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Wednesday, May 22. 2013Amazon and Fan Fiction - the Rights stuff
This is a very interesting development - TechCrunch
Kindle Worlds will initially just have the licenses to the Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and the Vampire Diaries book series. The Mary Sue asks all the questions that occurred to me, so allow me to praise by copying it:
Finding a way for aspiring authors to not just write fan fiction, but build a reputation by siting them in existing (well read and loved) worlds. This interests me because its an early sign of how content rights are being rationally restructured for the digital world. Easy to do, low cost - Ronald Coase would be nodding, saying "I told ya" I just pray they never get the rights to Middle Earth.... Tuesday, May 21. 2013Social Business Reimagined as a Coasian ConstructSoundbite video from the Business Reimagined session last week, I used the term "Coasian construct" for Social Business, thought it may need a bit of background. Firstly the Coasian bit - that is referring to Ronald Coase, a 1930's economist, and his thesis on transaction costs. Wikipedia sums it up perfectly:
I've put the last line in italics. To explain a bit of history, I started looking at the impact of information flows on business in the mid 1980's for my MSc, and that's when I came across Coase and transaction costs, and it became clear to me that the Internet (as it came to be called, it wasn't called that in 1985 when I started playing with "wide area networks") was going to have a massive impact on business transaction costs. Researching back, it became clear that the main impact of all communication revolutions in the past had been to reduce transaction costs, and once that became clear it was possible to predict the impact of the Internet far more closely, so for example the arrival of things like Amazon, eBay etc ("Silicon Soukhs", as we called them in the early 90's before the dotcoms existed) were entirely predictable. Secondly, the Construct bit. Now we are seeing the next jump forward in Comms technology, Social Networking. We started looking at their impact on business seriously in 2005 when we founded Broadsight, as we could see what the rise of blogging, wikis etc, and what better webtools would do to Web 1.0 technologies like groupware (If anyone would like our classic 2005 paper, "Everyone is a communication business now" email me now ). It was clear that what they would do would be to have another major impact on another layer of transaction costs, that between individuals both in any enyerprise and in the value chain, ie it would go down to the person to person messaging level. Previously the major impacts here had been the telephone and email, this would take the costs down another order of magnitude. That was also why Twitter was so interesting when it emerged, as although we had great fun laughing at the "what I had for lunch" tweeters, the bigger point was that the transaction costs had reduced to the level you would say this over an electronic medium. In essence, what this means is that with Social Media the whole enterprise can, (in theory - see below), start to resemble the buzz of conversation around a small company's workspace, even if it is larger, geographically, and even temporally dispersed. This buzz is the stuff that makes businesses hum, that ensures many little things "go right" and its why businesses that get above a certain size they start to become much less efficient ("decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function", including increasing overhead costs and increasing propensity for an overwhelmed manager to make mistakes in resource allocation, as Coase would have it). Furthermore, Social Media is continuing outside the enterprise, so in theory the buzz of your potential customers, suppliers, competitors and existing users are also all in the room with you. The business efficiencies that are theoretically possible from this are immense. Just imagine all the little inefficiencies you see in your company, and in those you transact with, and imagine a major reduction in that. It would be a massive change in efficiency for any enterprise. But, what still has to be controlled is data and message overload - that is what has killed email's usefulness, the lower transaction costs of writing and sending an email has not been matched with a similar reduction in the cost of reading and acting on the message - and it wil kill social media in an enterprise if it is not managed better than email. The term "Big Data" to me is an admission of failure, its occurring because we have not yet worked out how to target what we are looking for. The major risk in social business is drowning in data, and that will be the big challenge for social business systems. Monday, May 20. 2013Tumblr'ing Down
Hot on the heels of the wisdom (or not) of acquiring Summly, Yahoo has now apparently also acquired Tumblr for $1.1bn. Tumblr, for those of you who don't know, is somewhere between a a blog and a microblog (a Mediblog), has revenues of $13m. So why pay $1.1 bn? The argument is the user numbers - Next Web:
With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent on site each month. So lets value it the old, boring way: 300 million x 12 = 3.6 billion unique visits (not necessarily different visitors of course) and 120,000 new ones a day x 360 days = c 43m new users per annum, the hope no doubt being that this will continue to grow like topsy. Lets assume that this growth gives c 1 billion users in 5 years, so we get a 50% increase PA on 50m new users, and assume we lose none, and that gives a Net Present Value of about $ 0.33 margin (at 15% IRR) to get to c $1.1 bn fully discounted free cash flow. Or thereabouts.....we can also do it another way - by comparison: Another Mediblog, Facebook, has an Average Revenue per user is about $1.25, and it's user base is about 1.1 billion and slowing. It is valued at $60bn in an open market. Applying Facebook's valuation to Tumblr today, with c 1/2 the user base gives us $60 bn x 1/2 user base x (0.03/1.25) ARPU = $0.75bn. Throw in a 33% uplift fir future optimism, and there's your $1.1bn So you can believe on of two things: (i) The Bubbletime will continue after Yahoo's acquisition, and the business will stay as good as Facebook is now, or But of course you can - or Yahoo thinks so anyway, heck they even paid with cash, not shares! Alternatively, one could take the opening line from Cockney Rebel's "Tumbling Down" anthem.
The refrain of which is Oh dear, look what they've done to the blues, blues, blues..... Friday, May 17. 2013The Evolution of Online PsychologyImplicit relationships people seek from products (source: Simon White, Draftcb) Last week I attended another event i think was very useful seminal in pushing Social Media forward, the ChinwagPsych event, which reviewed the emerging lessons from the emerging fields of digital psychology and anthropology. It was really good as well because the amount signal was high, and the amount of noise from snake oil, bullshit and hype was low. Here are some notes of mine from the event. Nathalie Nahan, who wrote Webs of Influence, on Website design in the Social era. - Trussst is what stops people buying online, as customer service/delicvery etc is unclear. Consumer reviews are good at creating trust, also earned media. Using recognised logos eg paypal also helps Leigh Caldwell, Inon - Psychology of Pricing - This is an emerging new field - cognitive economics Simon White, Draft Cb - Why are people NOT using all this stuff? - Old models (persuasion) only lead to accidental success as 95% of decisions are instinctive, not rational/ logical The new thing I got from Simon's talk was this: - People buy things to achieve goals, they do not have a "relationship" with brands as such. And their real goals are the implicit goals, eg buy Mercedes to feel powerful Simon Hill, Wazoku - Open Innovation - A rereshingly free-from-hype talk about the reality of Open Innovation. - technology is not the issue in Innovation I then had to go to a client meeting, so missed a few talks and lunch (boo), returning in time to catch: Steven Haggard & David Stillwell, Cambridge Predictive I first heard about them awhile ago when they started to put together patterns of connected likes, on Facebook, they mentioned some typical insights e.g. people who like Terry Pratchett and computing tend to be introverted and Likes on Facebook can tell relationship status (I'll bet!!). They started to look at Business Applications, for CRM, trying to find predictive qualities of personality for honing the Marketing message; keywords, behaviour types etc. They mentioned as an example the Relentless fizzy "energy" drink going up against Red Bull etc: - Its roots were in music roots so they started look at interconnections there Cat Jones, Unruly Media - Viral Video Chart - built Unruly Sharerank algorithm by testing large no of hypotheses of what drives sharing vs actual sharing Milward Brown (Similar findings to Simon White, above) - The only people who were shocked by behavioural economics were economists (rational man) What was new is they have tested a number of these new approaches against Ads - Most useful method they have found is facial response, map facial The next 2 talks were about Smart work, and were interesting in that they seem to apply a "psych" layer to the Quantified Self movement Design by Day (Book on smart work) Nokia/Anthony Mayfield - using mobile technology to improve productivity Prof Karen Pine - "Do something different" - Use technology to remind you to do something different that is good for you, force behavioural flexibility Benjamin Ellis, Social Optic - how to use technology to change larger groups - uses social data to drive changes in organisations Daniel Bennett & Marina Clement, Ogilvy Change: Case study - the missing £2 - Rory Sutherland started behavioural economic arm, heavy usage of outside academics. Case study was that people are stopping buying newspapers, so how do we sell them again. Approaches were Those 4 "nudges" hit 257% ROI, I asked which ones had the most impact, they said they didn't know. I find that hard to believe Fascinating and worrying in equal measures..... Thursday, May 9. 2013Applying Social Media to BusinessBroadsight Simplified Value Creation Flowchart We have been asked to be on the Microsoft Business Re-Imagined panel on the 15th of May, looking at the potential impact of Social Media in business. We've been consulting to and building social media systems for clients since 2005, and it seemed like this was a good time to boil down our experience down. Above is a simple value creation flowchart, and we look at how, in our experience, social media can impact value creation. Stripped to it's bare bones, a business creates sustainable value by increasing revenues and/or reducing costs. Social Media is a new set of technologies that can help in a number of ways. Revenue Increase Essentially, there are only 2 ways of increasing revenue, which is sell more stuff, or increase the price at current volumes. In my view, Social Media is more powerful (with current technology, anyway) in dealing with Consumer sales, rather than Business sales, as the main cost in a consumer sale is reaching the large mass of disparate consumers. With business sales the target market is much easier to identify, and there are less customers to contact so current approaches work well. Sell More - Social Media is a potentially very powerful tool to generate new demand - to find new customers, to bring them to the enterprise, create trust, ease their purchasing journey, and help optimise website design to maximise sales throughput. Taking it to greater extremes, Social Media data can be used to start to psychologically profile your customer base to understand what sort of people may also be your customers. It is also a very powerful tool to optimise the product - to discover the features or configurations that customers really value, and you can identify what competitors do well and include those in your product. But it is not a substitute for existing methods today, it is an adjunct, it can't be the only tool. It is not an appropriate tool for overt "hard sell" marketing, for example. Increase ARPU (Average Revenue Per Unit) - Social Media has two main functions here - to aid in communicating the value proposition of the product, and to improve the perceived value vs competitive offerings. Communicating the value is fairly straightforward, as it serves as an extension of traditional channels, with the added benefit is that it has a strong feedback loop so it is quickly possible to see what is working and what is not. It is also probably better at communicating implicit values than more traditional media. Social Media can also help to improve the pricing point by optimising product differentiation amomg dofferent customer groups, and find pricing points for these different customer groups. That feedback loop, and the data it drives, can be used to to find attractive product combinations, and to optimise the website design to maximise value per sale. Taking it to greater extremes, Social Media data can be used to start to psychologically profile your customer base to understand their hot buttons better Cost Decrease Again, essentially there are only 2 ways to reduce costs - reduce operating expenses (Opex) and reduce Churn (Customer defection). I will ignore Capital expenditure (Capex) for now. Social Media in my view is as useful in both consumer and business facing enterprises, as it's power is about increasing productivity and effectiveness in reducing costs Reducing Opex - In most companies, there are two major cost areas - raw materials and labour, the sum of them is typically the "80/20" of the cost pie (companies with near zero raw material costs tend to be professional service businesess, with very high labour costs). So far in or experience the two major Social media impacts are from: (i) getting better market information (both pre and after sales) from customer to company, allowing the company to both reduce costs or lead times of raw material while not reducing value, and being able to better place its human resources where it really matters - it can work like a real time value engineering approach. It's not just useful for line operations, social media can be used to influence better design and innovation, and can be used to increase "brain cycle cpacity" by tapping into customers and the overall milieu without having to employ it (ii) getting a better flow of information between people in the company, so co-ordination is better (less balls are dropped because A didn't know what B knew about customer X) and spped of reaction is faster. The third cost element, overheads, is interesting. I have some thoughts about using Social Media transaction data to better allocate some overheads, but I don't have a fully formed set of ideas and I haven't seen it put into practice anywhere yet. Reducing Churn/Increasing Retention Churn is often not well understood, as many businesses are not aware of the huge differences in cost between retaining an existing customer, and finding a new one. There is often an order of magnitude difference. Thus reducing churn can have a massive impact in cost reduction and revenue increase Social Media can be used to aid customer service, to serve as an early warning for customer problems, to find out what people really value in post sales service, and to improve the product lifecycle. Social media also means bad service is more likely to leave a company's reputation punished, which can also impact sales, as customers typically research online before buying. In saturated industries, having a better churn than the competition can radically alter the market share and strategic positions within a few business cycles. A brief word on Capex costs - if Social media is helping a busines to make better use of existing assets, in theory it will slow down future Capex requirements - but Social Media technologies do have Opex and Capex costs of their own, and these are typically incurred early up, while the benefits are then gained over a series of cycles. Which brings us to the dreaded Return on Investment (RoI) question. Return on Investment For any new technology, ROI is hard to work out, as few case studies exist to allow calibration of cost and benefit. If history is any guide, new and risky ideas are typically implemented first where forces are greater than a pure ROI worry: - Piloting: trying out the New new thing in some areas of the business, somethimes structurally, often though by "Intrapreneurs" who do it locally out of passion, or seeking promotion etc. But eventually, for Social Media to take off and scale, believable ROI needs to exist. We are dubious of some of the various "Returns on" currently touted for Social Media, as it is hard to tell which are valid proxies for hard to measure benefits, and which are just Snake Oil. Our test is that if a proxy measure cannot be linked to an underpinning economic benefit logically, its more likely than not to be snake oil. Other Impacts So far we have seen 3 meta-impacts of Social Media occurring Firstly, there is a synergy when multiple of the above areas are pursued. The marketing listening systems can influence the customer satisfaction and product design systems, the customer satisfaction system can improve the marketing message, better staff co-ordination can improve customer service and salesforce knowledge and thus effectiveness. In general as more information flows in a business, better decisions are made throughout the business. But its not a given - if organisation culture is not open, if individual reward structures do not encourage sharing, if management use the new dataflows to further expolit staff, these systems can go nowhere, even potentially accelerate problems as they are just better ways of making sure all the sh*t hits the fan. Secondly, the same influencing ability that works on attracting potential customers can influence sentiment, and thus share price. But this has always been a temporary game in the past, and its unlikley Social media will be any better at selling the sizzle if there is ultimately no beef. Thirdly, expanding on this, a basket case will be exposed far more quickly - disaffercted customers, employees, investors etc will make their feelings known. In teh old days, they sued to say one disgruntled customer would on average tell 7 people. Now they will tell tens, hundreds, thousands, will write on review sites, will push negative pages higher in the search rankings than "official" company narraticves, etc etc. Beware the Snake Oil There are too many Social Media snake oil merchants promising miraculous cures today. We talk about what Social Media can do above. This is what it cannot do:
If we had to give our sanguine view, Social Media is the sort of cluster of technologies that today can give low % increases to all those areas we cover above - but once you sum up say a 5% increase in sales volume, a 5% increase in ARPU, a 5% reduction in OPEX and 5% reduction in churn, you wind up with a shift from (ay) 5% margin to near 30% margin. That is life changing for any business, but it has to be done within the current business systems to get the full impact. The medium may be the message, but it isn't the modus operandi*. The Downside Risks As with any powerful new technology, used improperly it can blow up in ones face. There are two main dangers that have emerged so far
The devil in doing all of this is of course in the details. So, we hope to see you on the 15th..... (*With the exception of wholly new businesses that are Social Media businesses, of course - but that is the subject of another post) Tuesday, April 23. 2013All you need to know about Apple in 3 easy steps.
After all this hullabaloo today, all you need to do is look at Apple over 35 years and you will see that they:
Its a waveform. Find a wave, ride a wave, find the next wave. Quarterly numbers are irrelevant. They rode the PC wave very well, then the portable music device, then the smartphone, now the tablet. What will they go after next? And will they be able to reproduce Job's genius for getting onto the board at the right time? Update - my colleague Keith McMahon nailed the current tactic perfectly when he notes that market expectations currently outstrip reality, hence best strategy - buyback shares Sunday, April 21. 2013Broadsight Hierachy of Internet NeedsBroadsight Hierarchy of Internet Needs (after Maslow) Bandwidth for All
This week, I was allowed out of the office for a trip to the Spring Lecture day organized by the Society of Cable Telephony Engineers (SCTE.) It was an eclectic mix of lectures, although I found a theme emerging about the economics of bandwidth. If you are interested in the details of these lecture (and some on other topics), you can see video of the lectures at http://tv.theiet.org (and search for "The Society for Broadband Professionals")
Several of the lectures were on the use of new technology to extend the life of existing plant. Mourad Veeneman, from Liberty Global, spoke about the upgrades to the DOCSIS standard with the 3.1 revision and the focus on getting higher data rates over cable to compete with the emerging technology of fibre to the home (FTTH.) Like many upgrades to transmission (line coding) standards, DOCSIS 3.1 seeks to take advantage of advances in modulation and error correction theories supported by extra processing power at both ends. Also to make use of more spectrum on the cable. Stephen Cooke of Genesis Technical Systems, spoke about a new architecture to enable rural broadband by sharing the pairs in the bundle from the exchange (Telco Office) to the local distribution points (pedestals for North American viewers.) By sharing the data bandwidth on the exchange back haul, what little bandwidth might be available on a long line can be used more effectively by pooling at the distribution point and creating a resilient ring around the community being severed. This doesn't rely on a leap in coding technology, but the insight that Internet connectivity is always contended, so in this case we might as well move the contention out to the edge of the network. A cable drop might have in the order of 20 to 30 pairs and at the end of a long line, those pairs might support 500k each, but bundled together that's still a respectable speed. The Genesis system also allows regeneration at intermediate points, so will usually do a lot getter that that figure suggests. We also had a lecture on the use efficient development and operation of fibre in the network core. For me, these lectures illustrate the point that bandwidth must be provided in a way that is economic (and practical) to customers and makes a profit for operators. There is often a temptation to start a project with the idea that we should "do this right" and not be held back by "legacy." However, engineering (in my view) should always be "the art of the possible" or perhaps "the art of the profitable." This means we need to find clever fixes to maximise current plant, equipment and organisations. DSL has been a brilliant way of leveraging copper pairs that were designed for 3KHz voice and extending their life. DOCSIS has done a similar thing for cable networks, many of which were laid before the Internet had even routed a packet. By the way, this principle can also be applied to software. It's tempting to start again "with a clean slate", but it can be dangerous to underestimate the value of old software that has matured under years of trial, error (and hopefully, fixing!) A nice illustration of this is the the adoption of DOCSIS Provisioning of Ethernet PON (DPoE) by the EPON FTTH standard. This allows ISPs to use their old cable billing and OSS systems by connecting to a DPoE API that presents a "virtual cable modem." This was discussed in the talk by Jim Farmer from Aurora Networks. So it's clear that bandwidth is valuable and has to be provided economically. However, creating and capturing value are not the same thing and a couple of points illustrate this. The first point regarding the growing conflict between 4G Mobile services (LTE in the jargon) and existing TV services was discussed by Dipl. Ing. Carsten Engelke from ANGA. Both terrestrial TV and cable services run in bands that go up to the 700 and 800MHz range. This applies to digital and analogue TV (for those countries that still have analogue.) The mobile industry has persuaded governments (thought the ITU World Radio Conference process) to clear the 800MHz band and soon, the 700MHz band for extra 4G data bandwidth. This means that terrestrial TV has to move, which imposes costs on the broadcasters without benefits. To be fair, they have a privileged position in the first place and can do with less bandwidth once they turn off analogue. A bigger problem is for the cable industry, where their business model is essentially to compete with DSL and FTTH. This means that they are relying on most or all of the bandwidth in their cables. Although it's early days for LTE in the 800MHz band, there are examples of the LTE signal getting into the cable and blocking TV. Although it's a signal from the mobile tower, it becomes a problem for the cable company. If the signal is leaking in through a customer's TV (due to unintended pick-up) there may not be much they can do about. So the mobile company has captured some value to the cost of the cable company. I am not making judgements about companies here as they are just using the bandwidth that has been licensed to them. However, it is worth making the point that externalities become complex and may become more so with increasing use of power line and cognitive radio. The other example is allocation of Wi-Fi frequencies, which have been a huge benefit to businesses and consumers, but risk becoming a neglected spectrum user. Wi-Fi has two main bands allocated to it. Most common in the 2.5G range and another in the 5G range. (5G is getting to the point where radio is starting to behave like infra-red and doesn't like to go through walls, so is less useful than 2.5G.) With only 3 non-overlapping channels in the 2.5G range, Wi-Fi is oversubscribed in most medium and high-density residential areas. It wouldn't be hard to add another band to mitigate this problem and would, arguably, be a significant benefit to users. However, no one appears to be pushing for this at the WRC and so it's unlikely to happen. We could speculate that this is because residential Wi-Fi is not directly billable and so no one can capture the value and therefore have an interest in promoting it. To sum up - as bandwidth provision increases, we keep finding ways to use it, from GIFs to music/speech to video and now HD/4K video. I am sure we will carry on filling up the pipes, so thanks to the engineers who keep re-building them. This brings to mind a review I read (a long time ago) about the first 9600bit/s modem, which went something like "this is all very well, but no one can type that fast – so what's the point?" Friday, April 19. 2013Toxic News....and Social Media too?
There was a very interesting article in the Grauniad the other day, arguing that News can be toxic (the irony of the article being in a newspaper is there...). Its based on an essay by German writer Rolf Dobelli and argues that News deliberately plays to some of our more primitive instincts, so a glut can be bad for our health. In summary, the argument is:
News misleads. . It often looks at the wrong problem, or over-eggs the spectacular. We are not rational enough to be exposed to the press. Watching an airplane crash on television is going to change your attitude toward that risk, regardless of its real probability. If you think you can compensate with the strength of your own inner contemplation, you are wrong. Bankers and economists – who have powerful incentives to compensate for news-borne hazards – have shown that they cannot. The only solution: cut yourself off from news consumption entirely. The author says he "has now gone without news for four years, so I can see, feel and report the effects of this freedom first-hand: less disruption, less anxiety, deeper thinking, more time, more insights. It's not easy, but it's worth it.". I must say I did the same, a similar time ago, after spending an extended period outside the UK and realising missing out on the daily News had a similar effect. I prefer to read "the News" once a week from journals eg the Economist, as very little that happens on a day to day basis is much more than mental chewing gum. So here's the kicker for this article. What I have been using, a lot, over the last few years is social media of many forms. I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the more immediate types (like Twitter etc) have a similar effect to News if over-consumed and have started to curtail my usage of it too (except for blogs, which I see as the more investigative element). If you replace the word "News" with "Social Media" in the above passage, it is largely still true in my view. Thoughts? Wednesday, April 17. 2013The Friendship Paradox, a (Power) Law of NatureSource: FRS blog, Princeton Picked up from the New Scientist: Sociologists have long known that people have fewer friends than their friends do, on average. This strange conclusion, known as the friendship paradox, arises because of sampling bias: people with a larger number of friends are more likely to be your friend, so they get counted more often. Re the Friendhsip Paradox, it is also seen on Facebook - NYT You spend your time tweeting, friending, liking, poking, and in the few minutes left, cultivating friends in the flesh. Yet sadly, despite all your efforts, you probably have fewer friends than most of your friends have. But don't despair — the same is true for almost all of us. Our friends are typically more popular than we are. In fact its a power law thing, in any network the "connectors" at the centre of friendship nets have a large number of friends, the less connected on the ouskirts have far fewer, so the "average" is higher than the average peripheral user owing to the high score of the connected Ones - see picture above. (Read the maths in the article, its a very good primer on social graph link weightings). The other highly connected strategy is to be a Social Butterfly, a being peripherally connected to many friendship nets In short, unless you are the social hub of your friendship network, or a social butterfly, you will suffer from the Friendship Paradox - its one of the Power Laws of Nature.
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Combining usually internet or other types of videos whilst some times incorporating music to create a new video that either may be centered around one more themes, or merely to show all of the videos together. Hes "mashing" together auto-tune remix videos.
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the act of female masturbation. can be used as an insult as well as a verb in the same way as wanker is used both as a pejorative and to describe the act of a man masturbating. "is she mashing it"
or "that chick is such a masher" or if a woman cuts you off in traffic you can yell "you fucking masher" |
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drving fast i was mashin down the street.
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When bicyclists, namely fixed-speed riders, dip and weave quickly through cars, skid through them, or a combination of the two. Mark is one of the best messengers I know. He's so good at Mashing.
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the act of squishing your private parts together. i walked in on her mashing.it was gross.and stunk.
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The act of strolling into your local supermarket and heading toward the fruit and veg section. Where you start to masturbate yourself as vigorous as possible, ending with a creamy substance left all over the potatoes, much like Planking became an internet sensation many have taken to Mashing in much the same way. Andrew: "Look at that girl over there by the tomatoes, she's got her hands right down her knickers."
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Mashing is a term commonly used to describe frotteurism. Frotteurism is a type of paraphilia involving sexual urges or sexually arousing fantasies involving bumping or rubbing against a stranger and/or a nonconsenting person for sexual gratifucation. Frank was arrested for mashing a woman on a crowded subway.


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As Novak Djokovic lifted the trophy on Sunday as Wimbledon Champion, the LC Batak Challenge also drew to an end. The challenge proved a big hit with gym members and some fantastic scores were recorded. There were three winners, Toni Edwards took the prize for the women's with a score of 320, Ryan Naaif had a great score of 289 to take home the Izone prize but it was Will Thomas who broke the LC Batak record with a score of 553! Congratulations to this month's champions and everyone who took part in the challenged.
As we move into July the next gym challenge will being and is inspired by the Tour de France. This is your chance to show us your peddle power on the 'Tour de France Expresso Bike Challenge'. Participants can choose between the 5mile 'Dragon Fire' course and the 10mile 'Outlaw Rock' course on the expresso bikes either in the Izone or the main gym. Make sure you get one of the gym team to record your time and maybe this time next month you can rest your aching limbs in the spa with your free membership.
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True test looms for Lambie
16 Oct 2012
JON CARDINELLI writes that Pat Lambie may have to steer the Sharks to Currie Cup glory if he's going to convince Heyneke Meyer of his value as a match-winning flyhalf.
Did Lambie's performance against Griquas mean anything? Of course it did. It was massive in the context of the Sharks' season, as it helped the Durbanites bank a potential home final.
It was important in that it allowed Lambie a rare start, and even more significantly a rare start in his best position of flyhalf. But was it meaningful in the context of Lambie's bid for the Bok flyhalf jersey? I don't think so.
Lambie enjoyed a great return to the starting line-up last Friday. He was accurate in front of goal, he gave the Sharks direction both as a distributor and tactical kicker. He was solid on defence and innovative on attack. It was a complete performance, and it would have given him plenty of confidence.
But the pressure will mount this week ahead of a semi-final showdown against the Bulls. For all the bluster about Griquas being giant killers, they are never a threat at the back end of the season. They struggle because of injuries and battle to compete against the big five teams who are boosted by the returning Boks.
Griquas are never going to win the Currie Cup with their current game plan. There is too much emphasis on attack, and not enough on defence. This weakness was exploited all too easily by the Sharks last Friday. And yet, John Plumtree's men would do well to remember that the defence of the better teams in the play-offs will be tougher to breach.
There will be more pressure on Lambie this Saturday. There will be more pressure from a defensive point of view. There will be more pressure on him to win the territorial battle, and there will also be more pressure on him to maintain his excellent goal-kicking form.
It has to be viewed as a great opportunity. If Lambie can excel under such pressure and steer the Sharks to victory, it would serve as a big statement. If he can go one step further and guide the Sharks to another Currie Cup title, well then it would be difficult for Heyneke Meyer to deny that he is the best flyhalf candidate for that November tour to Europe.
We have been in this situation before. Lambie helped the Sharks win the 2010 Currie Cup final, and one of the most enduring moments of that match was of the young flyhalf handing off WP captain Schalk Burger en route to the tryline. Unfortunately, he was used only as a substitute on the subsequent Bok tour. He did well when he started for the Boks at 10 against the All Blacks in 2011, but wasn't used there again.
Meyer is still undecided about Lambie, and it isn't hard to understand why. While it's clear the kid has all the skills, he hasn't really settled into one position.
Injury has also played a part in this unfortunate situation if you remember that Lambie was crocked in the 2012 Super Rugby competition just when he was starting to fire as a flyhalf. When he returned to fitness, the Sharks had settled on Freddie Michalak as their pivot and so Lambie filled in at fullback for the remainder of the season.
If the Sharks win this weekend and progress to the final, it will mean that Lambie will have three Currie Cup games in total to show Meyer what he can offer as a flyhalf. As I mentioned earlier, the fixture against Griquas was important for other reasons. The two play-off games will be massive in terms of pressure, with each of the four teams leaning on their Boks. If Lambie thrives in that environment, then it will say much for his mental aptitude as well as his physical ability.
Meyer will, of course, be watching the progress of other potential flyhalves closely.
Morné Steyn was better against the Lions last Saturday, but will also need to show that he can perform in the matches that matter. Just as a title win for the Sharks will underline Lambie's value, another domestic trophy for the Bulls will show that Steyn is not a spent force as a match-winner.
With Johan Goosen ruled out with injury, Elton Jantjies played much of that Test against the All Blacks at Soccer City. The Lions lost to the Bulls last week, but they will be hoping that the reinstatement of Jantjies at 10 gets them back to winning ways. Again, it's a high pressure environment that could reveal whether Jantjies is in the right headspace to spearhead the Boks' coming overseas campaign.
I still believe that in the absence of Goosen, Lambie is the only flyhalf in South Africa who has the necessary all-round skills needed to bring the Boks success in a more balanced game plan. But Lambie has to use this semi-final opportunity, and possibly an opportunity in the final as well, to make a believer out of Meyer.
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16 Oct 2012, 17:49 pmTo close to home… Sorry mate!
16 Oct 2012, 18:06 pmRangerman, the youth league doesn't have the flavour it used to buddy. I'm sitting on the fence for mangaung.
16 Oct 2012, 18:09 pm@mpundulu-452: i dont blame you.
which corrupt bunch to back must be difficult.
16 Oct 2012, 18:16 pmRangerman, as you know our lot are all nefarious, so fair point chum.
16 Oct 2012, 18:17 pm@mpundulu-411:
Hahahaha!! Akhonto xhego, was just stating facts… Am sure isizathu sakho sopavela iNZ siluqilima, kodwa lonto ayithethi ba ihistory yabo is not tainted. Kodwa ke oko akuthethi ba asinovana. I get along with Bulls and Sharks supporters as well. As for Nonu sim adoptile, sizomazisa kwi zinyanya xa iHighlanders zizodlala eBhayi.
16 Oct 2012, 18:25 pm@mpundulu-454: ag its actually quite sad bud.
really it is.
16 Oct 2012, 18:27 pmDon't even know if it worth posting this story here – as there are no FS bloggers and only a handful of people and their dogs who go and watch this insignificant farm union.
Johannesburg – The future of Free State Cheetahs coach Naka Drotske and his assistants is very much on the line when they face the EP Kings in Bloemfontein in their promotion-relegation match on Friday.
According to supersport.com website, but Drotske and co may not be the only ones who come under the spotlight, as a much wider-reaching "cleanout" is on the cards if the Cheetahs do not stay in the Premier division of Absa Currie Cup rugby and lose to the Kings.While there is a lot of pressure on Drotske and his team this week, it has been compounded by talk in Bloemfontein of "heads rolling" if the Cheetahs lose.
Free State Rugby Union President Lyndsey Mould told Die Volksblad that he would launch an investigation as early as next week into why the Cheetahs were in this position.
"If we beat the EP Kings on Friday or not, I want to get all the decisionmakers together and if we have to act aggressively, we will do that," Mould told the newspaper.
"A lot of things have gone wrong this season and we have played without a number of our stalwarts, but that is no excuse. There simply isn't any excuse."
The Cheetahs have thus far stuck by coach Drotske, even though he has never managed to finish higher than 10th in the Vodacom Super Rugby series and their last Currie Cup success was in 2007.
The team is also playing in their first promotion-relegation game since 1988, and a loss would be devastating to the union.
"If we are to be relegated, it will have major consequences for the Free State Rugby Union. We will lose sponsorships and that will mean that everybody's jobs will be on the line. Friday night is all that the players and management must focus on, nothing else."Yes I know it was hell of a boring reading that tripe. Personally I would prefer that the Kings win the promotion relegation battle – not only will that give them the leg up that they need but it will also mean the end of those doos's Verster and Drokse.
That will also see the FS bastardse face my Lions in a relegation promotion match for super rugby inclusion – death to the duplictious racist FS rubbish!
16 Oct 2012, 18:34 pm@RL-457:
still bitter eh re d pu ssy?
funny i seem to recall you punting wp and loving them a couple of season ago and hating the sharks and yet tobie bent you and reamed you like a prison b ey atch and the sharkies tried to help your union out?
excuse me if i exclude you from the lions fans i sympathise with
16 Oct 2012, 18:37 pmRangerman, why doesn't your lot teach our chaps how one ought to behave, you guys have a history of doing a stellar job, you've trained one or two natives in your time.
16 Oct 2012, 18:41 pmthat sounds like a bit of a trap my pel.
sadly i think it was the previous lot that taught the current lot most of what they know about corruption.
good leaders are hard to find.
p.s. i have trained a native or two indeed, usually we called them trackers and respected the fact that we were operating on their land. nice chaps those nativbes but not a rugby player amongst them.
16 Oct 2012, 18:41 pmMxhosa, Siyabulela bhuti, Hayi Wena Mpandla, isizathu yoba ndi pavela iABs Ngoba utata wam ebathanda njalo nje sasiya eNZ siyobabona be dlala. Ayisonto yemzabalazo.
16 Oct 2012, 18:42 pm@mpundulu-461: drinking on the weekend.
win or lose we hit the booze?
16 Oct 2012, 18:46 pm@rangerman-458: Tobie's hands are clean – he is no longer WP … but he is SARU.
Don't worry Ranger, I am still plotting my revenge on those duplictious brokebacks and that papbek Tobie.
16 Oct 2012, 18:46 pmWell this thread is marginally less offensive than yesterday's
16 Oct 2012, 18:48 pmPatience not patients.
16 Oct 2012, 18:49 pm@rangerman-460: HIyas Ranger!!
Yup you were being set up for A trap
16 Oct 2012, 18:52 pmHay ke ndivile xhego. Lamadlagusha asenayo indawo esileyo… sesibulela nje into yoba amadoda aneziduko avumelekile kwelaqela lethu.
16 Oct 2012, 18:52 pmRangerman, what I've realised that corruption is either sophisticated or just garish, however, the central point it's a constant in all governments. Nonetheless, those who are not in power always think they can do materially better, which is fair enough as that's how democracy operates. I just don't give it much weight as the old boss will always be the same as the new boss.
16 Oct 2012, 18:53 pmTrap schmap
Mpundi aint that dof
16 Oct 2012, 18:56 pm@Dawn-465: no man as in those you visit in hospital.
16 Oct 2012, 18:58 pmOk keep your red shirt on
16 Oct 2012, 19:00 pmWhere's the Rev Jones.
16 Oct 2012, 19:03 pmMpandla, inxaki nezigamla azisoze zisifune, nawumane nicela isoup kubo baninike ichappies. Mna ndakuhlala ne ABs zam, ndiyabazi abadlali.
16 Oct 2012, 19:07 pm@Dawn-465: maybe he plans on turning them into patients?
@sharks_lover-466: ja i knew it lol.
@mpundulu-468: nah bud, i agree corruption exists in all govts, its simply the level that changes.
accepting it will not change it though.
16 Oct 2012, 19:13 pmTyhini? Umntu nguwe mos….
Masisuke kwezamazwe ngamazwe. Apha ekhaya likhona iqela olilandelayo?
16 Oct 2012, 20:38 pmHayi Mpandla, ndingum mshengu andinako uba ndibe yipavi yeqhela yalapha ngwevu lam.
16 Oct 2012, 20:40 pmRangerman, there's a level of corruption that you could find acceptable? What is it?
16 Oct 2012, 22:56 pm…Trap schmap…
…Dawn prawn…
17 Oct 2012, 01:07 amEnglish Subtitles Please
17 Oct 2012, 03:29 am@mpundulu-477: You have about 30 million South Africans happy with the current level of state corruption. I don't see anyone marching the streets protesting against government corruption. So why don't you poll some of the masses on the level of corruption they have come to accept?
17 Oct 2012, 09:13 am@mpundulu-477: i dont accept any level bud.
because its my money being wasted.
but the anc have really become a filthy rotten corpse and must be burnt on the pyre of history.
21 Oct 2012, 22:43 pmAs a WP fan, a fear that Lambie is going to rule the day on Sat. Pure class… Its great to have a coastal final! Gonna be a cracker1
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Sergeant Holcomb is a member of the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. Four other soldiers — Staff Sgt. Andrew J. Van Bockel, Sgt. Jeffrey T. Hurst, Specialist Thomas P. Curtis and Specialist Ryan J. Offutt — are accused of involuntary manslaughter, negligent homicide and assault consummated by battery, among other crimes, relating to the suicide of Pvt. Chen.
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There are so many internet schemes out there it's hard to keep up. But this alleged eBay scam caught my eye last week, if only because it involved the federal court here in Charlotte, and a routine type eBay crime that could snare any unsuspecting buyer.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte last week filed charges against a Barry Alan Younce in connection with what prosecutors described as a fraudulent scheme to sell computers on eBay. They say between March 2005 and September 2006, Younce used the user name of "sq20" to post ads on eBay saying he had computers for sale. The bill of information prosecutors filed says "he in fact had no intention of providing the merchandise to the potential buyer."
Authorities say on about 252 occasions, he obtained payment by wire transfer or otherwise, but didn't send the equipment. They say Younce engineered one of the transfers at least in part from Caldwell County. Overall, prosecutors say victims lost more than $207,000, some of which Younce refunded, and some of it he kept.
I know many folks use eBay often and love it. But I've always hesitated to buy things there, precisely because of possible situations like this one. I asked the eBay folks for comment, and a spokeswoman sent an e-mail saying:
"eBay has a zero tolerance for criminal activity and we work closely with law enforcement to prosecute anyone who attempts to abuse our services. We are fully committed to creating a safe, fair and enjoyable trading experience for all eBay users while aggressively protecting our users from harm."
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11 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Pay with Pay Pal using a credit card, and you will get your money refunded for fraudulent transactions.
- May 3, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- Anonymous said...
Paypal doesn't guarantee you'll get a refund. All the seller has to do is provide you (and paypal when the appeal by the buyer is underway) a tracking number. The box could be filled with nothing or even a rock. They can then prove you was shipped a package & paypal does NOT have to refund you a dime. Trust me, it has happened before unfortunately. Your best bet is to check the seller's reputation before bidding. If a small number or no transactions, or even several negative feedbacks, think twice before ordering.
- May 3, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
I prefer Craigslist because I can inspect the item(s) before purchase. The unmentioned risk with ebay is that buyers and sellers can have honest differences of opinion as to an item's condition. But I do purchase through ebay by using Paypal and examining the seller's rating, and I've not had a problem to date.
- May 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
Like another person said check the sellers feedback rating. I have sold and purchased 100's of items and I am very happy with the ebay system.
- May 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have sold over 20K items on eBay and have purchased 100's of items. . . no problems!!! It is best to use Paypal and check the seller's reputation when buying.
- May 3, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have been burnt using PayPal for a ~$70 item, and PayPal refunded about 1/2 of my purchase...and I used a CC in that transaction.
Definitely check seller feedback and only buy from reputable sellers. - May 3, 2011 at 1:52 PM
- YUMMommy said...
You just have be really careful when buying stuff on eBay. I like to ask my Twitter followers to recommend sellers they have worked with. The one great thing about Twitter is that when it comes to advice there are always an abundant amount of ppl waiting to help. Also, shopping from online outlets with national brands are best. If you're in the market for a computer it's safer and probably cheaper to get one from the Dell outlet on eBay than risking it with a total stranger.
- May 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
True, Pay Pal won't refund the full amount of a fraudulent transaction but most credit cards have free fraud protection. I used this feature several years ago to recover the part that Pay Pal didn't cover.
- May 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
NEWVER USE PAYPAL, Always use a CREDIT CARD. PAYPAL has a HORRIBLE non-existent resolution center. When I've been screwed on eBay they do nothing. I thank the individuals at my credit cards for providing assistance. PAYPAL HAS NO BUYERS OR SELLERS SUPPORT!
- May 3, 2011 at 8:29 PM
- AJ said...
Anonymous @ 8:29PM is right. PayPal is a horrible joke! Don't believe me? Go to the PayPal website and try to find a number for customer service. It doesn't exist!
PayPal was fined a few years ago for not publishing their customer service number (among other things) and was supposedly forced by the courts to make the number public, but it still hasn't happened! What's worse? You can Google their number, and there are many sites that will list the numbers for you or not only their toll free customer service line, but also the numbers of VP's and higher ups, but if you call any of them, you don't ever get an answer. The customer service number will actually hang up on you after about 2 minutes!!! Trust me, I've been trying to resolve an issue with PayPal for months now and have decided I will just give up and stop using them. - May 4, 2011 at 7:25 AM
- Anonymous said...
I was one of the victims...he had a 99% rating, we used paypal but received nothing back. this was 5 years ago!
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