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Google Retires Picasa, Blogger Brands

Google’s foray into social has already increased its market cap by$20 billion. The search giant is now retiring its Picasa and Blogger brands to focus on its growing social network, Google+, reports Mashable.

This is a smart move because weak brands dilute core brands in saturated markets. Perfect branding lies in the sweet spot between unique and recognizable. Smaller brands with many competitors strengthen the core Google brand by living under the mothership’s umbrella.

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Domain names are big business. Your ISP’s monthly cap is a loss leader for hosting services with 500% mark-ups. They gave you a generic email address to sell you a nicer .CO.ZA domain for R300+, but what do domains really cost?

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In October 2010, Michael Mace predicted RIM’s demise in his excellent analysis, What’s Really Wrong With Blackberry. RIM’s decline in sales growth is another reason why the (highly profitable) Apple is undervalued…

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My new iPhone 4 is a beautiful harlot: it sparkles, connects to any WiFi hotspot and is impossible to type on. Forgiving the retarded iTunes, here’s why I would invest in Apple shares:

1. Ridiculously low P/E of 15.50
2. …

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Consider the following:

1. What if content from one company dominated Google’s search results?
2. What if this company provided all the videos, maps, places, weather and flight search results in search results?
3. What if this company was owned by Google? Wait. I’ll let you Google that.

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“…Domain names are 21st century real estate. ICANN runs all these virtual estate names on the interwebz, so you have to apply for a gTLD like .home or .coffee through them (dibs on .hustler).

All you need is a meager $185k application fee and $25k per year, granted no conflicting applications or disputes arise (like .xxx vs .sex). If, however, a dispute doth arise, thou shalt pay an adjudication fee on the order of $70k to $122k per hour. Yes folks, I ain’t talkin’ rich, I’m talkin’ wealthy [video]. This may upset the whole domain market, but I think otherwise…

…So the bankers under-priced LinkedIn’s IPO stock. This hasn’t stopped semi-tech company Groupon from filing their $20 billion IPO earlier today. Post-bubble cohorts like Farmville-maker Zynga and Facebook must be…

…Unfortunately tech stocks, like designer handbags, do not subscribe to mere mortal supply-and-demand economics, so don’t short your Farmville cash any time soon.”

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“B.J. was one of many fellow inmates with big plans for the future. He vowed that upon his release, he’d leave the dope game and fly straight. He’d recently purchased a porn website targeted at men with a fetish for women having sex on top of or inside luxury cars, with a special focus that explained his nickname. For just $10,000, he had purchased the domain name, the site design, and all of the necessary back-end work enabling financial transactions. The only component B.J. needed to supply were the women, and due to his incarceration, he’d named his 19-year-old son “vice president for personnel and talent development” and charged him with overseeing auditions. Who says a good old-fashioned family business can’t make it anymore?”

- read the rest of “An Unlikely Place to Nurture the Entrepreneurial Spirit? Jail.“, on Inc.com

“Training yourself to think unthinkable thoughts has advantages beyond the thoughts themselves…If you can think things so outside the box that they’d make people’s hair stand on end, you’ll have no trouble with the small trips outside the box that people call innovative.”

- read the rest of What Not To Say by Paul Graham.