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–> The NY Times article for creating habitual demand for products got the wheels spinning this weekend. The CPG companies are awesome at this to a point of scariness. I’m not even sure how I feel about the FeBreeze example and I’m surprised how forth coming the P&G team was around giving up that type [...]

The age old correspondence of how do people, in this case children, have time to do that? Generally in response to things rich, amazing web apps like Graffiti on Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. Riffing off Clay Shirky’s piece.
Children and Computers from The Media Lab(Stewart Brand, 1988)
“Kids like computers… I think it corresponds to children wanting [...]

Got into a good conversation today around thinking about the power of wordpress.com and the potential for tying together as a loosely inter-connected CMS that could be comparable to Yahoo! in the new era of the net.
I’m always fascinated by a property like Yahoo and their millions of uniques. This sheer scale coupled with [...]

Chris Brogan was nice enough to talk with me in a post entitled, American Express is OPEN around one of the projects that we are currently working on, The OPEN Forum Blog. It is always fun to see a project get interest and recognition among your peers. {Definitely beats traditional banner ads and behavioral targeting.} [...]

Looking for your feedback; what do you think of this 300X250 video execution?
It contains:
- a video player that redraws all six of the winning graffitis from the ReGeneration Contest. Currently runs on auto-play but could also be a click to play.
- At the top it pulls in the RSS feed from the latest post [...]

Via 37 signals:

- If communication can fail, it will.
- If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm.
- There is always somebody who knows better than you what you meant by your message.
- The more communication there is, the more difficult [...]