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ONLY ONE STORY TODAY Facebook raises $16B in IPO NYT LiveBlog: Facebook IPO For small investors, long odds on a big payoff Zuck rings the opening bell Chart: FB IPO in context of other big tech IPOs

MAJOR COMPANIES Mad Ave skeptical of Facebook ads Twitter implements Do Not Track option START UPS Pinterest does a $100M raise at a … wait for it… $1.5B valuation! Big data co Palantir raises $56M Read the profile of interactive ebook creator/publisher Moglue Read about Game Salad, a start-up that is altering the face of programming! AGENCIES AND BRANDS Nice in depth piece from USA Today: How social media is reinventing how business i [...]

Your career success is part ability, part luck, and part how you behave. No one does everything right every time. But the demands of the day, our own natures, and our environments can cultivate bad habits that ultimately limit personal success. This piece isn't about the "gimmes" of career limiting moves. Getting sloshed at the Christmas party and coming on to the president's husband -- I assume we don't need to go through that stuff. This is about small bad decisions that become habit [...]

Nido Qubein, who wrote my introduction to Customize Your Career, SAID:  “If you want to have success and significance—in business and in life—choose to be a person of value” . . . Nido equates value with personal power. The first and most important thing to remember when it comes to being remarkable is that it [...]

May I say that for this Hibernophile it gets no better than flashmob + Irish dancing as a publicity stunt for Tourism Ireland. There are two vids here. The first is the classic flashmob approach. Lovely. The second is an AR program in which people are joined by real and imaginary Irish dancers. I think the partcipant comment that says it all is "I wanted to be beamed straight to Ireland." For those that don't know, the Irish economy is in the pooper. Horrible problems, thousands of empty h [...]