The Smiley Dictionary illustrates and defines 200 of the most common, most useful, and most creative smileys collected from bulletin boards around the world. What are smileys? They're the little faces, constructed from keyboard characters, that people on electronic bulletin boards and e-mail systems use to communicate irony, glee, disappointment, and so forth. Included are smileys with mustaches, headaches, and bad attitudes, as well as an Elvis, a David Letterman, a Santa Claus, and even an Annette Funicello.The book is designed with four smileys on each page. The facing page contains the "definition" of each smiley, letting readers have fun guessing exactly what each smiley is supposed to mean. The author's great sense of humor makes this book a joy to read. The Smiley Dictionary is the first and only book on this topic. It will quickly become the standard reference in the field, and it belongs on the desk of every networked computer user.
Seth Godin is the author of fourteen international bestsellers that have been translated into over 35 languages, and have changed the way people think about marketing and work. His Unleashing the Ideavirus was the most popular ebook ever published, and Purple Cow is the bestselling marketing book of the decade.
His book, Tribes, was a nationwide bestseller, appearing on the Amazon, New York Times, BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. It's about the most powerful form of marketing--leadership--and how anyone can now become a leader, creating movements that matter.
His book Linchpin, and was the fastest selling book of his career. Linchpin challenges you to stand up, do work that matters and race to the top instead of the bottom. More than that, though, the book outlines a massive change in our economy, a fundamental shift in what it means to have a job.
Since Linchpin, Godin has published two more books, Poke the Box and We Are All Weird, through his Domino Project.
In addition to his writing and speaking, Seth is founder and CEO of Squidoo.com, a fast growing recommendation website. His blog (find it by typing "seth" into Google) is the most popular marketing blog in the world. Before his work as a writer and blogger, Godin was Vice President of Direct Marketing at Yahoo!, a job he got after selling them his pioneering 1990s online startup, Yoyodyne.
You can find every single possible detail that anyone could ever want to know at squidoo.com/seth.
