Category: Business
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Marketing, Monitoring, Mattering
USA Today ran an interesting front-page article on Monday about Marketers Take a Close Look at Your Daily Routines, detailing some of the ways and means that companies have employed to better understand the everyday use — and potential use — of their products. Much of the article focused on the monitoring tools and techniques…
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Work, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pleasure
I blogged a bit about Living Without A Goal recently and went down a path I didn’t originally anticipate, focusing on utility and value and appreciation in life. I’d intended to say more about James Ogilvy’s views on work, but once I was plumbing the depths of what makes life meaningful, valuable and worthwhile, I…
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Web-2-Mobile Business Plan Competition
I was surprised that Nokia was not among the sponsors of the recent Under the Radar Mobility Conference I attended, at which 32 entrepreneurs pitched their mobile products and services. A number of other major players in the mobile web space were represented at the event as sponsors and/or panelists, e.g., Motorola Ventures, Intel Capital,…
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Under the Radar Mobility Conference
I attended the IBDNetwork‘s Under the Radar Mobility Conference at the Microsoft Conference Center in Mountain View yesterday. Being rather new to the mobile technology space, it was an informative and enlightening experience for me, helping me better appreciate the challenges in creating successful mobile products and services. And although the presentations were informative, relatively…
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Great Customer Care from United Airlines and Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Yesterday morning, I was dismayed to hear the voicemail of the United Airlines‘ automated flight change notification service telling me my flight to San Francisco was cancelled. The message said I’d been rerouted, and would not arrive until much later in the day. I called United Reservations, but the human operator I finally got through…