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Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News - FORTUNE on CNNMoney What is a magazine app? Fortune brings a new perspective to the iPad. MANosterone | Men's Man Mag by Men for Men about Men with Men...Men Only! The Brands That Survive Will Be The Brands That Make Life Better We interact with brands almost every moment of our day. From the moment we wake up, we’re being bombarded with logos, advertisements, and products, all designed to make our lives easier but also to make us feel a connection to companies. But most of that work is totally meaningless: most people don’t care about brands, and think that only a few positively impact their lives. More importantly, brands that are perceived as irresponsible or just creating products with no meaning are in danger of being severely punished by consumers. The state of brands and how they affect well-being was measured by media consultancy Havas Media. The most tangible outcome of this is that the Meaningful Brands survey--which spoke to 50,000 consumers in France, Spain, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, China, Japan, India, and the U.S. What’s the trick to making a brand meaningful? Haque cites Nike+ as a prime example.

thesource.com: Follow Us @thesourcemag Royal Pingdom ? The blog platforms of choice among the top 100 blogs Posted in Tech blog on January 15th, 2009 by Pingdom We all know that WordPress is popular among bloggers, and Movable Type as well. But HOW popular? As a by-product we also found out some interesting things about the more popular blog networks. When you read this article, you might want to keep in mind that we have chosen to make a distinction between blogging services and self-hosted blog software. By blogging services we mean services like Typepad, WordPress.com and Blogger, where a third-party service is handling the blog software and hosting for you.By blog software we mean the software you use when you set up and host the platform yourself (using WordPress, Movable Type, etc). Now let’s get on to the data. Overall blog platform statistics – the lowdown Before we dive into details further down, here is a diagram so you can get a quick overview of which blog platforms (and CMS) are the most popular among the top 100 blogs. Blog software (self-hosted) Blogging services Blog networks

Don't Think Different, Think About Different Things - Art Markman by Art Markman | 11:56 AM January 11, 2012 This post is about innovation. But before we get started, imagine the produce area in your local supermarket. Were you able to do it? That seems like a strange question to ask. Of course you could. Now back to innovation. When you need to solve a problem in a new way, you have two options. As I just showed you, pulling information from memory happens effortlessly. To get a sense of what I mean, consider James Dyson. Instead, Dyson realized a vacuum takes in a combination of dust and air and needs to separate the dust from the air. To solve the problem, Dyson focused on its essence. You might immediately think, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Now, think about the core meaning of the first proverb. It turns out that if you practice finding the meanings of proverbs, you can get better at finding the same kind of essential definitions of problems you are trying to solve.

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