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Entries from April 7th, 2008

Digital Agency Sites Suck

April 7th, 2008 2 Comments

When a quick-witted VP at Forrester was once asked why Forrester’s website is so awful, despite us having a multi-million dollar business in helping clients with their sites, the VP said: “the cobbler’s kids always have the worst shoes.” But should this be true of firms that actually make web sites?
For a few years [...]

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Defining “young consumers” :: clichéd subcultures

April 4th, 2008 2 Comments

When we talk about “Generation Y” or “young consumers” what do we really mean? Are we referring to just one segment? No, we’re grouping together a set of subcultures.
Young people are always very, very different from each other. Now more then ever.
Emo, Goth, Hipster, Prep, are cliched, but sometimes necessary ways to reference youth subcultures. [...]

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Web radio: it’s all about proliferation

April 2nd, 2008 No Comments

There have been a few awesome Web-only radio services to explode in popularity lately. Probably the two biggest are Last.fm and Pandora. But neither does a very good job of spreading their services “viraly” by allowing open aggregation of playlists and stations.
Last.fm’s facebook app focuses on showcasing your compatibility with friends’ musical tastes. And Pandora [...]

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