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Re: YouTube takes ‘baby step’ towards countering Hulu

Keith — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:55:05 -0000

Hulu drives me NUTS... "this content cannot be displayed in your region"

When surfing the web, coming across articles with embedded video and having this come up... incredibly annoying!

Re: Pirate outnumber buyers 3-1 on iPhone apps

Keith — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:23:36 -0000

I hope Apple finds a way to prevent this sort of abuse, this is rediculous

Re: Can we gag Facebook?

Keith — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:18:53 -0000

It's definitely a slippery slope... but I think the issue here isn't the name of the deceased being published, but the names of the accused.
A 17-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl are accused of 1st degree murder and for journalists and the media to publish the names is illegal under the Youth Criminal Justice act.
At what point do the postings, which include names of the accused, by fellow students, become a criminal act as publishers of publicly viewable media?

Re: The Challenge of Viral Marketing

Keith — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:16:33 -0000

I think you've hit it dead on.
I also think, that for as much as some apps (perhaps even mine) have suffered from the new standards and allocations; they are helping to promote apps which 'retain' users.

There were too many apps seeking the initial install (most quiz apps for example) and they were taking advantage of the system.
At the same time, social gaming will continue to be an area of growth. Games based apps and the game bars, zynga for example are certainly producing some very interesting options for viralit. I just hope that out of that will come valuable lessons for building increasingly viral, useful, non-gaming applications.

Re: Rogers finally getting serious (competitive) with data plans

Keith — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:00:31 -0000

It's a mirage... the fine print tells it best...

http://www.mapleleaftwo.com/rogers-unlimited-da...

Re: Do not call list: A new reality for Canadian marketers. Where will they go next?

Keith — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:09:05 -0000

With an increasing number of legal guidelines and societal/philosophical approaches upsetting the traditional push marketing, it seems marketers are trying harder to communicate with, rather than at customers.
I don't think it will be long before the 'social' web becomes a marketers dream...

Re: Rogers listens – now offering more competitive iphone data plan

Keith — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:53:58 -0000

Yeah so I went today to get my new Iphone...
Found out the latest of sneaky dirty tricks by Rogers. The Iphone price of 199.00 is only available for new customers. If you have an existing account it is dependent on your hardware upgrade credits what price you have to pay.
I am in my 3rd yr of my 1st contract with Rogers and half way through the process of setting up my iphone in the store they told me it was 349.99 plus a 100 'hardware upgrade' tier fee...
So both I and the store rep spent 2 hrs on the various customer service systems and finally got them to wave the 100$ tier upgrade fee... but they stood firm on the iphone price... they said apparently one guy earlier paid nearly $500 for his
!^&$ Rogers

Re: 100 new features coming with the iphone 3.0 software (including copy & paste!)

Keith — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:55:36 -0000

Subscriptions & in-app payments should be interesting too! With pricing & strategies for the iPhone already an integral part of releasing a successful app, the ability to charge for additional features withing the app will certainly lead to some interesting models. With 30% of this too, Apple is certainly doing something right...

Re: Google Launches Mobile Local Search: More Bad News for Yelp

Keith — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:51:12 -0000

I couldn't help notice the floating category icons in this demo... is AR a 'coming soon' feature? I can only imagine so...