March 2012
13 posts
WatchBrilliant Alzheimer’s campaign by Grupo Gallegos that takes advantage of the moment folks forget their site password to create empathy for people with Alzheimer’s.
February 2012
52 posts
Archival Wired Feature on Amazon.com 1998 →
“Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who...”
– Facebook spies on phone users’ text messages, report says | News.com.au
speaking of unsubscribes
Hard to believe that in 2012 some email marketers are still unfamiliar with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.
This morning I received a marketing/welcome email from believe.com, which describes itself as “a new faith-based content destination serving the Christian community, dedicated to helping Christians deepen their walk with the Lord as well as fellowship with other believers.”
Here’s the...
How H&M made its Google+ page No. 1 →
The Swedish clothing retail chain is in more than 500,000 people’s circles, more than any other brand. Pictures and videos got them there, experts say.
“We found out that as long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on,...”
– Unnamed Target Executive in How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis and demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who participated in the conversation. “My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for...
WatchF48 Hazzard (by FREITAG lab. ag)
Great stop-motion product video.
“I think work is the world’s greatest fun.”
– Thomas Edison via the New York Times
“When the medium is impersonal, people are prepared to be personal.”
– Why We Speak Freely on Social Networks
Why Twitter Ties Resemble Airline Hub Maps →
Twitter ties reflect the pattern of real world ties and real world hierarchies.
“It takes 26 hours for the average person to report a lost wallet. It takes 68...”
– via @matthewadavid
Coming soon to a shelf near you: The publishing... →
via @profstevefuller
“It’s time for app developers to take responsibility for ensuring that users know...”
– Jules Polonetsky, director of the Future of Privacy Forum | Mobile Apps Take Data Without Permission - NYTimes.com
“You can get tremendous mileage from Pinterest even without a following, which...”
– David Pogue, NYT | Reviewing Pinterest, the Newest Social Media Site
“In 1914 John Spedan Lewis laid the foundations for a different kind of business....”
– John Lewis and the search for happiness | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk
“The power of information is very important. If you don’t have the information...”
– Lauren Freedman at IRWD 2012 | E-retailers must recognize consumers’ desire for information - Internet Retailer
“Any news anchor reading celebrity tweets should wear a sign that reads, ‘I...”
– Cable’s Whitney Houston Coverage Was a Bumbling Intruder at a Wake — Vulture
“A person’s contacts are so sensitive that Alec Ross, a senior adviser on...”
– Anger for Path Social Network After Privacy Breach - NYTimes.com
The tone of life on social networking sites | Pew... →
Context-dependent Mobile Search Strategies from... →
Nearly 7 percent of all digital traffic in the U.S. is consumed away from computers. With the ever growing adoption of smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, non-computer traffic shows only signs of increasing. From searching, shopping, and communicating, the way people consume information on these devices varies greatly from their consumption on traditional web channels. Understanding...
“The number of ™ and © marks that appear in a product’s description tends...”
– Twitter / @dcurtis
How Pinterest Changed Website Design Forever |... →
“If you have to connect inputs and outputs too directly, you’re going to quickly...”
– Damien Kulash of OK Go
“In a way, we have all become such sandwich board men, walking the cyber-streets...”
– The Death of the Cyberflâneur, Evgeny Morozov in the New York Times
Expect more iPads in the hands of store associates →
7 common social media mistakes (and how to fix... →
1. Fail to show respect for others
2. Use sanitized corporate-speak
3. Shout buy, buy, buy
4. Build a social media following around one campaign
5. Forget to incorporate your brand into your social media engagement
6. Employ a college student who knows Facebook
7. Lack of transparency
Who Gives A Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content...
While microblog readers have a wide variety of reactions to the content they see, studies have tended to focus on extremes such as retweeting and unfollowing. To understand the broad continuum of reactions in-between, which are typically not shared publicly, we designed a website that collected the first large corpus of follower ratings on Twitter updates.
Using our dataset of over 43,000...