March 2010
14 posts
WatchRevealing Design Treasures from The Amazon (Tip of the Hat to Putorti)
Sheraton "Make a Green Choice" Program
I stayed at a Sheraton last week for the Kelsey Marketplace Conference, and I stumbled on an interesting green program.
Hotels have been trying to figure out how to go green in recent years. A famous study placed cards in rooms telling people that the majority of other guests were reusing their towels so they should too — this would save detergent and water. This process yielded a...
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education”
– Mark Twain (via Rework, my current reading)
“Ultimately, I decided to commit $1 billion to the Peter G. Peterson...”
– Pete Peterson (founder of Blackstone), whose book I’m reading now
Audio Podcast: Panel of Young Entrepreneurs at...
“You can’t change the past, but every day is an opportunity to rewrite your...”
– Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com
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WatchInteresting insights about how implementing gaming elements into the real world and online applications increases enjoyment and adoption.
I’ve always wondered why companies don’t implement point systems in a more fun way — imagine you got points from American Airlines or Jetblue for simply traveling certain routes and then you get badges for completing a series of trips.
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Seth Godin on Self-Determinism →
“today at Yale. As I drove through the amazingly beautiful campus, I passed the center for Asian Studies. It reminded me of my days as an undergrad (at a lesser school, natch), browsing through the catalog, realizing I could learn whatever I wanted…The best part of college is that you could become whatever you wanted to become, but most people just do what they think they must.”
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Amazon Pricing Scheme: E-books and Old-books
Pricing strategy fascinates me because when you look at a menu of prices, you are seeing a story. The question is, “what is the author trying to saying in this story?”
The New York Times yesterday dissected the economics of book publishing in digital and print. The list price is what publishers want the public to think a book should cost, but there is a wholesale price booksellers...