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You've seen, by now, the Shit Girls Say video that has spawned countless other videos of common/stereotypical things people of one group say to people of another group. Maybe you thought to yourself, "Hey, I'd really like to make one of these videos." NOW YOU CAN. With the "Shit 'So and Sos' Say to 'So and Sos' Video Random Idea Generator" you are mere moments away from your very own video idea. Click the button below to get your own idea TODAY!
















So now you have your own video idea. Go out and make us proud! If you liked your video idea, share it below. Thanks to Andy for some help with the code.


LOL

Square is hiring all the best Silicon Valley talent, not Twitter, Zynga, or Facebook. This is good because I hope they put the companies that manage credit card transactions out of business. I actually did laugh out loud at the reaction.

Our recruiter does not give Square perfect grades for its recruiting, however. She insists the company is making a big mistake hiring so many Ruby on Rails developers, who tend to be 'hipsters with neckbeards.' We asked a source close to Square for his reaction to this concern, and he said, 'LOL.'

Why? Because you’re a cow. Now shut up and consume your content.

Kent Brewster's on Facebook's design changes, or rather people complaining about them. Shades of, "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold," but a little more in your face. Props for posting it directly to FB, too.

Dear people who whine about interface changes on Facebook:


Unless you are paying money to advertise on Facebook, you are not a Facebook customer. As far as Facebook is concerned, you're not even a human being. You are one of an infinite herd of cows. Facebook (and its faithful ranch-hand Zynga) spreads a thick layer of content for you every morning, you chew it up all day, and they milk you for your lovely creamy clicks every night.


Sure, you might have been calved on the nearby Yahoo or MySpace farms, and you might someday slip under the pasture fence to the greener grass of Google+, but in the end ... you're a cow. Moo all you want about how Facebook went and moved the damn salt lick again; they're not going to listen.


Why? Because you're a cow. Now shut up and consume your content.




Via Joshua Nguyen / Dens

It’s true

Al Swearengen doesn't like anything, and Stellar.io knows this.

Open letters to Bon Jovi

Steve Jobs isn’t the problem here. The music industry is the problem—too many bad songs are the problem. It’s the reason the audience doesn’t roar when you talk about playing a new track or two that were added for a re-release of your greatest hits. If your greatest hits were from the last three years, imagine how much money you’d be making on album sales even beyond your touring.

In a letter from Jeremy Horwitz to Bon Jovi who recently said "Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business."

Via

But then I also went back to look at all of the Open Letters to Bon Jovi I could find:

An Open Letter to Bon Jovi (Regarding Setlists)

An Open Letter to Bon Jovi (Regarding Palestine)

An Open Letter to Bon Jovi (Plea for Tickets)

An Open Letter to Bon Jovi (Crush Review)


Making a living on Youtube

Reading an article about how much money Rebecca Black made as a laughing stock of the internet and saw this nugget.
At 30,000,000 views, that lands Black and Ark Music Factory $20,000 – a 1000% return on investment.

Is that true? Google needs to monetize those views better.


Random Facebook pages showing up in my feed

The other day, I noticed a few items in my Facebook stream that I hadn't "Liked". I figured it was a glitch of some sort. Then it happened again today. I went and looked at my pages and there 10 or so pages I was subscribed to I'd never seen before and would never subscribe to. For instance, I found myself a fan of Phil Fischer, a Christian musician that just completed The Tea Party Song and is asking his fans for $113K so he can get it played on Christian radio. I emailed him to ask if he knew how I had ended up liking his page, and will update when I hear back. If you check his Facebook page, this seems to have happened to other people as well.

I couldn't find much else online about this happening to other people, except for this post on Facebook support. If this happened to you or you see any other info about it, let me know because I'm curious.

Foursquare 3.0

All along it seems like Foursquare has been trying to make it easier for everyone to make their own Feltron Annual Report. I'm OK with that. It's certainly what I like to use about it. Looking more closely in my account a couple months ago, I found the Stats page which says it's inspired by the Feltron reports. 3.0 described here.

Newsweek

I've been traveling and I saw the George Clooney Newsweek in the airport. Cripes... At what point does it get downgraded from a magazine to a pamphlet? I remember thinking that merging a website losing about $10 million a year with a magazine losing about $25 million a year didn't seem like a good idea... I had a couple tabs opens of articles I was going to link to about this whole thing, but I lost'em all a couple weeks ago and then forgot about it until I saw Clooney's mug staring back at me from what looked like a comic book.

How to hire an SEO expert

This is the standard against which all SEO experts should be measured. If your SEO consultant isn't a rapper you're really not spending your budget the right way.



Via Videogum, thanks Adam.

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