Two weeks ago I test drove a beautiful new car and bought it the same night, doing only about 20 minutes of research that very night. Oh, and I saved $1300+ off the dealer's "best price." Here's how I did …
February 15, 2012 | Posted in Business
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Two weeks ago I test drove a beautiful new car and bought it the same night, doing only about 20 minutes of research that very night. Oh, and I saved $1300+ off the dealer's "best price." Here's how I did …
February 15, 2012 | Posted in Business
Based on the recent changes to the website and iPhone app, here's the direction I see Twitter heading in 2012: Tweets older than five minutes are automatically deleted. It's all about real-time, baby! Twitter Search will go away completely. Yet …
December 30, 2011 | Posted in Companies In Trouble
Here's an idea which I think is great but really don't have time (motivation) to implement. The trouble with social networks today is that they are centrally-controlled by a single organization, which means every user must put all of their …
December 29, 2011 | Posted in Disruption, Things That Would Be Great
I like what Microsoft is doing with Windows 8 and I look forward to using it on a tablet. A lot of apps are going to come out for it and a lot of developers will become very rich. The …
September 17, 2011 | Posted in Disruption, Microsoft, User Interfaces
The App Store has always confused me. Browsing apps today seems more like browsing the yellow pages. For users to get the best experience, they should be able to look around in a more immersive interface, without so much text. …
August 31, 2011 | Posted in Apple
Last month, Apple demoed iOS 5 at the WWDC keynote address. I made a list of predictions beforehand—let's score 'em, and make a few more since Apple predictions generate some serious traffic. Notifications: We did indeed see a revamp here. …
July 7, 2011 | Posted in Apple
Newspapers such as my local Omaha World Herald are starting to experiment with paywalls. The basic premise is that print subscribers get free online access, while everyone else needs to pay $10/month for access. This raises a number of questions …
July 1, 2011 | Posted in Disruption
Conan O'Brien: My next guest tonight is a blogger, activist, author, fashion icon and self-described celeBROtante, whatever that means. Please give it up for Gavin Koehler! Audience: [raucous applause] Gavin: [walks out from behind curtain wearing Jay Leno mask, bobbing …
June 30, 2011 | Posted in Conan O'Brien Fan Fiction
At WWDC, one of the slides indicated that iOS had a much larger market share than Android, and another slide showed that there were much more iPhone devices out there than Android. This was met with a lukewarm applause by …
June 28, 2011 | Posted in Apple, Things That Would Be Great
Yahoo has been flailing for quite a while now in the traffic numbers and they are having problems focusing. Google stole their search and advertising traffic, Facebook is de facto home of social connections, both are stealing their best employees …
June 27, 2011 | Posted in Companies In Trouble