June 2010
Walking in L.A. - GOOD →
a 5 part series
May 2010
Sam’s Club Tailors Sales Based on Shoppers’... →
Linda Vytlacil, vice president for member insights and innovation at Sam’s Club, said coupons normally had a response rate of 1 percent or 2 percent. With eValues, she said, as many as 20 percent to 30 percent of eligible customers collect the discount they are offered.
New in Labs: Move the attachment and other icon... →
Modern Phenomenon - Anna Shechtman writes today's... →
Teenage constructors are rare and there have only been two published women younger than 20 in the history of New York Times crosswords.
congrats anna!!
2014 Super Bowl: NY/NJ wins bid to host game →
Chrome-To-Android Extension: Awesome, Deadly →
Worst First Pitch of All Time? - SFist →
h/t paul
Supreme Court rules NFL is 32 teams, not one... →
“Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-maximizing entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned,” said the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for an unanimous court.
Bloomberg Announces Investment in Tech Start-Up →
ChompOn Is A White-Label Platform For Groupon-Like... →
David Byrne Sues Charlie Crist For Musical Crimes →
h/t kim
A Pattern of Sibling Risk-Taking in the Major... →
Funny Or Die Pulling In Tens Of Millions In... →
An Inside Look At Facebook Questions, The Next... →
Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads... →
adamkatz:
smart - @cdixon on FB’s display ambitions. The key question is whether the data Facebook collects provides a sufficient indication of intent. What they’re collecting now - not sure (outside of media consumption habits where the answer is probably yes - see Dixon’s Avatar / Avatar 2 example) Long-run: probably (Facebook credit purchase history is probably pretty good here)
Senator Claire McCaskill: I know I will be booed... →
I have always said sports and politics don’t mix. I have always known that the last thing sports fans want is to see a bunch of politicians shilling for votes at games. So I’ve always understood when they get booed. The way I see it, those elected officials who turn up on the field deserve to get…
The Open Gov Initiative: Enabling Techies to Solve... →
O’Reilly’s goal is to get regions all across the U.S. doing what San Francisco has done with Open311. But one of the challenges is to standardize APIs across localities, and to create standards. If this effort does succeed, developers will be able to write common applications that route requests to the correct department in whatever jurisdiction the citizen happens to be at the time. The...
Los Angeles Reimagined with Narrow Streets - GOOD... →
h/t bay
New Panera location says pay what you want →