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7 Deadly Sins of Digital

A UK-based company called Web Windows has spammed me a few times. Here’s the email I received:

If [Name removed]’s budgets are limited and you’re looking for extra traffic to the site I’ve got a last-minute ad in the The Independent on Sunday’s Review Magazine which is going at the snip of a rate – just £245.

This gets you a colour single panel ad in front of a readership of 644,000.

Unfortunately for me, we are down on staff and deadlines are looming for our 12th August issue, hence the major price drop. To find out more media information click here.

As we are approaching our copy deadline the page must be sent no later than Friday at 12.30pm.

There is lots more information on our website www.webwindows.co.uk

If you have not tried out advertising in the colour weekend press, now would be a perfect time to test the media at an extraordinarily low rate.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Ruth Cowley
ruth@webwindows.co.uk
020 7649 9712
www.webwindows.co.uk

If wonder if The Independent on Sunday is appreciative of their tactics. They even have a “opt out” link on their email which leads to a blind thank you page.

Send them some spam back: info@webwindows.co.uk

James McKay is back with Comment Timeout 2.0, an update to a WordPress plugin I use. He;s gone for a complete rewrite from the ground up with some new features, including: Per-post settings, Extended discussions for popular posts, Send to moderation queue, and Advance warning.

Note: it only works with the WP 2.x branch.

Comment Timeout 2.0

An ironic website for all the design/models in the world:

DesignerSlashModel

The Vimeo Prank War: Streeter Seidell and Amir work for CollegeHumor. One day, Streeter decides to pull an little prank on Amir. Amir then pranks back. Streeter retaliates. Amir dito.

And now, in the fifth battle of the Prank War, Amir gets owned big time.
To be continued …

Guy Kawasaki is a smart guy: his 10-20-30 Rule of PowerPoint says that a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.

Guy says:

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.

He goes on to list the ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:

1. Problem
2. Your solution
3. Business model
4. Underlying magic/technology
5. Marketing and sales
6. Competition
7. Team
8. Projections and milestones
9. Status and timeline
10. Summary and call to action

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint