Jul 2 2009
What motivates customers to do this? Are customers always right? Really?
marco:
Normally I’d take the extra 30 seconds to pixelate someone’s last name and personal email address, but I don’t think someone who would send this email to a stranger about a free web service will mind.
Most of the emails I get are very nice, but occasionally one slips through that makes me question what, exactly, convinced someone that writing and sending it would be productive.
(For whatever it’s worth, here are my browser stats from the month before I started displaying the not-supporting-IE message.)
Jul 1 2009
Email snoopers on corporate networks are sniffing to see if groups of employees are engaging in illicit behaviors but it also seems to be a bit intrusive with false-positives.
Right now we’re in a situation where anything in email is pretty much fair game, how long until everything typed is fair game?
Digital networks and old networks, quite a difference and yet, both will surely live on.
Nevertheless, the old structures will not fall away soon. Indeed, Mr Serfaty argues that online networks can reinforce offline ones. A graduate of HEC (École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris) might use the school’s own website to look for any alumni working at, say, Google, he says. But using Viadeo’s tools, he can also do a broader search for anyone who attended HEC and knows someone working at Google, so the network becomes more powerful. Online networks make it easier to gather information on firms and their employees, argues Jean-Michel Caye, a specialist in human resources for the Boston Consulting Group in Paris. But if you want to influence a big decision or secure a job, he says, “it’s still the old networks that really count.”
Jun 29 2009
The luxury concept didn’t occur to Mr. Sharp for years, after he had built a couple of successful hotels and was asked by an English developer to construct a property in London; it ultimately opened in 1970. Mr. Sharp argued that the place should compete with Claridge’s and the Connaught and other elite, old-world hotels.
That part of the market seemed crowded to Mr. Sharp’s overlords, but he had been to those hotels and here’s what he noticed: They treated you like royalty only if they knew you.
“If they didn’t know you and you walked in with blue jeans a regular shirt, you wouldn’t even get the time of day,” he said. “That was the difference.”
The luxury hotel for everyone else — it could have been the corporate motto. Given Mr. Sharp’s eagerness to go head to head with British swells, you would assume that class resentment was a motivator here. After all, the guy’s dad grew up penniless in Oswiciem, Poland — known better as Auschwitz — and his parents arrived in Canada with next to nothing. But class resentment, he says, is not in his psychological makeup.
He simply saw a niche.
Jun 25 2009
What a stunning photo.
sangwonyoon:
yooniverse:
With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea. June 9, 1951. Maj. R.V. Spencer, UAF. (Navy)
Today 59 years ago, the Korean War broke out (South Koreans call the war 6.25). For more pictures take a look at this flickr set.
Marketers typically pay $20 to $40 per thousand viewers for a prime-time ad. On Hulu, which began offering shows to the public in March 2008, an ad on the animated series “The Simpsons” costs $60 per thousand viewers, Michael Nathanson, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. wrote in a June 18 report.
This is pretty much where things are going. TV is one part of mass audience, the web has a part of the dedicated audience.
Jun 24 2009
Consumers lie with their wallets.
“Students reserve seats in the library, check their grades and even pay for the washing machines in the dormitory with their mobile phones. The shift began in 2002, when the school authorities found that 98 out of every 100 students had mobile phones.”
Jun 23 2009
We’re in a recession, our online properties aren’t making nearly enough money as our print fortunes meltdown, Google drives so much traffic that we love/hate them. This is how Forbes is dealing with Google incoming traffic.
Someone has a plan, this can’t be easy.
