Rebranding For The Social Media

by Pete Abilla November 14, 2006

This is one of the most ingenious Rebranding efforts I’ve yet seen. Kentucky Fried Chicken recently unveiled their new logo, which puts an emphasis on Colonel Sanders, who is wearing a red apron, to emphasize that he was a person and the chef behind the chicken. As part of their Rebranding efforts, they’ve incorporated PR [...]

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Nuggets from The Business Plan Archive

by Pete Abilla November 13, 2006

The Business Plan Archive has some really interesting information. In concert with the Library of Congress, the Archive collects old business plans and items related to entrepreneurship. In their words: In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Archive collects and preserves [...]

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YouTube Founder Caught Mumbling “Web 3.0″

by Pete Abilla November 13, 2006

Please, please, say it ain’t so: Web 2.0 is lame and undescriptive enough and is over-used by many teeny-bopper type of folk; we don’t need to introduce the next ordinal digit into our lexicon and claim that a movement in social software. Please, please say it ain’t so. In case you didn’t know, Jawed Karim [...]

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Recognizing Constraints & Bottlenecks

by Pete Abilla November 13, 2006

All dynamic systems — online or offline — consists of discrete and dependent processes. Each step in the system has a finite capacity. When one step is feeding more than what the next step can handle, you’ll have yourself a constraint. Constraints or Bottlenecks aren’t bad, they’re expected and are found in any process. The [...]

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Psychology of Queueing & Build-A-Bear Workshop

by Pete Abilla November 10, 2006
This entry is part 8 of 28 in the series queueing theory

Last Saturday, we celbrated my daughter’s birthday. For her birthday, we took her and 13 of her friends to Build-A-Bear Workshop, which is a business that where you can: Choose your Bear Create a voice for your Bear Stuff the Bear Stitch the Bear Fluff the Bear Dress the Bear Name the Bear Then go [...]

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Balancing Authenticity with Monetization

by Pete Abilla November 10, 2006

I get contacted a lot by advertisers, wanting to advertise on shmula. I have YPN, but I also have TextLinkAds on this site. For several months, the revenue pays for hosting, etc. But, until recently, I’ve started to make quite a bit more and now I can actually buy pizza and even pay a utility [...]

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Recognizing Munjal’s Like.com

by Pete Abilla November 10, 2006

Like.com is amazing. I have to give serious props to the Riya team for creating such an excellent product that can be so helpful to many people, and has the business opportunities that has to have so many business development people envious that they aren’t working at Riya. Congratulations. Why didn’t I respond sooner to [...]

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The Art of Potty Training Twins

by Pete Abilla November 9, 2006

Our 4th and 5th children are 2-year old twin boys. They are fun and I love them. They are challenging at times and, now that they are 2 years old, they’ve become different people. One of them protest over the smallest thing; the other purrs like a cat all day long. Anyway, you get the [...]

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Kanban, Takt Time, & All-You-Can-Eat Meat

by Pete Abilla November 8, 2006

Last year sometime, while I was in Dallas, Fort Worth, for business, a few buddies and I ate at a highly-recommended restaurant called Texas de Brazil. It’s one of those all-you-can-eat meat places, with gourmet-style meats, a great salad bar, and just an excellent atmosphere. While I’m not a huge carnivore, I have to admit [...]

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