“A couple of weeks ago, Matt Mullenweg’s business cards broke. The Wordpress blog platform creator’s business card simply reads, ‘1. Go to Google. 2. Type ‘Matt.’ 3. Click ‘I feel lucky.'’ But when Matt’s Google score tanked, his card was useless for a few days. Thankfully, in the tough world of schmoozing, the Google trick is just one of the… Five ways to make business cards that people keep.”

“A startup can begin with a revolutionary idea but execute dismally. Another startup can begin with a mediocre idea but execute spectacularly. The startup which executes dismally will fail and the one which executes spectacularly will succeed.”

“Don’t have time to read Steven Covey’s book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People? Take a look at our summary articles written by Michael Gray.”

“Short and sweet, the Ribbon and new UI in Microsoft Office 2007 is the ballsiest new feature in the history of computer software. I’ve been using Office 12 for about six months, and not only has it made me more productive, I’m struck by the sheer ambition of the changes in this version. To clarify the point: Microsoft Office is a bigger business than most of us probably realize. Office generated $11.5 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2005, and it’ll exceed that in the current calendar year. But conservatively, you’re talking about a billion dollars a month.”

“Garett Rogers had this blog about ‘Google’s secret IPv6 plans.’ It appears that Google owns a block of IPv6 addresses numbering approximately 7.9 x 10^28 (79 billion billion billion addresses) or 2^96.”

“In my travels, the group that wants to know the most about marketing, and seems to know the most about marketing (except, of course, for marketers) is engineers. Software engineers and programmers, to be specific. Why? I think it’s because online marketing is particularly interesting and often allied with programming techniques. That and the fact that programmers toil long and hard and get bitter pretty quickly when some marketing dork screws up their efforts.”

“Speakers can be their own worst enemies. Here are our expert’s tips on how to make a presentation sing.”

“A few weeks ago I was doing a research project for a nonprofit organization with thirty employees. I struck up a conversation with the full-time IT person while she set me up with an Outlook account, a tedious process that took almost an hour… Later that day, I started wondering how a thirty-person, grant-funded nonprofit can justify employing a full-time IT person. Shouldn’t this valuable salary slot be recaptured and used for a person who serves the organization’s actual mission?”

“Getting Through Customs is an Internet product and training firm for global business travelers… Getting Through Customs’ online database is called Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: Expanded Edition (XE). Kiss Bow: XE is the leading online database for international business travelers…” (Thanks Airbag!)

“Here’s a technique for getting into a relaxed, sometimes even blissful state quickly. I found it in the book, Richard Hittleman’s Yoga. He calls the technique Alternate Nostril Breathing. Here’s how you do it…”

“Each of us have our busy lives and in this world of constant distractions, how can we stay focused on our goals? This article discusses several techniques I have found to work. For me, there are always several things constantly competing for my time — articles to write, business opportunities to explore, links to follow up, my daily work, personal commitments etc. In my experience whenever I try to work on many things at the same time, none of them actually gets done. In response, I’ve incorporated the following techniques for staying focused into my work patterns…”

“Uncommon Business is a blog about people who make money online selling unusual, strange and sometimes bizarre things or provide curious services. This isn’t ‘One Hundred And One Ideas For Your Homebased Business’ — only real, working businesses with URLs provided, so you can do further investigation on your own.”

“In Merlin’s latest 43 Folders podcast, The Perfect Apostrophe, he tells the story of the book he almost wrote. You should go listen to it - Merlin’s a stitch, as always. For the uninitiated, 43 Folders is a ‘Getting Things Done’ blog about how to be more organized in business and life. When he and a colleague were invited to write a book about personal productivity, it was like a dream come true for Merlin. I’ll let him tell you the story about what happened next, but suffice to say, the book never happened. The productivity expert procrastinated himself out of his own book.”

“Two recent articles about anthropology in the corporate environment caught my eye. The article in Fortune magazine focuses on anthropological work at Microsoft and contrasts modern corporate anthropology with its origins: ‘Their fieldwork is far removed from the popular perception of the anthropologist as lantern-jawed adventurer in baggy shorts and pith helmet, canoeing up the Amazon in search of the proverbial lost tribe. But there is a certain correspondence between Microsoft’s research agenda and the work of those old-time anthropologists…’”

“Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates announced Thursday that he will transition from day-to-day responsibilities at the company he co-founded to concentrate on the charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”