What We Read This (Thanksgiving) Weekend

The Top Contact Management, Social Media, API, and Marketing Articles We Read This Weekend
Kipp Chambers

Author: Kipp Chambers

@lloyddobbler

When we’re not solving the world’s contact information problem or sleeping through a turkey-induced coma, we read a lot.

Here are some of the best articles we read this weekend:

Social Media/General Tech

11 Biggest Social Media Disasters of 2012

The Third Phase Of Social Marketing Is Upon Us: 5 Steps To Get Ahead

Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth

Social Media Isn’t Just For Your Customers – It’s For Your Employees, Too

Sales/Marketing

The Best Business Books Of 2012

Marketers: You Don’t Need ‘Big Data’ When Just a Little Data Will Do

How to Convert Blog Readers Into Customers

Do You Really Need to Say Thank You?

Startups/Denver

New Coding School Startup In Colorado Offers Money Back Guarantee

The Founder’s Lie About Comfort Zones

What Happens When Your Pivot Goes Horribly Wrong?

For Developers

Gaussian Distributions Form a Monoid

What are Some Advantages of Artificial Neural Networks Over Support Vector Machines?

Avoiding “the Stupid Hour”

Inter-Tab Communication Using Local Storage

Random

If Star Wars Characters Had Business Cards, They Would Look Like This

What The Wacky Sport Of Chessboxing Teaches You About Creativity

What are you reading?  Send us your recommendations!

  • Dan King

    My favorite Star Wars biz card is Luke Skywalker. A title of “Professional Hero” rocks.

    • http://www.fullcontact.com/ Kipp Chambers

      True story, Dan.

      The only thing I can think of that comes close is Wile E. Coyote’s business card, which reads “Genius by Trade.”

  • http://www.buildtracks.com/ Gregor – buildtracks.com

    Just out of interest – why does your “what we read this weekend” come out on a Wednesday or Thursday? (I like it btw, just asking).

    • http://www.fullcontact.com/ Kipp Chambers

      Thanks for the compliment, Gregor!

      The ‘What We Read This Weekend’ post *should* always come out on a Monday. Are you thinking of the Weekly Playbook (our email newsletter)? It normally comes out on a Wednesday (but sometimes varies, depending on holidays, etc).

      • http://www.buildtracks.com/ Gregor – buildtracks.com

        Hmmm I don’t know now! I use Google Reader, but always just get the feeling I end up seeing “what we…” towards the end of the week. Must be my mistake.

        • http://www.fullcontact.com/ Kipp Chambers

          Hmmm…that’s odd. I’ll take a look at our RSS and see if something strange is going on. Thanks for the feedback!