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Haha.. featuring T-Pain!

Be a RAT.

There is a nice writeup on Gary doing a book signing in Austin over at hooversbiz.com. The post has a much better rundown of the RAT philosophy:

His deepest message, though, was about the necessity of being “RAT” — Real, Authentic, and Transparent — which he sees as an absolute necessity in the era of pervasive social media, when secrets are much harder to hide.

Before the event, someone on the Grape Vine Market staff had asked him if he would be disappointed with a thin turnout; he answered that he would have been grateful to have one person show up to talk to him. He calls his approach “Expectation Zero,” and said, “This Expectation Zero game is amazing — you’ll love it” because it removes the likelihood you’ll be disappointed.

That is the essence of social media and crowdsourcing today. People want the real story, from real people, and told in an honest fashion. Essentially this means you will not succeed unless you can operate in this space. The Diggnation video podcasts are a good example of this (Kevin Rose is also a friend of Gary’s) where the owner of Digg runs a show in a totally RAT manner and thus gains a dedicated following, digg.com customers, and a whole lot of social capital as well.

Follow Gary on Twitter: @garyvee

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The classic net neutrality diagram for those too lazy to watch:

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Work from 9 to 5 on a typical day
From 5 to 9 is when I start to play
Without hesitation, head to my station
Pull up my homepage, give into temptation
Crap loada invitations

BLAM

There’s a poop loada notifications
I got females across 50 states
Who I monitor frequently by their status updates

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We did this one day during work hours, while drinking. We are a company called Revision3 and were inspired by a company called Connected Ventures. And we kind of rock. Hard. BRING IT!!

I hate those guys. (OK, Jealous.)

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A comment on the video reminds us that this video necessitates the importance of building EMP grenades when we are overtaken by robot overlords. Luckily the internet has all the knowledge we need on explosively pumped flux compression generators.

The date marking the end of prehistory, that is the date when written historical records become a useful academic resource, varies from region to region. In Egypt it is generally accepted that prehistory ended around 3200 BC whereas in New Guinea the end of the prehistoric era is set much more recently, 1900.

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I did find a super video about Twitter, why it’s useful, and it’s role in social relationships and interactions. I got the video from jasonbutler42 and hist post made me go find my first tweet (April 08, 2007 @ 8:15 PM) almost one year ago!

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