March 2009
1 post
Still just a bunch of monkeys?
According to the Economist, yes. At the risk of violating several of Polina’s axioms of blog popularity ;) , I am not going to write about Google, and I am going to recommend you read an article (http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13176775) from last week’s Economist about Facebook, primates and something called the “Dunbar number”.
In case you...
February 2009
13 posts
I ♥ e-commerce
Based on this week’s discussion in class about e-commerce, it seems to me that my husband’s comment that “no one loves shopping online as much as you do” may not have been as much of an exaggeration as I otherwise would have claimed.
So, I thought I would devote today’s post to online shopping, and offer some observations and lessons learned from a customer perspective.
My first foray into...
Is Google your one and only?
Based on our previous discussions in class, we are all heavy Google users….and based on the stats we’ve seen, we’re not alone in that. Along these lines, a recent New York Times article, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/business/22digi.html?ref=technology ,
talks about Google’s growing dominance in the United States and the potential for anti-trust concerns to rise in...
Does this make you want to buy a chocolate bar? ...
We’ve discussed the Cadbury gorilla in the past, but this week I saw a new (and possibly more peculiar) Cadbury ad involving two kids and their crazy eyebrows. (Check it out online at: http://www.aglassandahalffullproductions.com/#/paddock/portrait )
I actually came across it when I was uploading some pictures to photobox and they had a promotion where you can get your own Cadbury Eyebrow...
An ad-free Google search?
Following on the discussion in class today, and in a possibly futile attempt to prove I’m not nuts, I’ve looked into the question as to whether Google would ever show you an ad-free search result page. According to their website (http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html):
6. You can make money without doing evil.
Google is a business. The revenue the company generates is...
Here's how NOT to do it...
I was a bit surprised this morning by the lack of communication from the school about the snow storm and how it would (or would not) affect classes.
The first semi-official email didn’t show up until 10 a.m. and it was (by its own admission) “incomplete information”. I was under the impression that we all had to have complete contact information on portal so the school could...
January 2009
2 posts
Believing what we read
Scott Gallacher’s talk in last week’s class gave us lots of food for thought…one thing I keep returning to is the issue of the “impartial” review sites as well as the “sponsored content” that appears in the guise of editorial content on many portal sites. As consumers, many of us may previously have believed that we could take the advice given by these...
The power of free
Listening to the BBC World Service this week, I came across the following interview with Peter Day (podcast online at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20090108.shtml) which I encourage you to check out.
Day was speaking with Chris Anderson (the editor in chief of Wired magazine) about his new book which deals with “the power of free”. I thought...