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Comment on The Dos and Don’ts of a Finicky Millennial by Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:48:42 +0000

25 M – new to this site.

I agree with all of these do’s/don’ts except the no cable thing. Until someone starts streaming professinal sports live and in HD – we will have that one difference.

Comment on The Dos and Don’ts of a Finicky Millennial by Emily Verkruyse

Emily Verkruyse — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:12:40 +0000

Clare – Thanks for your feedback! I do have a hunch that my dos and don’ts might be different from other people my age because NYC is a pretty unique environment. (For example, I’m sure I would listen to the radio more if I had a car.)

Comment on The Dos and Don’ts of a Finicky Millennial by Clare

Clare — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:06:07 +0000

I like it- and agree with most of it. Especially the damn credit card minimums- I’ll pay the extra, too! The biggest one where I differ from you is the radio, but that’s because I don’t live in NYC and still spend a decent amount of time in my car. Since my car doesn’t have an iPod plug-in, and god knows the last CD I bought, I tend to listen to the radio. Oh, and I still buy all my clothes/shoes in brick & mortar stores. Still like to try everything on. But interesting thoughts- and it’s nice to see them articulated.

Comment on When Is It Time to Sign Off? by Marie

Marie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:34:11 +0000

I think social media is a double-edged sword; it brings to you what is going on in the world, but at the same time social media can keep you from participating in it.

I think that ‘when’ to ‘sign off’ and live depends on the person and what they are looking for in social media.

Comment on PR vs. Advertising – Sharing the Social Media Pizza Pie by eixaldaSnowxie

eixaldaSnowxie — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:11:28 +0000

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Comment on The Future of the Filter by Emily Verkruyse

Emily Verkruyse — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:26:47 +0000

Hi Brian,

You have a good point — if there were some sort of centralized content system, I think there would need to be a business model that would somehow share profits with the content owners.

However, I was picturing this filter in a different sort of way. Let’s say that I search Google News or Google Blogs fairly often, with the same set of keywords, and I tend to click on certain types of links more than others. What I envision is Google (or whoever) providing content to me that is deemed to be relevant based on my past online behaviors. I’m picturing this like my Google Reader, but in reverse — I wouldn’t subscribe to specific blogs/sites; Google would give me things it assumes I would like.

The behavioral tracking systems are already in place, because we use them in advertising, and they’re pretty sophisticated. It would be cool to see the data used for this purpose.

Of course, this plan falls apart when content publishers put up paywalls (like the NY Times plans to do).

Thanks for your feedback!

Emily

Comment on The Future of the Filter by Brian M

Brian M — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:41:15 +0000

That’s an interesting thought – filtering by content, that is. I think you’re right that almost everything we do online now can be social (although I’m not sure how useful that always can be). However, filtering by content is an extremely difficult, and maybe not even an ideal, task to accomplish. The problem starts with having our information everywhere: friends on Facebook, email on Gmail, news on CNN, photos on Flickr…the list goes on. While some companies have attempted to centralize the information (see Yahoo’s home page allowing you to check info on different websites), the attempts haven’t really made much progress. It’s the same problem with TV and computers: shouldn’t we be able to combine our online experience with cable programming? Up to this point, no company has been completely been successful at merging the two (AppleTV, Hulu). I’m not going to make a claim that people don’t want centralized information, but I think the problem is that most websites (and businesses) make their systems extremely proprietary. In other words, businesses don’t have an incentive to combine their web applications with other web applications. The problem goes even further with making money: a lot of these businesses make money with advertising – Google, Facebook, Flickr. If there’s a centralized content system, how would each separate business make money?

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Comment on Update: MapMyRun and Online Brand Management by Emily Verkruyse

Emily Verkruyse — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:22:29 +0000

Hi Kate!

Yep, I’ve been working on this for a month or so. I’m just getting started with the running, so I’ve been pretty lame with it so far…but hopefully I’ll keep up with it through the spring and get better!

Miss you too! xo

Comment on Update: MapMyRun and Online Brand Management by Kate T

Kate T — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:37:34 +0000

EM! I just now am seeing that you have a blog! Nice-I will keep reading it!
Sounds like you have been running-how’s that going for you?
Miss you!