The Internet has changed how we decide what to buy. Today we’re all digital explorers. Marketing has evolved and modern marketing strategies have to evolve with the changing shape of shopping. A Modern Marketing Strategy – Social Media Marketing & ZMOT from Google.
the bad chemicals – Just Say No.
"Which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Any company that needs to have good software." VISIT LINK: Why Yahoo lost: In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture (tags: advertising blog business culture entrepreneurship fail google hacker history inspiration interesting internet microsoft media management lessons programming search software startup [...]
"I long have been fascinated by the extraordinary achievement from the ex-Paypal team and wonder about the reasons behind their success." VISIT LINK: Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? (tags: advice article blog business career cool culture entrepreneur entrepreneurship history inspiration management paypal startup productivity startups strategy tips success [...]
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It! VISIT LINK: Foursquare is an endless string of meaningless buzzwords we just couldn't bring ourselves to transcribe (tags: 2010 article critique culture facebook foursquare fun funny humor humour internet journalism media mobile network networking news nytimes satire social socialnetworking socialnetworks socialmedia technology twitter web [...]
Carbon Copies, by Nadine Jarvis. 240 pencils made from the carbon of human cremains, as memory for those left behind. The most clever touch are the pencils getting sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils. Hope it gets real sometime. VISIT LINK: Beautiful: When I die, [...]
"The iPad and iPhone are closed compared to personal computers, yes. But they are remarkably open compared to so many kinds of computing devices." VISIT LINK: The openness of the iPad and its impact on future computing generations (tags: apple article articles children computers culture development discussion education future ipad iphone open opensource programming table [...]
To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]
Conversations With An Anonymous Facebook Employee The Rumpus: Do you save everything ever entered into Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and so forth? Facebook Employee: That is essentially correct at this moment. Rumpus: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history? Employee: That’s [...]
Every day the same dream – brilliant! Every day the same dream (tags: business art cool culture flash games game animation life office webcomic interactive america videogame dream suicide jump brillant …)
Running the Numbers – An American Self-Portrait "Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that [...]
Umberto Eco – Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be [...]
Paris Syndrome leaves Japanese tourists in shock Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday. (tags: culture japan article france japanese paris psychology tourism shock funny …)
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View – An image-based essay Photos from Google Street View by artist Jon Rafman (tags: art internet photo google photography images culture photos image maps documentary privacy googlemaps streetview essay street googlestreetview jonrafman view netart …)
Why I based superheroes on Islam The creator of a bestselling comic designed to show the world the tolerant and peaceful face of Islam has written an open letter to his young sons explaining how the project grew out of 9/11. (tags: news art culture online world book international comics publishing islam religion bbc foreign [...]