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Street Art of the Day: Hanksy returns, with the culinary-inspired duo Pie Hard and “Ice, Ice Babies.”
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Street Art of the Day: Hanksy returns, with the culinary-inspired duo Pie Hard and “Ice, Ice Babies.”
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Internet World Stats Q1 results.
Internet World Stats has released it’s data for the first three months of 2012, showing China with a huge lead in the number of individual users.
The United Kingdom has the highest percentage of population of internet users, at 84.1%. That’s followed closely by Korea and Germany (both 82.7%), Japan (80%), with the US next at 78.3%.
The top 20 countries make up 75% of the world’s internet users.
Interesting to see Nigeria at 11th place overall, maybe because of all their internet scammers?!
Last month, I talked to Amazon customer service about my malfunctioning Kindle, and it was great. Thirty seconds after putting in a service request on Amazon’s website, my phone rang, and the woman on the other end—let’s call her Barbara—greeted me by name and said, “I understand that you have a problem with your Kindle.” We resolved my problem in under two minutes, we got to skip the part where I carefully spell out my last name and address, and she didn’t try to upsell me on anything. After nearly a decade of ordering stuff from Amazon, I never loved the company as much as I did at that moment.
Remember, this was a customer-service call, so I was fully prepared for it to suck. Like most American consumers, my experience with service interactions is largely negative, whether it’s on the phone, in the murky depths of a commerce site, or in the aisles of an electronics store. I’m accustomed to the company being in control, and for our communication to be cold, scripted, and inhumane. Barbara’s congenial but no-nonsense approach was part of what made this experience different, but more important, she had access to exactly the right data about me, and that made the favorable exchange possible. The fact is, Amazon has been collecting my information for years—not just addresses and payment information but the identity of everything I’ve ever bought or even looked at. And while dozens of other companies do that, too, Amazon’s doing something remarkable with theirs. They’re using that data to build our relationship.
Read more about How Companies Like Amazon Use Big Data To Make You Love Them
The Funnel Wall - Plays Music When It Rains
Known as the Funnel Wall, this is a Rube-Goldberg inspired wall machine at the Kunsthof-Passage in Neustadt, Germany. Due to the ‘Mouse Trap’ like system devised on the front of the building, the wall itself creates music when it rains.
If you like to listen to the music, and you always have your headset on, then you know that wire often gets messy. Even if you get used to it and know how to deal with it not to get it messed up, this would a be nice solution.
This clip may be as be pre installed on any bag by manufacturer, or be easily installed by bag owner. It is as simple as attach button.
Of course it is not for backpackers. This is for bags with sling over the shoulder. But who knows, in some cases, it is even more important to have it for backpack :)
Rewards for users recommending apps to friends
We’ve already seen marketers rewarding the crowds for spreading the word about their product with California-based fashion brand Volga Verdi, which offers its Twitter-using customers discounts based on the number of followers. Taking a different approach to that concept, buzzdoes is a feature that pays smartphone and tablet users to suggest apps to friends. READ MORE…
