Wrote a post just yesterday about the power of advertising through T-shirts. Referenced a local restaurant, The Salty Dog Cafe, whose entire identity is based on a t-shirt. Has worked well for others also.
Similar problem (tons of "color" apps), but Apple managed to rank them highly in results when I looked.
I assume they key off of selection criteria from the users (ie. most users installed X after searching for Y, so rank X higher for Y), but it could also be that their company name and app name are both "Color".
Typically those kinds of things would happen once every year or so, twitter (I still don't fully grok their business model), facebook and so on.
Don't understand Twitter's business model? Promoted tweets have the ability to become AdWords for social. Millions of pieces of content are shared everyday giving insight into user's pleasures, dislikes, and lifestyle. This user data, when analyzed, has immense value for companies interested in purchasing. That information is worth a ton.
Bubble or no bubble, I sure grok their business model.
Love this. The health care industry was due for some needed technology innovation in regards to billing and prescriptions and the iPad is the perfect platform to do so.
sure, though rendering random shapes on the screen might be easier and will achieve the same results (utter confusion by pharmacists, nurses, etc, and subsequently poor patient care)
Working for a visionary often brings about opinions on opposite sides of the spectrum; you either love them or hate them. This is true for Apple as it is for other tech giants. If you are on board with Steve's vision and can even remotely grasp what in fact you are working towards, you will love it. If not, you will probably hate it.
Much of this stems from an outward opinion of Steve Jobs being a jerk, which will of course vary based on who you talk to. This is true for every visionary.
Many people will tell you Bob Knight is a jerk, but he was one of the best college basketball coaches in history. If you talk to any of his past players that were willing to put in 100% effort and understood what his intentions were, they would tell you they loved playing for him.
I understand SCVNGR's thought process behind this and appreciate the fact they are going after a major inherent flaw of other daily deal sites (not generating repeat customers).
However, I think SCVNGR will find they have the same problem. Even though they claim research shows that a customer who visits an establishment three times is a "regular" this doesn't take into account that customer is used to severely discounted prices. When someone is used to paying 75% off, I think this is a huge barrier to overcome in order to get them to continuously pay full price.
They have an advertising model. People who organize political revolts log in and see Che's t-shirts for sale on the right side of the page.
Checking status automatically takes away some incentive from users from logging-on, there by less money for fb. Hence the shut-down.
Somebody else posted a project where they were going to create an app so that people could interact with fb through their email? If that takes off, expect it to be shut-down as well.
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