Archive for the 'Business' Category

Monetizing Twitter

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

General note: I started writing this solely based on a post in my feeds this morning. I don’t spend much time thinking how Twitter could make money, and having now looked at a number of other posts on the topic I realise there are quite a number of people (besides those who work at [...]

Part Of My Job Is To Become Irrelevant

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

I was IMing with Mr. Davis this morning and he asked me to bring some usability smack down to a Habari discussion on Google Groups. To whit (and wit) I responded:

me: Make it easy to use by everyone. Done and done.
mr. davis: Yeah, okay. If it was that easy, you wouldn’t have a [...]

A Loaf of Bread, A Container of Milk, And…

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Everyone, at some point, has walked into a grocery store and thought, “WTF was I supposed to be getting?” Some of you may have exclaimed it. I often do. Hence the strange looks.
It’s been years and years since grocery stores (and other kinds of stores too) started offering “shopping rewards” in exchange [...]

Holiday Sales… Already?

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Each year I hear people say, “Christmas is starting earlier and earlier.” I don’t really dig christmas too much and loathe the commercialism of the winter holidays (okay, most every holiday). I’ve already started to see Thanksgiving stuff showing up in stores and ads for Thanksgiving sales.
The day after Thanksgiving is colloquially called [...]