Boston.com gives a great info-graphic on how to improve your napping habit. Whether you nap or not, it’s definitely worth reading.
Did you know: Mammals are programmed for 2 periods of intense sleepiness? It’s no wonder the coffee isn’t working.
Highly recommended.
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Here’s an article that has a formula for naming your start-up.
There are pros and cons to following formulas.
Pros, it’s easy, or seems to be.
Cons, it can limit your creativity and might not work.
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Wendy Bounds at the Wall Street Journal’s Independent Street, a resource for entrepreneurs, posted a list of 15 Blogs by Entrepreneurs Worth Reading. Among them are the well known – Seth Godin, John Janatsch, Guy Kawasaki, Kevin Kelly (best domain name of the bunch!) and Mark Cuban, the (perhaps) lesser known and several others that look like they are worth checking out.
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Om Malik at Gigaom gives a nice evaluation on LinkedIn’s recent $1billion valuation. By his calculations, the site is worth a little more than $1 billion due to the number of users.
People who know me know that I am a huge LinkedIn user (full disclosure: I’m a Premium User with 3.5K in my network) but this valuation is a little bittersweet since I’ve been getting a lot of errors at LI lately. On the messageboards, I’ve been seeing a fair amount of complaining about issues heavy users have been having.
That said, I reconnected with an old acquaintance in Holland. A guy I hadn’t spoken with in nearly 20 years. And it was great to reconnect. And, compared to other social networking sites, LinkedIn is by far the most professional and easiest to use.
So, yeah, bittersweet.
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We’ve been doing a fair amount of consulting on domain names lately. To better understand the dynamics of the domain industry, we started reading a number of blogs on domaining. Elliot Silver’s blog is one of the best ones out there. (In fact, Elliot’s blog was named Best Domainer’s Blog in 2008 by the Domainers Choice Awards and Best Blog Community of the Year in 2008 by Name Intelligence).
Yesterday, Elliot wrote about the acquisition of the “Hooray” domain name by Hoorray.com, a “Free Online Photo Album for Digital Photo Experts.” [Hurray.com, the name which I would first type, is a Chinese “provider of music and music-related products such as ringtones, ringbacktones, and truetones to mobile users in China over mobile networks and through the Internet.]
Elliot makes the point that cool-sounding company (or product) names can become a problem when they confuse visitors who type the domain name phonetically. Hoorray’s management must’ve agreed because they announced their acquisition of the Hooray.com name.
Blogs Elliot, according to a representative of the company,
“This is a significant step as we prepare to relaunch the 2.0 version of Hoorray later this summer,” said Robin Zieme, Director of New Ventures for Hoorray. “While the spelling of Hoorray with two r’s was not a hindrance, it will ensure that all traffic intended for our site comes our way.”
But cheaper is relative. If you’re trying to get traffic with a cutesy domain name, then you should register as many of the mis-spellings that you can. And if any of those are owned or parked, then you’ll need to pay more for them. Remember, there is a whole industry dedicated to buying and parking mis-spelled domain names.
