Don’t see Where the Wild Things Are – my review

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Terrible.  

Seriously, this surprised me.  You see I like movies.  A lot.  I can usually find something that I like about a movie.

Nope.  Not this time. 

I would not recommend this at all.  I usually rank movies as theater, dollar theater, redbox, or free.  But this time is DONT WATCH.

I found the plot non existant.  There was no moral lessons.  The pace dragged.  The dialogue dragged worse.  There were a couple of cute moments that made me smile, and even one or two that made me laugh but overall, the movie flopped.  I was worried about turning a 15 page children's book into a full length movie and it happened.  

Some critics call it an "honest look at childhood", or "refreshingly free from commodity film components" but I just call it weird.  You could argue it was art and it doesn't have to make sense but art is at least pleasing to look at.  The film location was dry and colorless.  Lots of shadows, dark branches and rocks.  The only cool thing was the technical achievement of making the monsters face portray emotion but one technical achievement doesn't carry a film. (unless your Avatar and your technical achievement is going to change film)
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Google is Not King (kind of)

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I had an Information System class where we covered search.  I thought oh great, I already know all these. The first one, Wolframalpha.  I already had tried it out and wasn't impressed.  I guess I wasn't asking the right questions.  I was very impressed by the results.  "Where am I?", "Internet users europe", and of course the standard math equations all are handled amazingly with Wolframalpha.  This is the first time, since I found out about Google in like 9th grade that I have been more impressed with another search engines answers.  Times are changing.  

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Google is Not King (kind of)

Screen_shot_2010-01-13_at_2

I had an Information System class where we covered search.  I thought oh great, I already know all these. The first one, Wolframalpha.  I already had tried it out and wasn't impressed.  I guess I wasn't asking the right questions.  I was very impressed by the results.  "Where am I?", "Internet users europe", and of course the standard math equations all are handled amazingly with Wolframalpha.  This is the first time, since I found out about Google in like 9th grade that I have been more impressed with another search engines answers.  Times are changing.  

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Unified Affiliate Program – VigLink

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One of the common complaints with affiliate programs is that it takes a lot of work.  Even if you are already linking to your favorite Amazon book, to benefit from that you need to sign up, be approved, install the link tracker etc.  

A new company named VigLink seeks to make this a lot easier.  They automatically scan your site for potential links and then automatically can set you up.  They maintain accounts with all of the major affiliate programs meaning you don't have to. 

They are pre-launch as of now, but you can still get a site report right now.  
Check them out at VigLink.com
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Google vs Dropbox

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You can now upload any file to your Google Docs.  I immediately thought of Dropbox and how their free backup service could be in Google Jeopardy.  But they are not.  Dropbox is so seamless with drag and drop installation and drag and drop functionality, the slightly clunky Google Docs uploader is just not the same.  One more reminder that companies need to be the best at what they do, because someone is going to start doing the same thing.  

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Google vs Dropbox

Screen_shot_2010-01-12_at_10

You can now upload any file to your Google Docs.  I immediately thought of Dropbox and how their free backup service could be in Google Jeopardy.  But they are not.  Dropbox is so seamless with drag and drop installation and drag and drop functionality, the slightly clunky Google Docs uploader is just not the same.  One more reminder that companies need to be the best at what they do, because someone is going to start doing the same thing.  

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I love this ad

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I think this is a great ad.  I actually enjoyed looking at it, and I ended up using Hootsuite, not entirely because of this ad, but maybe it helped.  

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