February 2012
2 posts
Fab Isn’t an Ecommerce Company; It’s a Content... →
I’m definitely bookmarking this article for future reference. The story of Fab.com really shows the value of content marketing and the importance of storytelling in brand development. I’ve often heard people think branding is nothing more than colours and logos, but its more about the customer’s lifestyle (actual or wanted) in relation to the product or service. Fab’s...
Buffalo Wild Wings testing Apple's iPad for... →
Ok, first of all I didn’t know there was a Buffalo Wild Wings in Toronto - I need to check this out. Especially since its the testing ground for customers to use iPads for ordering wings and drinks, and then swiping a credit card to finish it all off.
If you’ve ever been to a busy BWW, you know how long it can take just to get the menu and order. I can imagine this cutting off a lot...
January 2012
8 posts
Luc Levesque: How to help new employees be... →
luclevesque:
We all have our quirks. I know I do.
Typically it takes months and years sometimes to learn all of our bosses quirks. What they like, what annoys them and ( most importantly ) how they uniquely define a rockstar top performer.
Typically, we stumble our way towards discovering what our bosses…
Newsweek: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His... →
Great article, recommended reading.
newsweek:
Presenting the first three paragraphs of Andrew Sullivan’s epic takedown of President Barack Obama’s critics, on newsstands & online today.
You hear it everywhere. Democrats are disappointed in the president. Independents have soured even more. Republicans have worked themselves up into an…
“Mitt Romney is now blaming Barack Obama for not fixing an economy wrecked by the...”
– John Fugelsang (via kateoplis)
clientsfromhell:
Client: Can you just get rid of this here?
Me: The Lorum Ipsum?
Client: Yeah, just fill it with dummy text that doesn’t mean anything.
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
5 posts
Ford Releases New Campaign Slogans in Wake of... →
Top: campaign sign by Marc Lostracco. Bottom: campaign sticker by Matt Elliott.
It’s never too early to start campaigning. Toronto’s next municipal election may be a few years…
The secret payload of the iPhone 4S: Bluetooth 4.0 →
People have paid a lot of attention to two new features that arrived in the iPhone 4S: The much-improved camera and Siri, the new voice-powered digital assistant. But the 4S also snuck…
Jotly →
Verbifying nouns used to be reserved for the pretentious percentage of the population with multiple seasonal homes, but it isn’t anymore. Now you can Google it and Facebook it and Yelp it and…
Sprint Ad on Back Cover of the New Issue of... →
Perfect.
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Benchmarking the iOS 5 update →
Sure, there are plenty of new features with iOS 5, but at what cost? Sometimes, the cost for software updates comes in the form of degraded performance of day-to-day core features that you may…
August 2011
6 posts
Daily iPad app: Converse →
Shared by Erik
Universal Translator, here we come!
A few weeks ago I wrote about tips while traveling with your iPad. Today I want to tell you about an app that might be useful for those…
OnStage: An App for Collaborative Email Design →
Sometimes the hardest part of getting an email campaign sent out isn’t the writing, or designing, it’s getting your boss and colleagues to give you the go ahead to send. After painstakingly creating…
AdWords Performance Grader: A Nice New Tool From... →
Part of the fun of PPC management is that it’s as much art as it is science. However, understanding the intricate relationships between various elements of your account requires both experience and…
HTTPS Everywhere Now Supports Secure Browsing on... →
Firefox: Firefox extension HTTPS everywhere, which switches your browser to SSL automatically for any web sites where a secure connection is available, just hit version 1.0 and now…
July 2011
7 posts
“America is the only country in the world that has the luxury of creating an...”
– Elvin Lim (via kateoplis)
Domino's Ramping Up the Social →
You can’t help but be impressed with Domino’s total turnaround after those embarrassing YouTube videos back in 2009. They not only faced the challenges head on, but they’re blazing a trail for other companies to learn from and follow (preferably without the gaffe).
Sending people video clips of their tweets being shown in Time Square is a brilliant move and sure to spark lots of...
Making Desktop Webapps in Lion – Andy... →
The Bacon Uprising: How China's Top-Secret... →
Shared by Erik
A “strategic pork reserve”?!
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: The Chinese middle class is eating more and more meat, and Beijing wants to keep prices low. That…
Microsoft adCenter Radius Targeting is a GO! →
Microsoft has been releasing updates for weeks regarding upcoming mobile advertising upgrades to their adCenter interface, and one of them has finally launched! As of this week, account managers…
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Paradox of Plans
Plans are a paradox. On the one hand we have “Failing to plan is planning to fail”. And on the other side we have 37Signals atriculating plans are just guesses.
Both are correct. A business jumping into Twitter or Facebook without a plan could lead to utter chaos, or worse a PR blunder of nightmare proportions. But a business spending months and months planning to get onto Facebook,...
June 2011
5 posts
Woohoo, a brand new Tumblr app for iPhone, and it’s looking good!
Video: Ducati and Puma partner up for "Lean In and... →
Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Motorcycle
Ducati and Puma Lean in and Ride series - Click above to watch videos after the jump
Long before we ever threw a leg over…
Seven Months Flashless →
Shadoe Huard: It has been 7 months since I’ve followed John Gruber’s advice
and abandoned Adobe Flash. Put simply, the experience has
positively affected almost every facet of using my…
Don’t tie your marketers hands and expect great... →
Well, that pretty much sums it up
newsweek:
Zoosk, the online dating site, asked 5,000 singles how they’d feel about receiving unexpected lewd photos.
61% of gals said “creepy”; 71% of dudes said “sexy.”
And there you have it, folks.
May 2011
6 posts
The War on Drugs v. the Constitution →
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a lonely 8-1 dissent: How “secure” do our homes remain if police, armed with no
warrant, can pound on doors at will and, on hearing sounds
indicative of things moving,…
Man uses Prey to track stolen MacBook Pro hundreds... →
Here’s an incredible story of how author Sean Power retrieved his stolen 17” MacBook Pro from 800km away, using Prey and Twitter.
Sean’s bag containing his laptop, some money and other…
10 Myths About Introverts →
chrisbowler:
Finally, an article on this subject that had me nodding my head.
Amen
Google Allows Carriers to Selectively Block... →
Insert your own “open” joke here.
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Smartphones Remaking the Way Men Work and Live →
Smartphones are getting men to do what their women have unsuccessfully tried for years: use a map and make them feel more confident. Those are some of the ways that smartphones are remaking…
April 2011
2 posts
Mercedes-Benz Concept A-Class hatches ahead of New... →
Filed under: Concept Cars, New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Shanghai Motor Show
Mercedes-Benz A-Class Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery
Nearly…
Twitter Arms Marketers With More Tools to Target... →
Twitter is arming marketers with more tools to help them target users with a new followers dashboard and the ability to aim messages at specific locations. The changes, while not…
March 2011
8 posts
Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE... →
kateoplis:
Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing — the Mark 1 — was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident. Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would...
clientsfromhell:
“How do you spell HTML?”
Mobile Opportunity: What's really wrong with... →
igrigorik: if you are into mobile.. must read: What’s really wrong with BlackBerry @ http://j.mp/e74dOo (including comments)
(via Instapaper)
What Is a Dickbar? →
Dave Winer: Being from the East Coast, as I am, I recognize the term “dickbar”
as an eastcoastism. It refers to a new feature in Twitter for
the iPhone which brings the first instream…