Archive for the 'messaging' Category
(This is the first in a two part post. Part one contains a profile of a startup. Part two contains numbers and analysis related to that startup.)
Mobile Spinach is a small and ambitious Bay Area startup focused on the mobile coupon space. The company is still at a very early stage — seed funded [...]
The Price of Happiness: 10¢
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a self-described “marketplace for work.” The service lets you outsource tasks to a decentralized, on-demand, scalable workforce made up of thousands of Mechanical Turk Workers. The tasks are appropriately named Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) because the service is designed for repetitive tasks that can’t be done by a computer because they [...]
I recently saw a Dove advertisement on Hulu which compared dove soap to normal soap:
If you could see the difference, you’d see soap leaves an invisible layer of scum on your skin… Dove leaves no soap scum
Then, the scene suddenly switches to ultraviolet-murder-scene-lighting to reveals a woman covered with soap scum. The ad labels it [...]
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Jonathan Wegener is a technology & marketing enthusiast living in Brooklyn. Jonathan was once told in an interview that he "thinks too much." He didn't get the job. But it was the greatest compliment he's ever received.
This blog focuses on technology, business/marketing strategy, and startups. Number crunching and back of the envelope calculations are emphasized.
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