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Ian Leong — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:06:20 -0400

Apparently Philippe Starck produced a lot of fashionable decoration.
http://tailrank.com/5555401/Philippe-Starck-says-that-design-is-dead-and...
and
http://www.smh.com.au/news/richard-glover/designers-too-busy-to-do-any-g...

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Ian Leong — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:58:42 -0400

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 campaign will be turned against the advertiser. A single blogger or YouTube poster and cause amazing damage to a brand - seen any of those (anti-) Comcast blogs and videos...?

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Ian Leong — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:53:52 -0400

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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Ian Leong — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:48:38 -0400

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 it. In any clamp-down, both ends of the spectrum will be laid off first - the useless people, and oddly enough, the most talented people when there is voluntary redundancy offered - they take the 'bonus' and hop straight into another job.

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Ian Leong — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:26:33 -0400

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 flea pit and dirty, there is little subjectivity in that.

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Ian Leong — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:35:00 -0400

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 Infiniti G series would probably never buy the Nissan Skyline series (they are the same car).

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Ian Leong — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:22:49 -0400

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 piece of 'old' technology, CRM. It is never about the Technology, it is always always about business buy-in/ adoption. So ditto for Web 2.0 - it's all about consumer adoption, in other words, it is not whether a site has a blog or not, but what the blog is about...

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Ian Leong — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:13:55 -0400

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 collective bargaining issues, and without a 'collective' like union representation, where would you even start to ask for more vacation?

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Ian Leong — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:57:23 -0400

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.

Good and bad

Ian Leong — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:06:10 -0500

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, rather than providing a full review of the site in one go.

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