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Hooray for misleading charts!

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

While reading a blog post for work I came across one of my favorite statistical distortions.

Look at this chart.  Isn’t it amazing?  Visually, it seems that yahoo mail users simply have way less friends than Gmail users!  How sad for them.  Maybe if they got Gmail they would be more popular.
Here is the same data [...]

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A recent Harvard Business School study showed that a small percentage of Twitter users tweet…  then the blogs exploded.  Fortunately, after the initial “See why Twitter is doomed” posts, some good commentary focused on understanding the reason for the numbers.
What we should expect from Twitter use hinges on the extent to which it is a [...]

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Recently, a reader asked me how to figure out the best way to make money from their iPhone application. Below is my response:
Without knowing more about your app, I can’t give you a definite answer. What I can tell you is how to weigh your options to make better decisions.
At MIT Sloan, we would determine [...]

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So that Microsoft laptop hunter ad with Lauren has been driving me crazy.  Not because I am a rabid Apple fan however.  It’s because of the picture below:

If someone says I get $1000 to spend, no way am I going to go out and spend only $699.99.  Lauren is leaving a couple hundred dollars on [...]

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Public Service Annoucement: Use Mint.com

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

In the post checkbook age*, people tend to be lazy about managing their finances.  It’s not easy too keep track of everything.  Just look at the list of online financial accounts I have:

Ameritrade Account
Vanguard Account
Bank of America Account
Student Loan Account
Credit Card Account

That’s 5 separate log-ins just to see how much money I’ve lost in the [...]

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This is the perfect title:
Google Threatened by Twitter
Notice how it broadcasts two ideas that are guaranteed to drive web traffic, Google going under and Twitter.  I wonder if bloggers actually care about these topics in proportion to how much they cannot shut up about them.   I logged on to Techmeme this morning and at [...]

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Location Based Social Networking Finally?

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Boy am I excited about Google’s new latitude product.  See initial review here.  This is for a couple reasons.  First, it is just a cool product with great potential.  Second, maybe this will pressure Facebook to finally release the location features they have been working on.
When the iPhone was released with location features, I celebrated.  [...]

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Tanzania Marketing

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Take a minute and guess what the most visible piece of advertising is in Tanzania.  What product do you suppose it is for?  What company logos are most prominent?
Coca-Cola?
Some local beer?  (Kilimanjaro beer.  They got the marketing to tourists thing down)
Nope.  The ads you see plastered on every store in Tanzania are for cell phone [...]

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What is really going on at this place?

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Eye institute or secret Death Star battle station contractor?  You make the call.

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Proof I go to class

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Here is an article about my sustainability class this quarter.  It provides photographic evidence that I actually do attend class at business school.
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