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Andrew Gooss — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:44:41 -0400

The story of the Cincinnati kid ending up in an unflattering ad campaign because his photo was put up by his father, is a sad one, but its a good lesson for all of us. The internet is a public domain, and you have to be careful what you put up there; especially photos.

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Andrew Gooss — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:08:23 -0400

Busch is such an iconic American brand that it certainly won't help their image if they get bought out by a foreign company. How much it will hurt them remains to be seen. Your average Bud Ice drinker doesn't regularly peruse the business section so they may not find out about this. If and when they do though, they will care, but maybe not enough to stop buying the beer. I mean no one is boycotting WalMart because 80% of its products are made in China. I just don't think that the movement to 'buy American' is all that strong anymore.

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Andrew Gooss — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:03:13 -0400

I agree with this statement if Arrington's numbers are true – it's almost silly not to. Even though Facebook is bigger, MySpace is still more profitable for one reason alone -- it's better designed to make money.

In the beginning, people valued social networking sites based on potential rather than revenue. This made sense because there was no revenue, however in the past year ad space has been sold on social networking sites with varying degrees of success.

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Andrew Gooss — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:37:19 -0400

I don't see why productivity would be affected by a gender ratio imbalance within the workplace. My roommate used to work in an all male office, and they seemed to function well. I don't think that productivity is so much affected as the social environment is.

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Andrew Gooss — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:27:03 -0400

Flogs are a ticking time bomb. Its only a matter of time before a company goes a little too far and gets sued by some opportunist for false advertising, deceptive practices, or whatever else they are leaving themselves open too by creating these things. It's one thing to create a flog to make fun of Steve Jobs, but its quite another to use a flog to sell virus protection software.

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Andrew Gooss — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:09:24 -0400

That depends on what the product is. If you are redesigning an already common product, such as a bottle opener, you're going to want it to look really cool and different so that it will set itself apart from a sea of other products that offer the exact same experience.
If however you are coming up with a new product such as a floating skateboard; then what it looks like doesn't matter at all, as long as it is capable of providing the consumer with a unique product experience. I wouldn't care how ugly a floating skateboard is, as long as its a floating skateboard.

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Andrew Gooss — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:05:52 -0400

I was very weary when the first person i knew from work requested to add me as a friend on facebook. It seemed like the wall between my personal and professional lives had been knocked down. You could use facebook as a way to make and maintain business contacts but I seriously doubt that anyone does.

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Andrew Gooss — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:07:58 -0500

I wish someone would create a cereal box that causes less mess when you try to get cereal out and reseals itself after you open it. I end up putting all my cereal into ziploc bags.