Posts Tagged ‘ Revisit ’

Love when a big name follows up

Back in February, Mr. Hero had a very good post about Google being a one trick pony and how that just didn’t make good business sense.  Well, lookie here — who else jumped on that bandwagon of rock solid logic? None other than Yahoo’s Chief Carol Bartz, citing that “Google is going to have a problem [ READ MORE ]

Friendly fire

I’ve been thinking about Palm being sold to HP and inevitably I started thinking about Google.  Not because of my usual thoughts that Google is a sitting duck business (Have you seen the new facebook “like” feature -ruhroh!) but that Google while posturing to topple Mircosoft, and Apple has left some carnage in its wake.  [ READ MORE ]

Perfect timing, Starbucks is giving it a try

Yesterday, I was talking about the re-usable cup at coffee shops, and wouldn’t you know it – -Starbucks was giving it a go at all of their shops today. (actually after I thought about it for a while, I think they were promoting this on Facebook for the week’s prior, but I didn’t remember). In an [ READ MORE ]

3D – I’ll bring over my glasses

3D continues to be a hot topic on SOTB.  Why? Because it has all the right ingredients to be totally stuck. Until 3DTV’s don’t need glasses it’s just too much of a hassle to have your friends and family over. Here’s a great quote from the NY Times The glasses go for a premium — around $150 [ READ MORE ]

Update – Even Obama knows Amtrak sucks – @NYT Slug on the Tracks

How serendipitous that only a couple weeks after our post about Amtrak that the NY Times Op-Ed contributor Christian Wolmar wrote a brilliant article called “Slug on the Tracks.” But isn’t Acela already a high-speed service? Not at all. By European standards, it would be a regional express: It runs just once an hour, the track [ READ MORE ]

Check it out — This is actually working despite the upsell

Lookie, lookie, lookie. The GQ App, which we were talking about back in December, is doing pretty well. It sold 12,000 units for the January issue.  That’s up 2x from the month prior. Not huge numbers but promising. When do you think they will wake up and say, iPhone isn’t an upsell, but really the venue [ READ MORE ]

Just caught up with an epic show

Just caught up with the last ‘Tonight Show’ on Tivo earlier in the week.  What a mistake is going on here. CoCo I thought was very gracious, acknowledging that NBC had been his home for most of his adult life (read — provided the opportunities for him to become Conan O’Brien). The highlight reel from the [ READ MORE ]

Gap Up to something good

The Gap said same store sales were up 2% in December, according to NPR this morning .   I’m going to go out on an unresearched limb and that’s pretty good for this 2009 Christmas season and that their ‘Give Get’ event was a success. If nothing, you have to give them the thumbs up for not [ READ MORE ]