Monthly Archives: July 2010

Conde and McKinsey, you still suck

McKinsey finally finished up their overview of all things Conde. And they missed the mark, totally, about falling revenue in the print editions. Lets go into why.  There are a bunch of very cool bloggers cutting deep into sharing content about what is slylish, literary-ish, cool, whatnot.  We can move on and slowly Ignore Conde [...]
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On the Internet we all know…

I happened to stop into a tweetup last night.  Happenchance (really happenchance) I ran into an old friend of mine, BZ (BenZion in case you all are curious), a phd History Candidate at Ohio State, in for the summer to do some more phd thesis writing.  He’s been an active blogger on a number of [...]
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A study in Contrasts

From the New York Tech meetup, Jetsetter and Stuffbuff are a study in contrasts. Jetsetter is the travel emails/section of Gilt Groupe.  They tract purchases, clickthrough, types of photos, everything.  And it is an up front purchase and an experience they control.  They choose lux places, they control the prices, the photos, everything.  it looks [...]
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Some websites are actually impossible to judge

Dear All,   There is a website category  out there that is impossible to judge.  This category: Dating websites.  For someone out there, even the most craptastic dating website is perfect.  Even the worst dating website probably caused a couple or two, who are out there, happy.  For them, it was perfect, a match made [...]
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The end is near- (or not)

So, while in the middle of taking a look at all things New York Tech Meetup (even if this requires admitting to myself that I am single, gawd), one of the realities of All Things Social Media has taken on reality. It’s name is Hot Potato.  It reminds you of that game, Hot Potato, that [...]
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On Sam Lessin and Email

Sam Lessin, of Drop.Io fame and fortune,  has built on top of drop.io (if I had to guess) a service that allows you to charge to send emails.  Sam’s a smart guy.  One of the few in NY who I can honestly say is well thought out.  We’re in a minor disagreement over a very [...]
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Oh The Lateness for the #NYTM

And I lost the first version too.   Inexcusable.  It didn’t help that I was burnt out and sick either.   The June NYTM everyone:   SnackSquare- They track your checkins.  And then they send you the possibilities for coupons if you checkin somewhere near by.  Umm- this is SMS spam.  A very new kind [...]
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