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What Does Ballot Mean | Your Articles

• Oct 23, 2010 from hemani010 in Gaming
  When a person votes in an election, he is said to cast a ballot. The ballot is a piece of paper on which are printed the names of all the candidates-that is, persons who want to be elected. The voter marks an X beside the name of each candidate he wants to vote for.

SOFT PLUG: Your Name and its Meaning v1.50.10

• Mar 26, 2009 from ultrium123(phanikiran)
  You can trace the origin of your name. Example: biblical, old english, anglo saxon, european, hebrew,latin, etc. It also gives information about the person who you are asking about. It also makes a nice frame for printing out your certificate. Perfect for cardmakers, or to give at a christening, or just to browse the names with your children.

Custom Printed T Shirts With Winter Holiday Designs

• Dec 19, 2009 from camillelozano(camille joyce lozano)
  Since the holidays mean preparing gifts for friends andloved ones, one of the best ideas for holiday gifts are custom printed t shirts.They are easy to make and quick to produce in large numbers. They can bepersonalized with names, dates and places custom printed on the t shirts.

The Way of the Dodo How to Sell 10,000 iPad Cases at $60 Each (and Others Lessons Learned)

• Jul 19, 2010 from timferriss in Lifestyle
  DODOcase, one of more than 1,000 businesses created in the last six months, has sold more than 10,000 units at $60 each.
  From todays New York Times coverage of the Shopify/4-Hour Workweek build-a-business competition that just ended:
  To encourage early, positive buzz among Apple iPad buyers, Mr. Dalton [of DODOcase] hired street teams via Craigslist to hang out with Apple fanboys, while they waited on line for hours, maybe even days, outside of Apple retail stores for a chance to buy the first edition iPad. The street teams, he said, hit Apple store locations in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
  DODOcase also scored favorable reviews with the tech blogs Engadget and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Some endorsements came unsolicited from high profile customers; on July 14, Evan Williams, chief executive of Twitter, posted a DODOcase endorsement on his Twitter feed: Got my Dodocase. Sweet.
  The company, which plans to continue manufacturing its product and creating jobs in San Francisco, received more than 10,000 orders within a few months of the iPads debut
  The DODOcase costs around $60, so you can do the math. Amazing.
  This post will cover how it all happened
  In December 2009, I published a post titled No More Excuses How to Make an Extra $100,000 in the Next 6 Months, announcing a $100,000+ bribe intended to solve a problem: inertia. Perhaps a better translation: temptation to remain in comfortable routine.
  The Shopify build-a-business competition was a financial carrot for anyone whod dreamed of starting a business but hadnt taken the jump. Each person had six months to build a business, and their two highest-grossing consecutive months would be matched against everyone else.
  The competition just ended on June 30th. So what happened?
  This post will cover the overall results and focus on the winners: their lessons learned, marketing tipping points, mistakes, and much more. First, some stats:
  Revenue PER HOUR for the duration of the contest (180 days): $696.38
  Total number of people competing: 1,819
  Total number of orders placed: 66,503
  Below is a sweet infographic that shows some of the highlights and a few other fun numbers (full-size here):
  
  Click here for a gorgeous full-size view.
  The Prize Winners and Analysis of Successes
  I use the term prize winners because more than 500 viable businesses were created by you all, and I consider all of you winners (including those who participated but didnt get this first attempt quite right).
  For prize winners, here are the category and overall winners:
  $5,000 Top Apparel Store: Nashville Flood Tees (www.nashvillefloodtees.com)
  $5,000 Top Digital Good: Buy Mafia (www.buymafia.com)
  $5,000 Top Miscellaneous: Grove (www.grovemade.com)
  $5,000 Top Electronics Store: Vaporizers.com (www.vaporizers.com)
  $100,000 Overall Top Store: DODOCase (www.dodocase.com)
  In that order, I asked all of them the following questions:
  1) How did you decide on your product? What ideas did you consider but reject, and why?
  2) What were some of the main tipping points (if any) or a-ha moments? How did the tipping points happen?
  3) What were your biggest mistakes, or biggest wastes of time/money?
  4) Key manufacturing and marketing lessons learned?
  5) If you were to do it all over again, what would you do differently?
  6) Whats next?
  Here are their answers.
  Lessons Learned: From Manufacturing to Marketing
  NASHVILLE FLOOD TEES
  Nashville Flood Tees is a group of artists and designers utilizing their talents to help the victims of the recent flooding in Nashville and the Middle TN area. We sell T-shirts for adults and children, with all of the profits going towards local charities.
  Nashville Flood Tees was the brainchild of graphic designer Susannah Parrish, of texaSUS design, who posted 2 tshirt designs on Facebook. What was intended to be a modest project, turned into a viral marketing explosion- over 25,000 Facebook fans amassed within two days.
  As it became clear this couldnt be just a couple hundred tshirts printed in her basement, Susannah teamed up with Josh and Bethany Newman of ST8MNT design, a graphic design firm, to create an online store and additional designs. Josh and Bethany were able to get a Shopify store up and running within 2 days.
  Render Apparel, a custom apparel company, joined the team to produce the product. The online store sold 800 shirts the first hour it went live. Its been estimated that over $200,000 has been raised for the charities, of which $120,000 that has already been given to the charities.
  1) How did you decide on your product? What ideas did you consider but reject, and why?
  
  T-shirts seemed to be the perfect mix of raising money, as well as promoting the cause in the marketplace and giving the consumer sense if empowerment and ownership.
  2) What were some of the main tipping points (if any) or a-ha moments? How did the tipping points happen?
  
  The tipping point was Facebook. There are now 36,970 fans. Google stats show online...

The Origin of Twitters Fail Whale

• Aug 02, 2010 from mashable(Mashable) in Technology
  If youve been on Twitter in the past month, youve probably bumped into the Fail Whale once or twice. The popular social network has been crashing pretty consistently from an influx of tweets and traffic. Seeing the whale, you (like everyone else) might have been frustrated you might have yelled at the screen. You might hate that whale.If you do, chances are you dont know Yiying Lu or the story behind the Fail Whale, originally called Lifting a Dreamer. The whale (first drawn as an elephant) was created by Lu as a sweet greeting to her friends overseas. The minds at Twitter found it on iStockphoto and used the image as a 404 page (replacing a picture of a LOLcat).The whale, once an image of Lus well-wishes, was supposed to represent the Twitter teams effort to fix problems of scalability. Instead, the associations have largely been negative. Lu is hoping to turn that around even as she begrudgingly calls herself the Fail Whale designer.Hate it or love it, Lu got on the phone with us to chat about her early artistic influences, her new collection of animal designs, announced exclusively on Mashable, and why she hates the term Fail Whale. Lifting a DreamerQ: How did you get into graphic design? Was it something you always loved?Lu: I suppose its one of those things you find yourself more good at artistic things, like drawings and shapes and color I didnt know that I was an artistic kid until I went to [a] technology high school and Im like, Oh my God, everyone is so good at math and Im pretty shit! I was sort of self-taught in high school times. I would spend two hours or three hours every day just sort of browsing all these artistic books like Salvador Dali and Ren Magritte I didnt even know I was learning it. I just though it was one of those, Its like youre eating main meals but you thought it was a snack.Q: How did that experience inspire your personal style?Lu: If I wasnt trained in the tech high school I probably wouldnt be as confident to use all these new technologies, and all these new websites and all these new things, really. You wouldnt be able to have the guts to try it and that was particularly interesting and insightful.Q: Do you still draw by hand or is it all on the computer?Lu: I think the beauty of it is that I have all these hand drawn illustrations still here, but then technology enables me to scan them in and put them online to share with more people. I guess its a whole experience a combination of technology and organic processes that I truly appreciate.Q:You posted the Fail Whale image on iStockphoto. Did it end up anywhere else?Lu: Oh yeah, I only put it on iStock at the time. I was sort of using it as a showcase because I didnt have a website at the time.Q: For you, is the image still Lifting a Dreamer even though everyone calls it the Fail Whale?Lu: I mean, that thing really bothers me and I really wanted to be very honest and transparent to you because I hate the name Fail Whale. Really, I do hate it Im like, Its not a Fail Whale, its like, originally, just a message for my friends far away and it has absolutely nothing to do with failure. The original icon and symbolism was originally about good wishes and happy thoughts, and thats what this image is all about. And I guess thats why people really love it.Q: Are you more frustrated by how Twitter has used the image, or how its been publicly named?Lu: Its really just about how people interpret the picture. Rather than people seeing the picture as a sign of technologys failure, they should see it as a sign of, you know, sit back and relax. You know theres a problem, but at the same time, enjoy the time being. It should be a visual soother, like, it should be a visual therapy rather than something that people would get really mad [about]. Sometimes you will see some tweets [that] go Fuck the Fail Whale! and I just go No, it had nothing to do with the whale!Q: Have you been able to make any money from the image?Lu: Yes, I do have a merchandise website. I am selling some t-shirts and its really great that now there are more opportunities from other people. People start to negotiate and talk to me about licensing possibilities. Its just good to find all these good people to work with. I think the whale image actually enabled a lot of opportunity for connecting with the right people in a lot of different areas.Q: How are you trying to reclaim the image to turn it from something negative to something positive? Is it just the fail whale forever now?Lu: Again, its something Id leave to the public to decide because originally the name of the fail whale was a meme and it came out from the public. I really appreciate the fact that people started to dig out their own creativity by interacting with the original image. So, I guess I dont want to force anything. I just want to see the organic process and just sort of let it sprout as it should be.Q: Has it opened doors or pigeonholed you into one design style?Lu: It has been really...