If you are interested in topics like branding, usability, if you don’t know what afinity and dispositional branding are then I highly recommend you to watch the presentation of usability and branding expert Jared Spool from UIE titled Strike Up The Brand: How to Design for Branding. He had this presentation on Google Tech Talks.

Click here for the video.

Ryan Carson, a well-known web developer, founder of Carson Systems, DropSend service, Think Vitamin and writer on very popular Signal vs. Noise blog says that there are two types of people in the world: Builder & Doers and Whiners & Trolls.

Click here to find out his views on these two types of people in his interesting article.

Marko Bijelic posted an interesting link on Serbian DevProTalk forum. It is a quiz that tests your EQ (entrepreneurial quotient). Guy Kawasaki, well-known writer and investor, compiled those questions.

Quiz is interesting but I disagree with some answers.

Click here for the quiz.

Fortune released interesting articles about work habits of famous business people. So you can find out that Marissa Mayer, Google VP for Search Products and User Experience use Gmail only for her personal emails. She don’t use it for business emails because she said that she gets 700-800 emails per day so she needs something really fast. Some people like Bill Gross, Chief Investment Officer at Pimco said he gets up at around 4.30 AM to check out the markets.

Here is the link.

10. Your kids still believe the Googlebot is bringing the Christmas presents.
9. Your reply to “How are you” is “I’m feeling lucky”, combined with a clicking gesture.
8. You shout at the librarian when she takes more than 0.1 seconds to find your book.
7. You just lost a case in court to name your newborn son “Google”.
6. You think of Google as your second-best friend, but lately consider it to get into first position.
5. Your Google shirt is losing color.
4. When people talk to you, you try to optimize their keywords.
3. Your last three Sunday family trips have been to the Googleplex.
2. You are convinced “What’s your PageRank?” is a good pick-up line.

And the number one sign you are addicted to Google:
1. You are completely clueless without a computer.