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Weekend Contest

neemee Thinkers... look for a new contest to be announced this Friday close to 5:00PM. We want to hit 20K by Monday AM and we are giving you a chance to get involved and maybe earn a little cash.

Change your behavior, load neemee everyday for just one week, and you will find yourself thinking a lot more during your surfing than ever before.

Introducing the neemee Podcast

We have new feature here at the neemee blog brought to you straight from the Farm (if you have to ask it would take too long to explain). This is our first one regarding a new genre of music called Crunkcore. Here is our version of a podcast, and that means it has the latest good stuff right from neemee^TM with a couple of actionable suggestions thrown in to boot. Please enjoy and let us know what you might like us to tackle next.

Download Crunkcore.m4a

Winner, winner chicken dinner!

What a swift couple of weeks we have had here inside neemee^TM HQ. The "Air Contest" has brought many new users into the system and hopefully grown the collective knowledge base of everyone who has participated. The selection committee had some tough choices to make coming down to the final day of the contest. Who would the Springfield and Chicago winners be? In short, around 80 thoughts made the final cut and when the smoke cleared two people stood out from the crowd. The use of tags, comments, multiple pictures, diversity of sources, and relevant information pushed these two to the top.

From Chicago - Pete Dufner aka "Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot" was awarded the MacBook Air for his thought on Build Your Own Chicago.

The Springfield Office - Chad Harris aha "charris" was chosen for the Thought Human Actors Rendered Obsolete.

Both associates are to be congratulated for really digging into neemee and giving us some great Thoughts.

The iPhone 3G winners are Dionne Reese from Springfield, and Ginger Bryan from Chicago. Both ladies loaded more thoughts per location, and we hope you enjoy the new phones. Please contact Caitlin Checkett for the details around the phone. Thanks for participating, and we are thrilled with the way you have plugged into neemee and loaded us up with great information from your heads.

Congratulations to everyone who participated and our desire is that you keep plugging into Life through neemee. Go ahead and add this blog's RSS feed to your Google Reader or RSS Aggregator as well, keep us in the loop.

Special thanks to Dan Stewart and team for the great promo around the campus for the event, and Joe Langford and Caitlin Checkett for taking care of the details on the prizes. Want to thank BOB for the idea for the contest, and everyone for making neemee your first and last stop of the day on your computer.

New Feature: Add comments to any thought

1  . In an effort to make neemee more interactive and team oriented, you can now add comments to anyone’s thoughts. The box to input a comment will be below the contents of the thought as seen by the second arrow in the picture below. Simply scroll down on any thought and comment! The first arrow is where the comment is located after it is submitted. Debate, praise, have fun, or even give some constructive criticism with this comment feature. Let the collaboration and thinking to an even higher power begin.

Make your next thought better than your last.

This is a guest post from Bob Noble at www.blognoble.com

The first thought.

Whether you believe in evolution, or intelligent design, or creation by an uncreated god—think about this.

What was it like to have the first thought? When those synapses crackled for the first time, did somebody, whoever it was, think “me,” “there is a me,” “me cold,” “me hungry,” “me want self-actualization”? Obviously, that last thought came later, and even today doesn’t come that often. But I’ll wager that soon after beings started to think, the ones who developed a capacity to think better, did better.

And that’s all we’re trying to help you do with neemee™. Only instead of being in a jungle, or a garden, or wherever that first thought came, we’re helping you think where you live today—firmly planted in the information age on the brink of an evolutionary revolution some people are calling Web 3.0.

But that is getting ahead of things.

Right now we have Web 1.0 and, for some, Web 2.0. And we have our hands full. Google. Yahoo. Facebook. MySpace. YouTube. 3D. Virtual Reality. Everything is mutating like an out-of-control virus in a Petri dish. The culture is growing wild, and you have to make a choice. Run and hide? Or inoculate yourself by injecting some of that virus right into your veins?

It’s never good to run and hide from technology.

The Boomer Generation comprises about 85% of decision makers in the business population. They understand Web 1.0 as a search device that can direct them to just about anything they want. That is, if they know what they want. (Remember, “me hungry.”) The basic bookmarking tool based on algorithms works for them. It’s like a phone book, or a fancy way of finding anything in the “library” of knowledge. Yet most of the “run and hide” Boomers are overwhelmed by the data, can’t find any real meaning in it, don’t get the social networking thing, see it as a kid toy, and have no idea how to make money with it.

The NetGenners (internet generation) simply don’t know anything else. They’ve either grown up with the web or embraced it as the boat carrying them through a monstrous sea change to an unknown shore. These are the tech-savvy, and they see the web as a magical doorway in a whole new expanding world of delights that come to them wherever they are. (Quite a difference.) One of the most amazing things about this group is that they can be any age. They don’t fear the web, they drink it in, and they are being trained to think in a whole new way.

People are being rebrained.

In a recent Atlantic Monthly article entitled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, author Nicholas Carr made some very startling observations about what he fears the web is doing to our minds.

He describes his personal experience this way, “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.”

He goes on to explain his concern with regard to how Google and other search engines program us or, more likely, reprogram us to trip “from link to link to link.” The mind-altering rewiring of our thought process is not confined to the vague feelings of Mr. Carr. He states in his article that “a recently published study of online research habits, conducted by scholars from University College London, suggests that we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think.” What they found is that people skim or hop from site to site, many times intending to go back to something they like, but most of the time they just keep going. This flitting about is described by Mr. Carr as a real threat to the ability to concentrate. “Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”

The genie is out.

When I read articles like this, I can’t help but chuckle. It reminds me of writings from the turn of the 19th century and the reports of how the industrial age was destroying life as they knew it. Well, we all know it did—and, at the same time, it also created a whole new life with a lifestyle never dreamed possible in the agrarian age.

You can’t stop progress no matter how seemingly frightful it may seem. You can only learn to use it or get left behind. In our case, we’ve decided to accept how people are being rebrained in the information age, and to make every effort to give them the training and the mind-tools they need to harness what others fear. The genie is not going back into the bottle.

Our new creative search engine—neemee™—is a power browser built for people to speed-surf, easily capture and tag thoughts, collaborate, and share. You can Jet Ski or scuba dive, skim or dive deep.

This new semantic approach steps into the future of how the new web thinkers will think. It’s technology with meaning—and the results transcend the raw input based on what participants think and say. The expansive ontology is a “human” structure of thought within collections within ideas—and those thoughts and ideas can be easily captured, tagged, and shared. The improved thinking capacity stems from the connecting thoughts of those who capture and share. Neemee opens up the web to exploration with heart, soul, and passion—something no cold-blooded algorithm can create.

Fun? Fancy? Or the power browser that individuals and businesses have long been waiting for?

Young people aren’t afraid of what the web might do to their thinking. It’s all they’ve ever known. And if there is something to help them think better, we’re learning they’ll accept it with open minds. Neemee is fun and fanciful, and that’s what makes it the perfect business tool. In capturing and collecting thoughts that can be applied to business, juxtaposing them with others, and mashing them up into new ideas, neemee elevates “thinking to the next power.” No organization dedicated to reaping the benefits of Web 3.0 should be without it.

Before you search, ask “What’s on your mind?”

You have to experience neemee to understand all of what I’m saying, and when you do, you’ll discover that we don’t even have a “search” box. We ask “What’s on your mind?” You think, you type it in, and you click. Instantly you enter a new and wonderful world of thoughts, collections, and mind-enriching stimulation. You contribute as well as harvest, and everything is contextual—not mathematical, but human—in thought streams that take you to the new way the web is evolving—open, collaborative, contextual, and full of life’s meaning. All with the simple but purposeful goal of elevating your “thinking to the next power.”

That’s it, from the edge of the world,

Bob

Whether you believe in evolution, or intelligent design, or creation by an uncreated god—think about this.

What was it like to have the first thought? When those synapses crackled for the first time, did somebody, whoever it was, think “me,” “there is a me,” “me cold,” “me hungry,” “me want self-actualization”? Obviously, that last thought came later, and even today doesn’t come that often. But I’ll wager that soon after beings started to think, the ones who developed a capacity to think better, did better.

And that’s all we’re trying to help you do with neemee™. Only instead of being in a jungle, or a garden, or wherever that first thought came, we’re helping you think where you live today—firmly planted in the information age on the brink of an evolutionary revolution some people are calling Web 3.0.

But that is getting ahead of things.

Right now we have Web 1.0 and, for some, Web 2.0. And we have our hands full. Google. Yahoo. Facebook. MySpace. YouTube. 3D. Virtual Reality. Everything is mutating like an out-of-control virus in a Petri dish. The culture is growing wild, and you have to make a choice. Run and hide? Or inoculate yourself by injecting some of that virus right into your veins?

It’s never good to run and hide from technology.

The Boomer Generation comprises about 85% of decision makers in the business population. They understand Web 1.0 as a search device that can direct them to just about anything they want. That is, if they know what they want. (Remember, “me hungry.”) The basic bookmarking tool based on algorithms works for them. It’s like a phone book, or a fancy way of finding anything in the “library” of knowledge. Yet most of the “run and hide” Boomers are overwhelmed by the data, can’t find any real meaning in it, don’t get the social networking thing, see it as a kid toy, and have no idea how to make money with it.

The NetGenners (internet generation) simply don’t know anything else. They’ve either grown up with the web or embraced it as the boat carrying them through a monstrous sea change to an unknown shore. These are the tech-savvy, and they see the web as a magical doorway in a whole new expanding world of delights that come to them wherever they are. (Quite a difference.) One of the most amazing things about this group is that they can be any age. They don’t fear the web, they drink it in, and they are being trained to think in a whole new way.

Thanks for the Views

If our Alexa rankings are any indication on the interest of neemee then thank you for the views. Over the last three months our reach has risen 3,249%, and our page views have jumped 866%. We are working overtime to ensure that every minute spent on neemee.com is an experience that will benefit your insights, creativity, and connection to the world around you.

Beyond search, neemee is about jumping ahead, making new connections, and creating your own thoughts and contributing to the World Thought Bank.

If our statistics are any indication this Tuesday will be the most time spent on neemee early on in the week. If that is true you might have missed some great insights that have be created over the weekend. We want to bring some of these to your attention:

Walt created this Thought about Kippers, or Kids in parents pockets, that really speaks to what is happening within the "new family" in Australia as economic pressures continue to mount and at least 50% of Gen Y still lives at home. (Thought) Read his tags and notice the great use of generational words like boomer, and Generation Y. For more on this check directly to the source or check out www.culturewav.es for more info on Living Vicariously.

AlliD created this thought over the weekend that fits directly into what we are seeing on the blending of gender roles. From Manscara to Guyliner and down to Mantyhose the growth of mens metrosexuality apparently isn't limited to the make--up section. With Zack Effron and Pete Wentz becoming the poster boys of pretty, we are seeing an increase in the amount of beauty supplies on the male front. (Thought)

Where will all this lead us? Great questions to ask yourself as you continue to lead your partners to more authentic avenues of communication, and better innovation in the marketplace. These are just two of the great depths neemee can lead you to as you dig deeper into culture and life.