Ζappos Pays New Employees to Quit

Why? Because if you’re willing to take the company up on the offer, you obviously don’t have the sense of commitment they are looking for.

Είχα ξαναγράψει για την εταιρεία αναφερόμενος στο απαράμιλλο customer service της.

The company expects to generate sales of more than $1 billion this year, up from just $70 million five years ago.

To the surprise of no-one. [via] √ May 20th, 2008

Recognizing greatness

Katy Perry on Leona Lewis (& a reference to Max Martin — for those who may not know: it’s embarassing how huge a fan of Max Martin I am):

Like I said earlier, labels aren’t giving out the pennies like they used to BUT I do know that Simon Cowell not only gave her a RIDICK amount of cash to sign her but also bought her a BIG ASS HOUSE here in the states as a bonus. Not only that… Track two off her debut album, ”I Will Be” is a song I have known for a while… even before Leona… why, do you ask? Cause there’s a set of certain producers that wrote this song that brings me to tears. Dr. Luke and Max Martin.

And on record labels:

I was on Columbia with One Republic too when they decided to can BOTH of our records. Oops. Mistake one… and mistake two (knock on wood) , Columbia.

√ Apr 19th, 2008

Simple English Wikipedia

This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. […] We only use very simple English words and simple ways of writing here.

√ Apr 16th, 2008

Περίεργα πράματα...

Πρόσφατα είχα την τύχη να ταξιδέψω στις δύο από τις τρεις βαλτικές χώρες, τη Λιθουανία και τη Λετονία. Πιο συγκεκριμένα επισκέφθηκα τις πρωτεύουσες αυτών των δύο χωρών, το Βίλνιους και τη Ρίγα, αντίστοιχα. Παραθέτω μερικές εντυπώσεις, όχι τόσο ταξιδιωτικές, όσο πολιτισμικές.

√ Apr 14th, 2008