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  • Christmas Shopping 2.0 and Riya

    A little tidbit I picked up from a fellow at Riya. They will be announcing Riya 2.0 in the next few days which will take their face-recognition know how and apply to finding similar things when out shopping. He pointed to the rather ornate carpet on which we were standing and said that Riya would…

  • Reuters opens up bureau in Second Life

    Reuters opens up bureau in Second Life

    Can taxation be far behind?

  • What I learned about Direct Marketing

    I had two hours to spare yesterday to make it over to SES just down the road from my office. I was not able to attend any of the sessions so I did a quick loop ’round the trade show floor, met a few folks (including the guy on the left who was looking for…

  • Why I cancelled my Bank of America Visa card

    Despite the fact that I’ve got more pieces of plastic than I really need it really irks me that in order to activate the new card B of A sent me I have to listen to a two-minute spiel about why I really should consider signing up for a credit protection service. No option to…

  • The Power of the Web

    TechCrunch covers Teambuy.com.cn, a "group buying" site based in China, co-ordinate large numbers of consumers interested in buying the same products. People agree on a place and time to meet, then enter the store in crowds of up to 500 people at once. The crowds tell the store owners that they all want to buy,…

  • nikeplus.com, a social network of iPod-enabled runners

    Apple & Nike launched a new joint service that combines a wireless sensor that you put in your running shoes that uploads pace and distance data to your iPod Nano which you listen to while you run. After your run, you can sync with your nikeplus.com account and share your stats with other nikeplus.com members.…

  • Micropayments

    I attended the HBSTech event on the Evolution and Future of Micropayments last evening in Mountain View. Presenting were: Preston Roper, VP of Marketing, BitPass James Hall, co-founder of FTVentures, a fund with deep experience in micropayments  Peter Ashley, Director of Merchant Services, PayPal KC George, Manager of Product Innovation & Coordination, Visa USA The…

  • Is it cool to be accessible?

    Two posts that came together on the same riff but from different angles. Do communities scale? First Danah Boyd on “coolness” “Coolness” is about structural barriers, about the lack of universal accessibility or parsability. Structural hurdles mean people put in more effort to participate. It’s kinda like the adventure of tracking down the right parking…

  • The Intention Economy – Pulling Demand from the Edge

    I’m distilling my takeaways from this week’s eTech conference at, of all places, Disneyland. The vacation schedule of my son’s school afforded us a long weekend down here to the land of characters in big, overstuffed heads. In such a commerce-driven atmosphere, you really begin to appreciate all the different ways that a machine like…