Squeak of the Week

Entries from August 2008

Games Without Frontiers: Fun Way to Lose Weight: Turn Dieting Into an RPG

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Why did Weight Watchers work so well? For a really fascinating reason: because it isn't a normal diet. It's something more. Something fun. It's a role playing game.

It's an RPG.

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration

What Makes for a Good Blog?

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Merlin Mann tells you what you need to know about creating a "good blog".

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SEO Series (Part 1) - Join the Search Party

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Editor’s Note: In the first part of an ongoing series on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), The Creative Department’s SEO BMOC, Officer Artie Grossman, rants that SEO don’t get no respect.
SEO practices have been around since at least 1995 and Google turns 10 years old next month, so why, WHY?!? in 2008, do I have to [...]

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Tags: Advertising

Escape a Date, Escape from a Meeting, Escape People

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

getmooh.com – an automated call back service that is designed to help you escape a variety of situations by calling you on your phone at a pre-specified time and playing you a recording which will either instruct you on what to say to elude your tormentor(s), or which will simply give a convincing sense of you being on an important call.

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration

Dell vs. Apple: Why It May Be Personal

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Former Apple vet Tim Bucher, now at Dell, is counting on his Zing software to give iTunes some competition

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration