Ad of the Day: Lightlife
If Old McLightlife had a farm, all the pigs would be made of vegetables. Lightlife, a ConAgra purveyor of meatless foods, launched this stop-motion animated online ad last week from Venables Bell [...]
HealthNet Using Fake Tweets as Testimonials on Billboards
HealthNet’s tagline, “Way to care,” should be changed to “Way to not give a damn,” following the revelation that the company has been putting fake tweets on its [...]
Report: 1 in 5 Women Use Pinterest. So Where's the Money?
A new report says 1 in 5 U.S. women who go online belong to Pinterest. So why hasn’t the company pinned down a way to turn that love into money?
Social: Facebook Is Poised to Shake Up Advertising, Insider Says
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at TechCrunch Disrupt. Photo: TechCrunch/Flickr Under relentless Wall Street scrutiny, Facebook has clammed up about its advertising experiments. But one ad broker [...]
Retail: Sun Sets on Endless E-Commerce Summer as Sales Tax Comes to Amazon
The sun is setting on the special exception for e-commerce as Amazon begins collecting California sales tax tomorrow. Image: Jesse Varner/Flickr Starting tomorrow, one of the world’s largest [...]
Making A Better Internet
My relationship with the Internet oscillates between waves of euphoria and waves of angst. Some things make me extraordinarily happy: like a client who loves usability testing so much when [...]
Wanna Build a Supercomputer? You'll Need Legos and Raspberry Pis…
Wanna build your own supercomputer? All you need is some Legos and a few dozens Raspberry Pis. That’s Raspberry Pis — no “e.” If you can build a supercomputer with [...]
