I have always been a sports nut. Growing up, I wouldn’t go to bed without first calling the Washington Post’s automated sports hotline for ‘current’ sports scores (delayed by 15-30 minutes); and over breakfast, I’d …
Read the full story »Here is Amazon’s homepage – aggressively positioning the Kindle Fire HD against the forthcoming iPad Mini. It compares pixels, speakers, and video quality… but what will really matter to consumers: the price. (Of course Apple …
I still believe this experience is magical. And as I’ve written before, I still believe the power of Siri (or Google Voice, Microsoft sync, etc) is dictation.
The power of pricing:
“Wednesday was the $199 Kindle Fire HD’s biggest day of sales since launch and up 3x week over week” – AllThingsD
I really like this Google+ implementation. When you hover over the + button (alongside other sharing units like Facebook and Twitter), it expands to show related Google+ content. Slick UI and relatively unintrusive experience. And …
I have written before about the value of Facebook’s homepage for logged out users: both from a promotional (huge lift for Facebook; both Facebook + Twitter do it) and advertising perspective (eBay example).
I love this: Siri driving Twitter, Facebook, etc (I had written about the desire to do this when Siri first arrived).
I have written glowingly about Quora and Twitter’s weekly digest emails. Well here is another good one from Twitter that is beautifully put together: “Ryan Spoon, we found some people you may know”. I love …
I have written about Facebook’s AppCenter before and how it represents the focus on mobile and on Facebook’s platform… and opens up a monetizable, interaction beyond “Like”: “Install”. (And by the way: you could easily …
I have written before about Google / Google Plus and their interactive, actionable ad units (here is a great example from Google Offers and one for Google’s emailable ads here).
Below is a screenshot from Facebook’s new Gifts product. It is not yet publicly usable – but gifts are appearing in the wild from early users (see below). Two interesting points per the feed graphic:
25 billion app downloads. That’s the big number & achievement that Google Play is celebrating. And to celebrate, Google is delivering popular paid apps for the very-discounted price of $0.25. Note: popular movies are $4.99, …
An example of the potential power of Apple’s new Passbook for:
Brands (here Dunkin Donuts)
Platforms (here Facebook / Facebook Offers)
Consumers (simplicity, speed)
