Retail Video Games
I hate discs and especially video game discs. They scratch easily and I loose them. All of the consoles only have a single disc slot so switching games always involved ejecting and swapping discs. Even worst if you have a problem with your console and the disc doesn’t eject properly…
“Forget the Wi-Fi, 6 GB is enough for all your needs”
Rogers Wireless has a launched a new “Super 6G Plan” that is sort of based on the now in-famous 6GB plan that was available when the iPhone launched. The plan lists the following benefits:
The problem is Robocalls…
In Canada we’ve been experiencing a fairly large scandal involving Robocalls to Canadians surrounding the 2011 election. I’ve been frustrated with Robocalls for several years and the lack of regulation by the CRTC. A few years ago I kept getting Robocalls from a collection agency ( trying to reach someone named Brandi ) and recently […]
Good Product Management RIM’s Saviour?
Mike Mace has an excellent analysis of the challenges that RIM is facing. My favourite quote is: “The fault lies not in our ties, but in our selves. In my opinion, RIM’s real problems center around two big issues: its market is saturating, and it seems to have lost the ability to create great products. […]
The New New Facebook Profile
Here we go again… Facebook has changed the profile page again and decided to roll it out on 60 minutes tonight. The profile will be rolled out slowly to users but you can get it immediately by going here. The changes are mostly minor with Facbeook but the most note-able visual change being the replacement […]
New Facebook Promotion Rules
Promotions on Facebook have been a little controversial over the past few years with Facebook requesting a minimum ad buy to approve the promotion and imposing restrictive rules. In many cases this has just served to encourage promotions without Facebook approval but always with the risk of removal or early termination. Facebook has changed all […]
The Legality of Groupon?
Groupon has really taken off in Canada. I think mainly because many popular restaurants have been available as Groupons and that has driven alot of adoption. One of my favourite restaurants, Utopia Cafe sold almost 1500 Groupons during their promotion. Today’s Groupon is for the very popular Table 17 Restaurant If you’re not familar with […]
The Problem with Facebook Groups…
Yesterday Facebook launched an upgrade to the Facebook Group functionality, the details of the new features are available here. I think the more interesting thing is what is missing, the mainly one being the ability for groups to choose their own relationship and communication style. There is still no good way to maintain a […]
Marketing with Facebook Search
For most marketing search engine marketing is a common marketing technique and entire business united have been established to focus on search. The most popular tool being Google and in a distant second the Microsoft Bing/live tools. Facebook search on the other hand is a much different beast and much more difficult to market against. […]
Facebook Page Performance Metrics
Since Facebook launched Facebook Pages in 2007 alot clients have asked how their page is performing. Sysomos provides tools for measuring and comparing brand performance among across social media and yesterday released a report on Facebook Pages here: http://www.sysomos.com/insidefacebook/ The report includes the Top 5 pages in each of the Facebook Page categories and includes […]
Ebay and Black Friday
Ebay has released a very cool map/video of Black Friday transactions on their website, you can see it here: http://www.ebayholiday.com/black-friday If your not familar with Black Friday, its a mainly US phenomia where retailers enter into the “Black” for the year with the beginning of the Christmas holiday shopping. Most retailers offer significant discounts to […]
Facebook Roadmap
Facebook revealed their roadmap yesterday and it includes a number of changes for developers. Inside Facebook has a create summer here. I think the biggest change is the consolidation of communications into the Facebook inbox. Facebook Invites and Notifications are going away and communication will be divided into Inbox communication and Email. It looks like […]
Facebook Changes with LiveFeed Addition
Facebook released some interface changes last night. They appear to be: New Group Page design with Tab Interface and strong wall presence. This makes groups now very similar to Facebook Pages. Addition of a LiveFeed option to the Homepage. This works similar to the Newsfeed but doesn’t allow the same type of content filtering and […]
The Power of Real-Time Search
For years now Google has dominated the search marketing field. Its Pagerank algorithm attempts to find content that is the most relevant to the keywords being search. In most cases this means placing a greater emphasis on older more established content and ignoring the newer content. This has worked well for most content types except […]
One Degree no more…
One Degree announced yesterday that they are stopping production on their site. I’ve been a long time reading and even contributed some articles a few years ago and it looks like they’re committing to keeping the site up as an archive for now. I’d really like to thank Kate and Rose for all the time […]