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We were told we were very rich (and f that)

There's one scientific study "where they give two groups of kids relatively easy math problems. The first group they tell "wow, you must be really smart to complete all those!", the second group they tell "wow, you must have worked really hard to complete all those!". They then give them another set of problems far above their skill level. The second group of kids, the 'hard-workers', work much longer at the problems before giving up on them. And when both groups are given another set of relatively easy problems, the first group's performance takes a nosedive." (via hegemonicon on HN).

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Launching Barcamp Saigon 2009 Logo Design Contest

Following the success of Barcamp Saigon 2008, we've been working on the second release of the event, which is slated for December 13th (tentative). With a view to encouraging further participation from the community, we're pleased to announce the Barcamp Saigon 2009 Logo Design Contest.

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Fishing and Mapping

Well for one thing, social media is so different from traditional marketing in that it takes a lot of time, it's incremental. It's neither about blockbusters nor serial killing ads on da TV. It's about building up the conversation and "keep posting". Or fishing. With or without a hook. When you have something interesting to say, they will come to you. You probably won't have to wait until you're 80 like our man. But don't expect success to come early.

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1216…

is the number of people who have completed our survey, which is based on Forrester's Social Technographics, which classifies consumers into six overlapping levels of participation (creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, and inactives). As of this writing.

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Facebook: the return of the Sith

The old design of Facebook has come back with more bells and whistles. But I'm trying to refrain myself from giving any opinion of these changes now but will come back in a few weeks when data are available for analysis. For the time being, I've switched to the Live feed option.

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December 6th or 13th? Vote for your date of choice for Barcamp Saigon 2009!

Barcamp Saigon is on it’s way, but we still need to figure out the date. We had November 29th before, but the venue is not available at that date. So we know checking either December 6th or December 13th. We want to confirm the date in the next two dates.

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Is this confusing?

From the Linkhay’s homepage: If I navigate to “Tin mới” [New News], and choose Technology, I get newly submitted Tech news. If I navigate to Technology, and choose “Tin mới”, I get general submitted links instead of Tech ones. It’s weird. Can you guys fix it?

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Twitter or not Mimo?

Haven't we had enough local microblogging services? And what sort of difference does Mino bring if cheap SMS message is the only difference from the others? Maybe, just maybe, this can help them push more users to the platform, but it might take them at least two years to grow like Twitter used to. Because it looks exactly like Twitter on first look. How much percentage does 5mil users account for in the total Internet population? And how much would that be for the Vietnamese market? Plus, what's the point for the English interface anyway?

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Facebook’s redesign of Event Management is fantastic!

Event managers can invite people from past events. This is the most impressive improvement. As someone who's creating periodical events, this change makes my life a lot easier. No need to pick up guests from a list of 1000 friends any more!

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Facebook: how to convert Friends to Fans?

Now, the question is: what are you gonna do about it? How do you convert your "company's friends" to loyal fans? Yesterday a friend called me asking this very question and I wasn't able to come up with an immediate answer. So here it is.

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