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Who would have guessed: Spending incentives drive spending!
In the spirit of the holiday season here in the US, this article from the Wall Street Journal seems particularly appropriate: In many cases, rewards enticed people whose cards were dormant to start spending…[and] even small rewards can prompt people to spend more. This useful study backs up the old management consulting adage of “you [...]
Tethering Saved My Sanity
A recent WSJ article (may require registration) brings more attention to a lesser-known capability of cellphones: connecting your phone to a computer as a USB modem to gain access to the Internet, a.k.a. tethering. This feature was critical to me in a fairly common setting in the consulting life: having spotty or no Internet access [...]
What’s Wolfram Alpha for?
What is Wolfram Alpha good for, and how would you use it? What should we look for in the future?
The App Store “Gatekeeper” – Arbiter or Observer?
Before we explore this idea further, I’d like to point out that Apple’s App Store is unique as an entity, but hardly any different from Handango or BPlay. These portals which supported many mobile devices and PDAs aggregated downloadable software offerings for users to load onto their (sometimes, at the time) connected devices. With this [...]
Access Control and Social Networking Applications
There’s been some articles over the past few years about this, but I’m surprised that it hasn’t become a more hot-button issue for people. It seems that people simply use different applications for different purposes (using myself as an example, I keep LinkedIn (link) quite distinct from Facebook). But what about exploring the idea of [...]
Moving from Brooklyn to Manhattan
I recently moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan and it was quite an ordeal. The move itself was fairly smooth and the flat rate quote was very comforting. However, packing turned out to be more of an issue. Who knew that there were so many different sized boxes and reasons for them. Not to mention that [...]
