After taking Google Finance for a spin around the block, I returned to Yahoo Finance this week and immediately stumbled upon an interesting new feature: add quotes to your website. (Actually, I am a bit late to the party as this feature has been around for a few months, but I still find it fascinating [...]

Seeking Alpha has published a fascinating interactive Q&A session with Katie Stanton, Product Manager for Google Finance. Google entered the crowded online financial data space fairly recently, so it had to bring something new to the table just to differentiate itself from the forerunners of online finance, such as Yahoo Finance, Bigcharts, and the [...]

Flickr, as anyone who regularly reads blogs knows, has been an global sensation, a must for professional and amateur photographers around the world. Since the birth of Flickr and photo sharing sites, I’ve been content to casually watch the development of this industry from the sidelines, occassionally visiting someone’s pictures posted on a blog, [...]

Back in the 1800s, visiting cards were considered essential personal accessories for anyone with a social life. Today, visiting cards are an increasing rarity outside the business world and are considered antiquitated by the youngest generations which are more likely to exchange an SMS with buddies. Still, I find visiting cards incredibly convenient, [...]

Today we received an unsubscribe request from a customer who requested, or better put, demanded that we remove him from our mailing list. While such an event hardly qualifies as a business catastrophe, most marketers probably admit to feeling a little pang of loss with each customer unsubscription. It means that the customer [...]

In my day job as a marketer, I have recently undertaken a particularly daring project. I am working on a model to predict customer actions, specifically which customers will defect in the future. However, after reading up on the science of prediction, I’m starting to wonder if I’ve gone on a fool’s errand. [...]

Does Pandora have a future? Just a couple of days after writing about the wonders of Pandora and other internet radio services, I came across a number of news stories concerning a new, seemingly insurmountable challenge to the fledgling internet radio industry. The Copyright Royalty Board, a body set up by the U.S. [...]