Category Archives: marketing

5-year-old’s Logo Analysis

This is just great. It’s completely pure. via Brand New

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Are the carriers driving complexity in device selection?

An interesting post popped up at The Verge last night where Motorola’s Sanjay Jha starts to reveal that the Carriers are what’s driving so many variants of user experience on Android. We also talked about OEMs’ perennial press to skin … Continue reading

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WSJ is an anti-sharing publication

As a paying subscriber to the WSJ, I’d like to share some things I read with people. I do this from a lot of publications, but only the WSJ uses the social exchange opportunity to close the paywall.  Anyone who … Continue reading

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Chase bank customer data issue

I’ve been a Chase bank customer for over a decade and they stay mainly out of the way yet with a few rather annoying exceptions. Each month I get an email telling me about a failed transfer attempt because of … Continue reading

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Will Verizon’s paperless receipts be part of Isis?

According to IntoMobile, Verizon is about to introduce paperless receipts at their retails stores.  This seems like a great idea for existing customers though I’d love to see this get some NFC integration … tap to pay have it billed via … Continue reading

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Looks like the NYT is playing the link game …

As you can see with the image here, there’s a second click required to read the actual story which is pretty lame. I clicked through from Google Reader and actually noticed this on an earlier post as well. Why would … Continue reading

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Continue to (re)define yourself

nice interview via FastCompany with John Jay, W+K’s Global Executive Creative Director on breaking out of Silos … via Chase Jarvis

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Pedal-Powered Vending Machine Dispenses Drink Samples

  I caught this one via Adrants and think it’s pretty cool. I typically go out of my way to avoid the street team sample people, but this would certainly get my attention… no so sure about the drink however given … Continue reading

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Apparently Consumers Don’t Trust Google or Apple With Mobile Payments

An interesting study from Ogilvy … and a not so surprising response given our historical payment relationships are with the traditional payment brands. Should be interesting to track changes here though as it’s quite clear that Apple and Google will … Continue reading

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Strava’s Social Fitness Works You Harder

I’ve become a huge fan of Strava for tracking my cycling workouts as well as sharing and tracking friends and pros.  The data viz portion of Strava is really solid, easy to understand and actually quite robust.  I’ve been a … Continue reading

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Consider the user …

I know it’s obvious, but it’s amazing how some companies don’t take user experience into account when designing their products.  Take for example the bike route mapping sites MapMyRide and RidewithGPS … MapMyRide appears to be the market leader given … Continue reading

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Apple’s Post-PC BS

Apple’s claim that we are in the post-pc era is a load of garbage. This weekend I had the pleasure of updating our iOS household and it required a lot of tethering a lot of time and thanks to one … Continue reading

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Nokia the OEM

I’ve been tracking all the Nokia news the past days and while it’s impossible to argue that change was required, it seems that Nokia has actually folded considerably more than we’d all expected.  In exchange for access to Microsoft Windows … Continue reading

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Netflix looking to become the dial tone for on demand

it is going to take (more than) a few years to replace existing TV’s but as we eventually purchase connected sets, this could be quite a big deal. Way to think big, Netflix! This could make earning default status quite … Continue reading

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Good idea, poor execution Sprint

I just caught this ad in the latest Wired and since I’m the proud owner of a new Nexus S I was intrigued by the highlighted apps. The problem was when I went to get them … Instead of using … Continue reading

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html email rocks

html email rocks, originally uploaded by atmasphere. stellar job team.

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Offers are the new check-in

As an early adopter and enthusiast of check-in services i have mixed feelings about the latest move from Yelp to include offers. It seems like a must-have from their perspective given the attention, Facebook, Foursquare, SCVNGR and anyone else enabling … Continue reading

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Online TV Viewers Tolerate More Ads (and get paid)

The only thingI want to know is how much the panel gets paid to endure 16 MINUTES of ads during a 30 Minute show. Who are these people? I’m sure the groups were considered a great success … Viewers of … Continue reading

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10 Principles To Work By

Here’s a great list to start your week … In 1951, Dentsu’s president, Yoshida-san, came up with these ten principles. They ring true, six decades down the line. 1. Create work for yourself; don’t wait for work to be assigned … Continue reading

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Google TV’s Tough Sell

The WSJ has a report today about the challenge in selling GoogleTV to traditional players in the TV business. This should not come as a surprise to anyone given the long history of resistance to change from media companies in … Continue reading

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