Commentary

Audible Reviewer – The Chain of Buying Decisions – Wish List

by dldamore

 

Customer Reviews Audible com

 

With so many people willing to participate in large, networked endeavors, maybe we really are on the cusp of finding new ways to fund and perform scientific research.


Just stumbled upon a review by Pam. Saw a different book reviewed by her. She wrote succinctly and other reviewers liked her style too. I decided to see more of her reviews. The block quote above from her review reminds me of the book Wikinomics. I haven’t read it yet but my understanding is that it is about bringing diverse and perhaps unorganized people together with digital technologies to work on and solve problems.

I like books narrated by Walter Dixon. While checking his catalog of narrated books I came upon the book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America on Audible which is where is saw a review by Pam.


Notes: Added both Reinventing Discover and American Nations to my Audible Wish List.

Amazon’s Prime Pantry service lets you ship 45 pounds of groceries for a $6 fee

by dldamore

Amazon’s Prime Pantry service lets you ship 45 pounds of groceries for a $6 fee: “Amazon’s dead-set on killing off the grocery store, with a same-day delivery service and even a Dash gadget for restocking items around the house. Now the retailer’s going one step further, taking on Costco and Walmart with a new program called Prime Pantry.”

(Via.) Techmeme 

*This could be the tip of the iceberg on how online retailing will change the game in the grocery business. 

I’ve been thinking about how packaging would change if it was not on store shelves needing to scream at customers as they wheel their cart around the store. Packaging could be designed to fit in and be combined in cubes that fit in standard box sizes. What items are bought together? Maybe these items would have packages that enable more efficient shipping.

Keep an eye out for packaging news from the food and CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) industries.

 

Sam Altman for President – Y Combinator Posthaven

by dldamore

Sam Altman for President – Y Combinator Posthaven:

“I’m convinced there’s a fundamental change happening in the way work gets done.  It’s becoming normal to start a startup.  There will be a lot more startups in 10 years than there are now, …“ Paul Graham

*Technology allows for new connections and ways to analyze data. Perhaps more than that, it enables new industries to be created and to grow. Where we are now is sort of like where we were when VisiCalc was introduced. Sometimes you can’t see the impact of a revolution until after it happens.

Jason Calicanis: You Are Your Own Media Company | Generation Like | FRONTLINE | PBS

by dldamore

Jason Calicanis: You Are Your Own Media Company | Generation Like | FRONTLINE | PBS:

“Amazon’s video production is unstoppable when you think about it. I mean, they’re going to be able to look at all these e-books created by individuals — and so some 15-, 16-, 17-year-old writes an e-book about zombies, and then another 20-year-old writes one, and then they look and see, well, what page did people give up reading the book. This one had a cutoff rate of page 15 on average, but this one people read to page 50 on average. Let’s option that one and make that into a TV series. That’s the power of data.”

*The Power of Data.

Pandora Thinks It Knows if You Are a Republican – WSJ.com

by dldamore

Pandora Thinks It Knows if You Are a Republican – WSJ.com:

“The company matches election results with subscribers’ musical preferences by ZIP Code. Then, it labels individual users based on their musical tastes and whether those artists are more frequently listened to in Democratic or Republican areas.”

*The next election cycle has already started. Message targeting for votes. Could be used to suppress votes, via negative messaging, for competing candidates too.