Category Archives: Business

A question of eyeballs

The new facebook has been getting its usual level of pushback for its new interface design.  One of the more interesting, if not stark, comments that appeared on my feed was the following:   Is it a coincidence that facebook becomes more like myspace right when google+ becomes available?   The short answer: No.  The [...]
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The Problem with Streaming

Last night,  on a whim, I decided I was going to log into my Netflix account and bum around watching movies.  This turned into a functional nightmare.  I spent an hour trying to find a film that I would like to see, and ended up being stymied time and time again by the lack of [...]
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The Face of Age In the Technology Community

Before I begin writing- let’s just say I’m in the process of organizing peices of my life in a POSITIVE way.  It is giving me a bit of writer’s block.  I hope the writer’s block will pass soon as life comes to ahead for certain outside issues. Meanwhile, back on the ranch, I was recently [...]
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The Price of Medicine in the Internet Age

While applying to a job over the past  week (I believe it ZocDoc), I found that I was hit with an interesting idea. What happens when we review all doctors on the internet, because we’ve moved to a completely electronic medical data system? Someone I know hit upon the following book, “The Price of Everything,” [...]
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Economies of Networks

Because I am really tired of hearing the same arguments about is something overvalued, is something undervalued, will something succeed on the internet. Things on the internet, at some point, work the following way: You fill some niche, people come to you, they pay/fill some goal that leads to some cash, you expand out of [...]
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The Importance of the NLRB/Facebook Case

Since this has yet to be picked up by lots of people (for I enjoy reading the news late at night) The National Labor Relations Board is pursuing a case of an employee being fired because she complained about her job on Facebook.  It has a rule that any worker may talk about their work [...]
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Data Wars

If you haven’t heard the news- Google is getting rid of the ability to get your contacts imported into secondary web applications unless reciprocral data is shared back to Google.  This hurts Facebook the most, as it is the largest user of said data. (Primarily from your email) Some sigifigant points to be made here: 1) Despite [...]
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Sometimes, get a friend to review a product

So, the last big player of last months (Gasp!) New York Tech meetup just came back from San Diego, Comixology.  Interestingly, so did my friend.  He’s in the middle of selling off all of his old school stock of his (now closed *sob*) comic book store at Comic-Con San Diego!  (hence the San Diego Connection) [...]
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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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