- How to become famous on the internet (aka become a famous internet personality)
First things first: internet famous doesn't mean real world famous. Now that we have got that right, here are some ways people have become famoous on the internet.
Basically it amounts to being the most quirky person …
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- How to identify bad books: Or, How to identify and stay away from books with smart titles and fancy generalizations
This decade has seen a big spurt in non-fiction books with smart titles becoming popular - aka the 'Gladwell books' - books with smart titles (World is flat, Four hour workweek, What would Google do?), books containing …
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- 8 ways to deal with copy-protected web pages
Many times, we want to copy something from a web page while we are writing or researching something, but teh web page turns out to be copy protected. Here's eight ways you can deal with it:
- print as pdf, then select…
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- How to use workplace boredom to your advantage
So, you got nothing to do at work. Lucky guy. A good way to stay interested in work, which will also help you get better is to look at the last piece of work you complete the other day and audit it - What went rightMist…
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- How to get Linkedin to stop sending you spammy emails
Here's two facts about LinkedIn everyone must know: 1. It is a spam machine as no one likes to visit one's resume repeatedly 2. LinkedIn is more useful to HR companies who in turn spam all the time, than the average user…
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- How to influence customer service people and make friends with them
If you are lucky enough to pass through the maze of IVR choices, then now you got to make the customer service person at the other end really help you out with your problem, which can be a long drawn and often impossible…
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- 21 ways to make money online (not the ways you think)
This article is not about usual 'make money online' tips. Rather, it is about being prepared for a long, sincere haul, written by an old hand at writing at writing pithy advice posts.
1. The first step is to stop Googli…
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- Which words bring you most connections on LinkedIn?
I have always believed that LinkedIn, being a gloridied Resume hosting site, is more useful to recruiters than the average professional, and this list of most connected words on LinkedIn sort of prove me right - it is fu…
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- How to be a Pinterest Superstar: Post food-related items and say love a lot
Here's 3 things that you need to have in your post to be a Pinterest (the visual del.icio.us) superstar:
1. Descriptions about 200 characters
2. Most repinnable words are food related items: recipes, chicken, minutes…
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- What is the best time of the day to blog?
If your primary audience lives in America, then the time around 8 AM ET (Eastern Time Zone - that is, New York time), give or take an hour before or after, is the best time to blog your post to ensure that it gets the mo…
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- How to be a Twitter Superstar Part 2 - Don't follow the herd
Dan Zarella of Hubspot says you don't need to follow others and Tweet like crazy all the time. Instead, he says, Tweet during off-peak times, when there is less noise to drown your voice down. Saturdays and late Fridays …
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- How many of your Tweets should be links or replies?
Dan Zarella of Hubspot studied 100,000 Tweets and comes to the conclusion that 60-80% of your Tweets should be links or replies, again re-enforcing the idea that Twitter is a social sharing site first and foremost.
A…
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- 8 ways to get more clicks on Twitter
For quite some time, I haven't posted about tech tips here. So, here I am going to post a series of tips for bloggers and Twitteratis. First, how to get more clicks on Twitter:
1. Write tweets b/w 120-130 chars
2. Plac…
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- How to avoid being automatically recognized in surveillance photos: Tilt your head
Staying safe and hidden from unnecessary prying eyes (intrusive government agencies, voyeristic friends on Facebook, etc.) is important. This video teaches you how. The short version is: Tilt your head before any camera …
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- Simple things #3: How to give up smoking - text poster
The third text poster in the Simple Things series - How to give up smoking.
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- How cookbook ghostwriters work
Ghostwriting is common among business leaders, sports figures and celebrities... and cooks. One such ghostwriter, with years of experience writes about the craft in the New York Times. The parts that I liked:
One …
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- How to be creative, idea #51: Be drunk and sleepy
A study claims that sleepy people (researchers studied a group of students), like a brain-damaged patient, benefit from the inability to focus. The study says that since the minds are drowsy and disorganized, they often …
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- How anyone can predict the future: Just trust your gut feelings
'Go with your gut instincts', goes the saying. And now it has been proven right by researchers at Columbia University who call this the "emotional oracle effect".Basically, what it means that your gut feeling is your int…
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- 4 ways how to keep your Google (and Chrome)-related activities private from Google
The best idea to deal with Google looking into your life may be not to use Google, but even with its flaws, Google is the best option. So, what else can you do to put blinkers on Google's always-on eyesSome sugestions fr…
Topic: Google, Privacy, Howto, Geek | Read more
- Two simple but highly effective ways to use Facebook: reducing all the privacy risks
Danah Boyd writes about two smart, young people who manage their Facebook presence smartly:
1. Super log off: One young person deactivates her Facebook account every time she logs off.
Deactivation does not delete y…
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