Archive for the ‘Consumerism’ Category
How Goldman Sachs Investing in Facebook is Good For You
The announcement that Goldman Sachs invested $500 million in Facebook, giving it a market valuation of $50 billion sent ripples across the media. With this deal including Goldman helping Facebook to raise an additional $1.5 billion, and noting that Facebook has raised $800 million over five rounds of funding, it is official that social networking ...Read more.
Why You Should Opt-Out of the Internet Do Not Track Bill
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission took the first steps towards creating a Do Not Track feature to allow internet users to opt-out of having companies obtain data on their online surfing habits. This mechanism is being designed in the spirit of the Do Not Call registry that regulates the activities of telemarketers. On the surface ...Read more.
Instant: It Isn’t Just for Coffee Anymore, It’s Everywhere Online
This article was originally posted in the Huffington Post. Last week was the week of ‘instant.’ It began with the launch of Google Instant, which added a new evolution to online searches. And then almost instantly, we saw the birth of Google Instant : Maps, Google Instant: Images, YouTube Instant, Etsy Instant, iTunes Instant, and ...Read more.
AT&T is to iPhone What Ice Cream Trucks With No Air Conditioning are to Delivery in the Sahara Desert
AT&T sent a letter to customers yesterday that has lit the AT&T Facebook page up with hate mail. Lets start with the idiocy of AT&T talking at their customers about what they plan to do while ignoring the 3 year tsunami of complaints that we have lodged at them. We can end with the fact ...Read more.
Facebook Places: To Check In or Not to Check In
This article was originally published at Oxstein Labs. Facebook Places has been live for almost two weeks now. Have you tried it out? Do you plan to? Do you care? Only 19% of the worldwide cell phone market is smart phones and the word on the street is that Foursquare users are happy with Foursquare. ...Read more.
Group Buying is The New Black Thanks to Frugality
This article was originally posted at Oxstein Labs. There are many ways that consumers and companies are cashing in on the escalating frugality trend. This is a direct effect of the increasing use of both social networking platforms and of smart phone use. As the population continues to talk on the phone less and less, ...Read more.
iPhone 4 Launch: Apple Understands The Experience Economy
There are great articles all over the web about the amazing new features of the iPhone 4. There are also almost as many articles about the problems the iPhone 4 has. But what’s more interesting from a psychological perspective is how each new iPhone release ups the fanatic interest of more and more people. Last ...Read more.
