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Ask Metafilter. It never lets me down. See my latest question and the fast responses. If you like asking and answering questions and learnin’ stuff, then Ask MeFi is the best site EVER! I’ve been hooked on it for a while now.
One of the best Boston mashups I’ve seen in a while. Although there are many others, if you’re interested.
So tired, but I forced my eyes to stay open long enough to post a few pictures from our trip to the new IKEA in Stoughton. $183 spent, and an unbelievable amount of extremely useful purchases made. We got full desk setups for both of us to have real work stations at home. Unreal.
IKEA Vlogging to follow as soon as I can get Aaron to convert the file from its weird format.
Lookit! Steve is famous! I said nice things about him.
Now if only he and Carol could stop by for my birthday dinner. 🙁
Hey Steve! Did you see that I vlogged?
I bought a Not For Tourists Guide to Boston before I moved here. I also bought a thousand other guide books, but the NFT book is the one I’ve ended up taking with me every time I go out. It just has the most helpful information. So last night, I was reading the NFT guide – just learning about my new city – and I noticed that they had a web site. And you know how I feel about web sites.
I went to this site just now, and it is excellent! Why? In addition to a free signup (which you may need to do to use the next links coming up) and many helpful links, they have the entire book online! I’m talking PDFs of every page in the latest version of the book. I have last year’s version of the book, and at first I’m thinking, "Hey! I don’t have to buy the new one at all. Suckers!"
But then I was thinking about how up-to-date all the information is on the new pages, and I was exploring all the cool stuff, and… I think I’m going to have to get myself the brand new one. I really can’t help myself.
I guess my point is twofold: (1) The NFT Guides are seriously handy to have with you, no matter what and (2) When you give stuff away for free, you’re not losing customers, you’re developing new relationships and gaining new customers. Why haven’t the big record execs missed this simple principle of business karma?
