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Fast Talk | April 26, 2008 3:06 am
Q. Fast Talk Question - When it comes to designing a new product, does form still follow function?
A. Apparently Philippe Starck produced a lot of fashionable decoration. ...
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Fast Talk | April 26, 2008 2:58 am
Q. Fast Talk Question - Are "flogs" -- fake blogs created by advertisers for product placement -- strategically smart or just ticki
A. Agree with everyone else. how dumb do marketeers think relatively savvy bloggers/ blog readers are? It is too easy for the readers to retaliate with blogs on these fake bloggers... the viral...
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Fast Talk | April 26, 2008 2:53 am
Q. Fast Talk Question - Which is worse for productivity: having a disproportionate number of men in an office, or a disproportiona
A. ridiculous question to stir the pot. and it's working. too many variables - age group(s), single or married, type of business, company size/ formality, etc etc
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Big Idea: Big Idea - The impact of the recession will be gender biased, with women more likely to be laid off first | by Fast Company staff | April 26, 2008 2:48 am
Comment: Women are only working for pocket money anyway, right? OK, before I get reported, I am kidding. Why would women get laid off first? Where is this old boys' club - I have not seen...
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Fast Talk | April 26, 2008 2:26 am
Q. Fast Talk Question - When it comes to travel and entertainment, do you prefer to trust professionally written guides like Zagat
A. Travel and entertainment is not really the same as Food. And Travel is not the same as entertainment. Travel is less subjective and more black-and-white - if a hotel is literally a...
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Fast Talk | April 02, 2008 7:35 pm
Q. Fast Talk Question - Is branding overrated?
A. Brand = lifestyle association. 1. take a $30 pair of jeans and compare it with a $100+ pair of jeans. Remove all labels. Is there a real difference. 2. People who buy eg the...
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Article: IT's Not about the Technology | by Kermit Pattison | March 31, 2008 8:22 pm
Comment: I don't think anyone is saying Technology or technologists are not important. Tom is talking about the success of deployment, and you cannot count on the technology alone. Take another...
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Fast Talk | March 31, 2008 8:13 pm
Q. Fast Talk Quesion - Why haven't American employees demanded as much vacation time as their European counterparts get?
A. I think simply people don't ask for it. For a level of seniority where there is an individual contract, most don't even ask for more than the 'standard'. For the others, yes there are...
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Fast Talk | March 27, 2008 11:57 am
Q. Fast Talk Question - Which existing Web 2.0 websites are likely to struggle in the near future?
A. That's a very open question. The bottomline relates to viability, ie positive cash flow. The sites that have a strategy of getting acquired by News, MicroSoft etc are merely placing bets....
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Member Blog | 0 recommendations | January 11, 2008 2:06 pm
Good and bad
I like the concept - that whether you are logged in or not governs how the site is personalized. I have quite a number of thoughts and will address each separately as I come across them,...
Tags: Design, beta test, beta tester, Design
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