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Last night, I was on the floor playing with my toddler and I noticed that he was shaking a maraca — so we had a daddy/baby jam session, with me tapping on the carpet and with him shaking the maraca.  Then, I noticed what the maraca said: “AIG – Sun America”. I thought, “hey, maybe [...]

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PowerPoint is a world of incomplete sentences, fragmented thoughts, unemotional, dispassionate, and semantically-empty byte-size blob of consultant-speak. Okay — maybe that tone is too strong but, generally, PowerPoint is not the most effective medium of communication.  I think most people would agree with that.  There are ways to communicate and effective ways of creating an [...]

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I meant to post about site metrics for shmula.com in 2007, but am obviously very late.  In what follows, I’ll summarize the shmula.com blog traffic, reader demographics including gender, household income, and geolocation, feed subscribers, and also other site metric items. 2007 was a good year, though a much slower year in terms of posts [...]

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Peak Season at Amazon was so fun and memorable and the queues are massive. There are two peak season — the inbound peak and the outbound peak.  Inbound is when inventory is brought into the Fulfillment Centers (FC), which is around August to September.  Thanksgiving and beyond is the outbound peak season.  It’s a busy [...]

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I’m not really a person interested in politics, but I have to say that I like Barack Obama’ style.  I don’t know much about his political beliefs or, really, any of the presidential candidates beliefs, but Obama’s style is pretty cool.   He asked a question on Linkedin Answers and, so far, there are 1459 responses.  [...]

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This is an invitation to all former Amazon employees to join the Amazon Alumni Group on Linkedin.  I moderate the group and we currently have 91 members that were former employees at Amazon.  Some of the former Amazonians are now at Google, eBay, Facebook (5 at last count), Peerflix, Jobster, Microsoft, Last.fm, Yahoo!, TripAdvisor, and [...]

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Here’s one of those case studies that questions the claim that "All Buzz is Good Buzz."  Microsoft’s Ad Agency wasn’t paying attention to the details and carelessly show a A Vista Ad with an Apple iBook in it — this can be seen in your nearest Best Buy.  I don’t fault Microsoft for this mistake; [...]

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