said on Monday." - Nick Mutton
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"DUBAI (Reuters) - The seaside emirate of Dubai shifted into crisis mode this week as its breakneck building boom stalled, its lending bonanza evaporated and the government pondered wider steps to rescue banks." - Nick Mutton
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The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series takes place every Wednesday during the academic year. You can subscribe using iTunes or directly via RSS feed rss badge. - Nick Mutton
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"Business models are perhaps the most discussed and least understood aspect of the web. There is so much talk about how the web changes traditional business models. But there is little clear-cut evidence of exactly what this means.
In the most basic sense, a business model is the method of doing business by which a company can sustain itself -- that is, generate revenue. The business model spells-out how a company makes money by specifying where it is positioned in the value chain." The basic categories of business models discussed in the table below include:
* Brokerage
* Advertising
* Infomediary
* Merchant
* Manufacturer (Direct)
* Affiliate
* Community
* Subscription
* Utility - Nick Mutton
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"The SEOmoz toolset includes over twenty SEO tools designed to help with every aspect of search engine optimization, including on-page targeting, site crawlability, competitive analysis, rank checking and keyword difficulty". - Nick Mutton
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"Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully useful. There are certainly many things that I know now that would have been extremely useful to me earlier in my life; things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years—and most of those that I inflicted on others too...So here are some of the things I wish I had learned long ago." - Nick Mutton
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My undergrad CS department didn't have anything this focused on a single technology or programming environment... The fact that Stanford offer such relevant coursework is a testament to them. - Nick Mutton
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With an application being used by salesmen, the most demanded feature has no doubt been a Blackberry version.
I found a good tutorial on developing for the iPhone but almost nothing on working with Blackberry’s, so I decided to post some notes to help any rails developers creating a Blackberry version of their application.
The goal in creating the mobile version was to:
* Minimize the size of the application
* Reduce features to only those necessary when on the road
* Optimize the UI for the smaller screen - Nick Mutton
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"How the author of Permission Marketing used online savvy and smart self-promotion to become a speaker, writer, and blogger in demand". - Nick Mutton
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"With Wall Street in turmoil and a financial system in crisis mode, companies are facing another major challenge: figuring out how to manage a new crop of young people in the work force -- the millennial generation. Born between 1980 and 2001, the millennials were coddled by their parents and nurtured with a strong sense of entitlement. In this adaptation from "The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaking Up the Workplace," Ron Alsop, a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, describes the workplace attitudes of the millennials and employers' efforts to manage these demanding rookies." - Nick Mutton
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MIT's legacy as one of the world's most prestigious technical universities has a curious byproduct -- a history of clever pranks, or "hacks". For example, in 2007 MIT pranksters transformed a statue of John Harvard -- the founder of Cambridge's other well-known university -- into a video game character from "Halo 3." - Nick Mutton
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"DEPRIVE a person of oxygen and he will turn blue, collapse and eventually die. Deprive economies of credit and a similar process kicks in." - Nick Mutton
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"What do you call a country with a thriving financial services sector and everything else rusting and obsolete? England. The City of London has been a leading provider of financial services worldwide for the last couple of centuries. During this period the rest of the country has lost its empire, lost its military power, lost its leadership position in scientific and engineering research, lost its leadership in manufacturing, and suffered from slow economic growth compared to its European neighbors." - Nick Mutton
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The sculpture of a sinking boat which sits in London's Thames river in front of the city's business center, seemed an apt metaphor for state of the global financial market on Tuesday. - Nick Mutton
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Another headline read, “Should I leave my fiancé? … I guess I already know the answer. My boyfriend … rather fiancé, is/was employed by Lehman Brothers,” the posting stated. “In less than a week we went from being millionaires to just having a couple of 100K … I suppose this means it’s over. I am who I am. I personally blame all this on [Lehman CEO] Dick Fuld. I blame him for ruining my happiness.” Unbelievable! - Nick Mutton
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