February 2012
10 posts
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“What’s holding back mobile ad spending is the almost caveman like belief...”
– — Jeffrey Dachis
What’s Holding Back Mobile-Ad Spending? | Digital - Advertising Age
Hmmm. Something worth thinking about.
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The “Galapagos effect” in Japan
Fantastic Japanese denim & neo-French style pastries are great and everything but the Economist smartly points out the Japanese electronic manufactures are hemorrhaging money.
$17 billion in fiscal 2011 losses for Sony, Panasonic & Sharp? With no Japanese manufacturer seems capable of making a profitable LCD TV nor a globally competitive cell phone, it’s sad times for that...
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The headline, the tweet, and the unfair... →
By far one of the best things I’ve read in the past week. Jay Caspian Kang had a bit of a different childhood than what I experienced but an outstanding essay about the state of the current issues facing Asian Americans. It’s a good place and a weird place.
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Why Are Harvard Graduates in the Mailroom? -... →
In their book “Freakonomics,” Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt explain, among other things, the odd economic behavior that guides many drug dealers. In one gang they described, the typical street-corner guy made less than minimum wage but still worked extremely hard in hopes of some day becoming one of the few wildly rich kingpins. This behavior isn’t isolated to illegal activity. There...
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Freemium Games
There is a lot to explore here and I like EA’s freemium push with the Simpsons. A nice proof point showing how it works with Temple Run:
Right before we switched it to free in September, we had a couple hundred downloads/day at 99 cents, with some in-app purchase sales. After switching it to free and settling at No. 100 Top Free app, we had about 50,000 daily downloads, and a whole lot...
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Is Tokyo the best place on earth for food, denim &...
For decades, Japan simply imported the wares of foreign cultures, but recession has led to invention. The country has begun creating the finest American denim, French cuisine and Italian espresso in the world. Now is the time to visit.
Made Better in Japan - WSJ.com
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Born or Raised In the U.S., Why Are Entrepreneurs... →
It’s funny, the story really doesn’t address the question with a well defined answer but it doesn’t really matter. The beauty of the story is the amount of hustle by the Korean-Americans & internationally minded Korean nationals trying to reconquer the old-school Chaebol powered Korea.
If it means sleeping on a futon next to your desk for a year to win then so be it....
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“SOME parents give their children cakes. A few give them cake shops. The hot...”
– Bakers and chaebol in South Korea: Let them eat cake | The Economist
This in a nutshell defines Korea’s chaebol problem.
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“The Asian woman speaking in this video would be no different than him having a...”
– — The Rev. Charles Williams II of Detroit’s King Solomon Baptist church
Pete Hoekstra Ad Draws More Criticism, Called ‘Really, Really Dumb’
Pretty much dead on.
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Facebook Files for an I.P.O. - NYTimes.com →
And a new era begins. The publicly traded social networking company.