We read in TechCrunch this morning that Facebook is paying people $25 (in VISA gift card form) to come to their offices and provide feedback on their site. Their method of recruiting is Craig’s List, that venerable institution of classifieds fame. This method of recruiting can be effective if you’re Facebook — after all, who [...]
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Fun With Used Gadget Put Options … Hunh?
January 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Other Markets
A friend sends this link from Wired: Pre-Sell Your Gadget Before You Get Tired of It. This brief article discusses a new company called TechForward. TechForward is a fascinating little company that sells you the right to sell them a gadget you’ve just purchased, at an agreed price at a specific time in the future. [...]
Tags:eBay·TechForward·USD
Paging Dr. Bordeaux
January 9th, 2008 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets, Information Design, Market Definitions, Wine Markets
It may be an often overlooked (if unremarkable) fact that search engines must conform to the properties of the thing that is being searched for. Searching for a web page is different from searching for an airline flight, is different from searching for a book, is different from searching for a bottle of wine. The [...]
Tags:airline·airline flight·Bordeaux·doctor search·goods search·Paging·people designing search engines·Search engine·Search goods·USD
YooNew On TechCrunch
January 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Prediction Markets, Usability
Yoonew is a fascinating little site. They are a futures market for event tickets, and the main focus right now is on the Super Bowl. I think you have to be a little nuts to drop $300 or so on the possibility that your team could make it to the Big Game, but I’m sure [...]
Margins From Amazon, With Love (aka. What Is “Margin”?)
January 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · Market Definitions, Other Markets, Usability
Today’s NY Times has this piece in the Business section: Put Buyers First? What a Concept. In many ways it is a typical focusing-on-the-customer -experience-makes-for-better-business story. It seems almost passe in the UX world to cite these things – there are many examples, from Apple to Zappos – but it is a good story. First, [...]
Tags:Bill Miller·Jeff Bezos·Joe Nocera·Love·USD·Wal-Mart·Wall Street
UM’s Free Education Edition
January 4th, 2008 · Comments Off · Fun
Compliments of a friend … The Personal MBA Manifesto Mastering Business Through Self-Education 2007 Edition: Revised and Updated by Josh Kaufman Business schools don’t have a monopoly on worldly wisdom. If you’re serious about learning advanced business principles, the Personal MBA can help. The Personal MBA recommended reading list is the tangible result of hundreds [...]
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Lazy Blogger’s Lazy Christmas Week Post
December 27th, 2007 · Comments Off · Lazy Blogger Blog Post, Other Markets
The stories that have captivated me this week (and yes, I couldn’t help myself and post at least once in the off-week): – Strange company in Eve-Online (Discussion about the how corporations in the fantasy world, EVE Online, are like, or different from, real world corporations … which begs the question: why would anyone join [...]
Do Traders Read About Economics? (or the Poetry of Alexander Pope?)
December 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Financial Markets, Market Definitions
Frankly, I don’t know, but one has to wonder if the risk managers at Morgan Stanley do. For those who don’t follow these fascinating little stories, I’ll back up. Morgan Stanley is one of a number of investment banks that have reported mind-numbingly huge ($9.4 billion!) losses due to bad bets on sub-prime mortgage based [...]
Tags:Morgan Stanley·USD·Wall Street
Walk-In Clinics … Better than the ER
December 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Healthcare Markets, Usability
The FT reports that there is an “explosion” in the number of walk-in clinics in the US, with patient demand being the primary driver for the increase. For those of you who don’t know, a walk-in clinic is a place to get basic health care for about $50 or so. They are generally staffed by [...]
Tags:health care services·retail pharmacies·United States·USD·Wal-Mart
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