Player wages show high correlation with club position… C.R.E.A.M
Competitive inequality due to old money (Serie A/Liga BBVA) and new money (Chelsea).
source: abehnisch, 2008-09 uefa wages
How To Remove URL, subdomain or websites from Google index
Quick tumblr post on deleting/removing content from Google.
The Bible on deleting content from Google exists at canig.com: http://www.canig.com/menu/deletingpages/.
You can also try directly tweeting Squibble’s twitter account: https://twitter.com/#!/canig_squibble
Further resources on removing URLs:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/easier-url-removals-for-site-owners.html
Menu Engineering: Food Analytics 101
In its truest sense, the term menu engineering refers to the specific restaurant menu analysis methodology developed by Michael L. Kasavana, Ph.D and Donald J. Smith at the Michigan State University School of Hospitality Business in 1982.
Where amazing happens.
When product managers order pizza for the work crew.
Oh Yahoo :(
Conversion Rate Optimization - Screen Resolution Size
Simple optimization tip that _will_ have huge effect on your bottom line.
Optimize your site for your most popular screen resolution segment. If most of your customers are using 1024 x 768, then what does this chart - taken from one of most popular websites - tell you?
Why are the 1024x768 users not transacting as much as the second and third most popular screen resolutions, 1280x768 and 1280x800?
Answer that question for the above chart and you will have increased conversion by 33% for your most popular user segment. That equals = a huge chunk of happier users and a much happier bank account.
edit: Jon Mendez also talked about this way back in 2007: http://www.optimizeandprophesize.com/jonathan_mendezs_blog/2007/09/landing-page-re.html
The difference between utilizing network assets - social media vs. traditional news media
How two networks utilize their network assets:
Traditional News Media Network:
Cross promotional banner ads
Cross promotional ‘recommended’ articles/storiesCross promotion of member databases/email lists (aka solicited spam)
Cross linking for SEO benefit
Zynga:
Creates a rewards/loyalty program meta game called RewardVille, making their existing properties even stickier and keeping players on Zynga ecosystem for even longer.
Which one is more relevant for users?Marco.org: Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews
★★★★★: ★☆☆☆☆:
awesome, worth, thanks, amazing, simple, perfect, price, everything, ever, must, ipod, before, found, store, never, recommend, done, take, always, touch
waste, money, crashes, tried, useless, nothing, paid, open, deleted, downloaded, didn’t, says, stupid, anything, actually, account, bought, apple, already
(Source: marco)
Ryan Freitas: 35 Lessons in 35 Years
My father always told me that the day we stop learning is the day we die. I wrote this as a sort of preparation for my 35th birthday last week. Some of these are poignant, others are simply trite; I attribute the latter to my growing sense of sentimentality as I age. That, and I need an editor.
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