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Summation Push
Auren Hoffman's Summation Push for the
week of August 17, 1998
You can visit my thoughts and
reflections at http://www.summation.net or you can be lazy and wait for these
tidbits to be sent right to your in box (subscribe and unsubscribe
information is at the end of this e-mail).
This issue:
* Rumor: Hoffman is Correct about WhoWhere
* Fresh Breath at Big 5 Firms
* Translate This!
* Hoffman Spam Index
* Summation Push Picks Links
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Rumor: Hoffman is Correct about WhoWhere
I don't mean to gloat, but in the Summation Push on March 2 of this year, I
predicted WhoWhere being acquired by Lycos (http://www.summation.net/Push980302.html).
I think it was a huge win for Lycos -- WhoWhere is a great site and it adds
the missing components to Lycos's suite. Lycos is fast catching up to Excite
and Yahoo and in some ways I think they might have a better strategy.
(all rumors and insights sent to auren@summation.net will be kept
confidential)
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Fresh Breath at Big 5 Firms
For those of you who work at or with a Big Five accounting/consulting firm,
you might notice that their employees always have impeccable breath. It's
uncanny. I've done some investigative research and I found out more than I
bargained for: Big Five firms have a fresh breath addiction.
Big Five accounting firms are obsessed with fresh breath. You can't start a
meeting there without someone pulling out a box of Altoids and offering you
one. When you get offered a mint you think "is my breath that bad?"
Sometimes you get offered mints even when you are sitting on the other side
of the conference table -- which my deductive reasoning leads me to conclude
that Big Five accountants also have really good smell senses.
But the most powerful physical evidence of a Big Five fresh breath addiction
is in the bathroom. They've got mouthwash in their bathrooms! True story,
check it out for yourself. Investigative reports continues :) ...
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Translate This!
Check out Alta Vista's news translation service. It is free and there is a
link located off of Alta Vista's front page. You can translate from English
to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish -- and visa versa.
Translate "There is a party tomorrow and you are invited." To
Spanish and you get "Hay un partido mañana y le invitan."
Unfortunately, the service does not translate pronouns very well. I
translated "Summation Push is excellent. Everyone should
subscribe." To French and got "La poussée d'addition est
excellente. Chacun devrait souscrire." Even worse is when I translate
the translated statement back to English I get "The push of addition is
excellent. Each one should subscribe."
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THIS WEEK'S SUMMATION PUSH PICK LINKS:
* Alta Vista Translation (http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?)
- cool translation service on the web.
* WhoWhere - (http://www.whowhere.com) -- acquired by Lycos as predicted by
this column on March 2.
* Lycos - (http://www.lycos.com/) -- impressive search engine.
* Hoffman Reading List (http://www.summation.net/reading.html)
* The Hoffman Spam Index (http://www.summation.net/spam.html)
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