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30th June 2004

The Branding of Polaroid, 1957 - 1977

“How we beat Eastman Kodak and its little yellow boxes at point of purchase despite a clunky product and an irrelevant corporate name.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)

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30th June 2004

threetwoone.org/diagrams

Visio-like diagrams showing a variety of information, such as how the countries of the world are connected to each other, Wall Street scandals and the Book of Genesis. (Thanks kottke.org!)

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30th June 2004

PhotoQuotes.com

“Welcome, fellow photographers from around the world. We have collected quotations that we hope will help promote the art of photography. If the reader is aware of others that deserve to be recognized here, we would appreciate your sending them to us.”

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30th June 2004

“The Building of Basecamp” Review

“The biggest thing I pulled out of the workshop is that you don’t have to follow all ‘the rules’ to make something great. When you think about companies delivering services over the Web, you think about…org charts, support staff, call centers, requirements documents, functional specifications, etc. 37 Signals will blow this perception apart pretty quickly. There are just three guys: Jason, Matt, and Ryan. That’s it. They don’t even have a full-time programmer. David works for them part-time. From Denmark.”

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