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My friend JP shared this presentation via twitter and I am ashamed to say I have participated in the dark side of design. Personally I think of my time at the CBC as a sort of penance – a purgatory if you will. Dark patterns shows the ways companies and …
I originally posted this on webanalytictemplates.com ———————————————————————————— One of the keys to a successful implementation of any business project is alignment. At each stage or level the goals and tactics must align otherwise you end up with a confused mess. Let me give you an example. Your company is going …
One thing I just don’t get are privacy policies. I don’t understand how a public can be so naive as to be upset that they are being tracked when they are on the Internet, and how unaware they are that invasive tracking is in our daily lives. Julia Angwin wrote …
I have written a few times about email marketing. THE NEWEST IN EMAIL FAIL…AIR CANADA! THOUGHTS ON EMAIL MARKETING MORE THINKING OF EMAIL I am by no means an expert, but I know what I hate and I don’t hate this. Tiger direct sends me mail everyday which I don’t …
Chris Berry, in his post “It’s LIKE Email in a way” is correct that the Facebook like button will net out as a positive despite the inevitable spam. But what he doesn’t notice is that it is spam, and it’s the marketer and the “like” clicker who get rewarded for it. The …
Chris Berry, in his post “It’s LIKE Email in a way” is correct that the Facebook like button will net out as a positive despite the inevitable spam. But what he doesn’t notice is that it is spam, and it’s the marketer and the “like” clicker who get rewarded for it. The …
One girl on Youtube bemoans the fact she cannot understand how Paul the Octopus manages to pick the winning world cup team eight out of eight times. It goes to show truly dumb people are and how desperately they want to believe that there are some who can foretell the …
Check out this email I received today in my inbox: There’s nothing wrong with it right? They have it personalized, there are very clear offers, they might be relevant except… I just bought a fucking ticket to Tokyo. Sending me a cheap offer three days later is like telling customers, …
Jeff Atwood, who writes the blog Coding Horror tweeted about issues in interviewing programmers who cannot program. Which he had posted about a couple of years ago. (I guess he was tweeting because the issue has not been resolved). Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. …
Here is what I would like to see with email marketing. This is an example of the way a system would work based on a few purchases. I am not sure how hard it would be to set up, but I think it would be really cool and effective.