I haven’t read this book yet, for sure I will try to do so.
Required reading for anyone trying to understand how disruptive the internet has been to businesses, and how Google has ridden that disruptive wave, as well as having churned it up. Danny Sullivan
Some urls that may be interesting to check before you want to go and buy the book:
The world is so fucked up. All kinds of things are happening meanwhile you enjoy your ice cream under the sun form your “first world” city. But one thing is quite clear, some people is moving and doing things to show the others what is going on in places all over the world. This time director’s Alberto Arce & Mohammad Rujailah (the fixer) have created a documentary that will tell a lot. The film can be seen completely online so if you wanna learn more about what is going on at the Gaza Strip go to their website.
“Gaza Strip has been under siege since June 2007, when Israel declared it an “enemy entity”. A group of international activists organized a siege-breaking movement, the Free Gaza movement. Thanks to their efforts, and despite the Israeli ban on foreign correspondents and humanitarian aid workers to cover and witness operation “Cast Lead” on the ground, a group of international volunteers: self organised members of the International Solidarity Movement were present in Gaza when the bombing started on December, 27th 2009. Together with two international correspondents from Al Jazeera International (Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros), they were the only foreigners who managed to write, film and report for several radio stations what was happening inside the besieged Palestinian strip.
This book remarks definitely the reality that some of us are living day after day. Flexible determined individuals that work for the love of their craft and do not care about the system. For those who do not know about 37signals.com, this guys have created for an example Ruby on Rail, an open sourced computer programing language that empowers much of today 2.0 world. Also they have created tools such as Basecamp, a project management tool that is generating millions of dollars in profits and few other great applications. Go get the book and start today to change the way you work and think about business. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own.
If you don’t know this you must go and discover it. As the endless river of data goes unstoppable great projects pass by. I have directly copied their description so you can either read it and get to understand what is this or go straight forward to their site!
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