What is Gamification?
Gamification… the buzzword is all the rage and one thing I can’t help but observe is that it means different things to everyone you talk with, even though the core concept of creating incentives for users of an app or service to do specific tasks is pretty well accepted. Here’s what the functional breakdown means [...]
2012 Predictions
It’s the time of year when predictions are thrown out left and right, so in keeping with the spirit I have put together a list of things I would like to see happen in the year ahead. The Business of Social Networks: We have seen a coalescing of business models form around social networks and [...]
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“Wages Must Fall!”: What All Good Keynesians Should Say, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty The gloating is easy to understand. After all, nominal wage rigidity is the driving assumption of the Keynesian model. Unemployment is just a labor surplus; since wages are the price of labor, the fundamental cause of [...]
Freemium Mechanics
I read an interesting blog post by Ruben Gamez titled Why Free Plans Don’t Work. If you are interested in freemium business models or any of the variations on the theme, this is well worth reading however I take issue with a couple of points. First and foremost, Gamez uses a statistics breakdown (in %) [...]
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Classic.Ars: Understanding Moore’s Law A must read so that when someone declares that Moore’s Law is the reason why… you will be able to refute the point. tags: blog Moore’s Law Study: Nearly 80 percent of college students can’t figure out QR codes I’m kind of tired of these codes showing up in places that [...]
BabbaBox Fun for Children
The nice folks at BabbaCo sent my children a BabbaBox, which is a giftbox stocked full of projects, reading, and activities built around a theme. Targeted to 3-6 year old boys and girls, the BabbaBox is well put together and features imaginative projects and storytelling activities designed to stimulate and engage young children on a [...]
Evernote Specialized Apps
Evernote is launching an app called Food that people can use to capture the meals and recipes they love. This is smart, wicked smart. The app isn’t just a better recipe app, which would require a backend service like AllRecipes, Food is a way to capture the experience of food in multiple dimensions, including what [...]
Forrester: Enterprise Social Software Market Sizing
Forrester recently released a report that, among other things, forecast the size of the enterprise social software market to grow to $6.4b in 2016. Here is a link to the original publication, however a summary of the research can be found here. I tend to follow these markets and research like this is interesting to [...]
Communication Shapeshifting, the USPS, and Atos Banning Email
I read this morning (and heard on the news while driving in) that the USPS is asking Congress to let it relax the requirements for first class mail delivery. Aside from the obvious observation that the USPS being tethered to Congress is in no small part a factor in their deteriorating financial condition, the other [...]
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The Dwindling Power of a College Degree – NYTimes.com tags: blog Finally! Flickr Alternative 500px Launches Its Lightroom Plugin | TechCrunch tags: blog lightroom plugin HubSpot’s Best Practices for Managing SaaS Inside Sales | For Entrepreneurs This is a really thoughtful post that goes to a level of detail not easily found. tags: blog best [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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