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Do you need a loyalty program? – Loyalty problems tend not to [...]
Did Your Mom Tell You Not To Talk To Strangers? Don’t Show Her FlyChat.
I sat down thinking I was going to write about how FlyChat, a new iPhone app, is kind of creepy. Then I realized it’s actually a lot like Twitter in some regards. And that’s not to say that Twitter isn’t creepy in some ways. But it’s an accepted form of creepy. FlyChat, however, isn’t just [...]
Avoid Mistakes With a Calculated Pause [Commmunication]
Gmail gives you five seconds to unsend an email. Unfortunately in real life, you can’t hit the undo button once you’ve verbalized your feelings. The key then, according to Harvard Business Blog, is to prevent the damaging message to begin with.
Photo by Clearly Ambiguous.
In order to prevent small and big gaffes alike, Harvard Business blogger [...]
Nearest Subway App Overlays Subway Directions On the Real World
If you’re anything like me whenever you pop up from the subway or metro you’re always lost. No matter where I am I can simply stick my head up like a grotesque and hairless badger and find myself in a brave new world, completely unsure of next steps.
Luckily, if you live in New York you [...]
UFC: "EA Doesn’t Give A **** About Mixed Martial Arts" [UFC]
UFC president Dana White has gone on an expletive-fuelled tirade against EA Sports, lashing out at not only the publishing powerhouse, but at any UFC fighter that agrees to appear in EA’s upcoming mixed martial arts title as well.
White (pictured) says that back in the early days of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, EA were dismissive [...]
TeachStreet Launches Payments Platform For Teachers
TeachStreet, a Yelp-like service for real world classes (cooking, dog obedience, music lessons, ballroom dance, foreign language, golf, yoga, etc.), is launching a marketplace feature for teachers to be able to coordinate payments from students. TeachStreet, which serves seven metropolitan areas in the U.S. including New York City, Silicon Valley/San Francisco and Seattle, allows instructors [...]
Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Responds with ‘The One Type of Gizmodo Blogger’ [Ouch]
Yesterday, I did a fun post describing the Seven Types of Employees You Meet at Best Buy, complete with illustrations by Dan Meth. And now, Best Buy has responded. And they’ve been spying on me.
You’ll find this guy on his couch, sporting an ironic t-shirt with a delivery-food stain of some kind. He “commuted” minutes [...]
From Tokyo: Demo of “almost finalized” augmented reality tagging app Sekai Camera (videos)
I attended the inaugural event of the AR Commons in Tokyo today, a new initiative that’s supposed to help set “standards of augmented reality as a public environment”. In other words, the symposium is an attempt to understand what augmented reality, the mixing of the real world with computer data, really is and what consequences [...]
