Link: HBS Working Knowledge Maximization does not work as a measure of success What is the right measure of success in your eyes? What is it for your company or school? Is being really successful inevitably a matter of being the best, highest, youngest, richest, smartest, and prettiest on every scale you know—that is, celebrity winner-take-all? Such standards are maximized forms of accomplishment. Simply put, maximization is any form of going for the extreme—genius intelligence, superhuman effort, the best house, the unique lifestyle, and the most profit possible.

Via Venture Blog : What are the costs involved in the Long tail businesses: 1. Search Costs :It is not enough for a company to aggregate lots of small things. Reducing search costs by matching content to users is critical for Long Tail businesses. 2. Psychic Costs:These measure the stress of having to think about a transaction.The psychic cost of stressing over your minutes outweighs the extra money paid for an unlimited package, so long as the total costs are fairly low.

Anthony says what made him succeed : I guess what I’m saying, is that it’s possibly just the person behind the business. Some people are born leaders, others are followers. I guess when followers attempt to become leaders, some succeed, some get by and some fail. A good leader will never truly fail, as if one approach doesn’t work, they will have another ready to use, and another and so on until adaptation is precise to succeed.

Yahoo, in its new service features has come up Domain Keys . Here’s how it works: There are two steps to signing an email with DomainKeys: Sending Servers Set up: The domain owner (typically the team running the email systems within a company or service provider) generates a public/private key pair to use for signing all outgoing messages (multiple key pairs are allowed). The public key is published in DNS, and the private key is made available to their DomainKey-enabled outbound email servers.

Look at this strange announcement in Ireland : Announcement in Ireland “Irish Archbishop Sean Brady recently declared that  TVs and mobile phones should be switched off one day each week to help preserve Irish society… [as] the incessant noise of modern life was threatening to tear society to pieces.  At a church service in County Kilkenny, Dr Brady said there needed to be a return to “a sound of silence”.