Wired 15.01: My 4-Week Quest: Be Smarter
4 weeks to become 10-year smarter. Honestly, who has the time for 9 hours of sleep per day?
(tags: lifehacks brain smarter)
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Archive for December, 2006
Germans pull out of European bid to rival Google | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Not surprisingly, German are abandoning the controversial and ridiculed Quaero project. It’ going to be even more difficult for Jacques Chirac to compete against Google
(tags: france politics internet)
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Outsize Profits, and Questions, in Effort to Cut Warming Gases - New York Times
This article highlights the fact that cutting global warming starts with understanding the real priorities. I guess the 80/20 rule is also true for CO2 emissions. Does anyone know where are the 20% of industries/uses that account for 80% of […]
I am back from Christmas celebrations in Kansas City. For those of you who are not familiar with the US geography (and apparently I was not), the capital of Kansas hapens to be in Missouri! To be more accurate, there are in fact two “Kansas City”, one in Kansas and one in Missouri, […]
NAMING NAMES: The tech reporters who flack for Second Life - Valleywag
Let’s be careful with numbers. There is growing evidence that Second Life is overhyped. I tried for fun and gave up after a couple of attempts. I may come back one day, but right now it seems that marketers are more excited […]
kakoParade: la machine à explorer le temps
This is in French but still easy to use for everyone. Tells you which song was number one on any given day. For example “Ouragan” by Princess Stephanie of Monaco was n 1 when I turned 10!
(tags: funny humour music)
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Internet Research Panel Luncheon at the Media Research Council of Los Angeles
Published December 21st, 2006 in measurement and market research. 0 CommentsThis post is way overdue - I should have published this post a month ago instead a keeping it as a draft for so long. However, I just read a post from Peter Daboll, Yahoo’s Chief of Insights about the end of page views, and it reminded me of this luncheon.
I assisted the Media […]
Customer Listening Blog: ESOMAR Council 2007 to 2008 Election: Results
I forgot to congratulate fellow-blogger Laurent Flores for his re-election to the board of ESOMAR
(tags: marketresearch esomar)
cclair.nl - Blog » ModernCaptcha - when captcha meets usability
Captcha using company inspired by Seth Godin (who suggested selling brands a logo placement)
(tags: captcha tools usability)
SPEAK OUT wherever you are […]
WorldOpinion News - Umbria Introduces New Research Offering
Umbria Connect enables marketers to identify and connect with industry bloggers.
(tags: womma umbria marketresearch)
Brands for the Chattering Masses - New York Times
Good examples oh how to use brand monitoring tools such as Nielsen Buzzmetrics
(tags: marketresearch womma wom Nielsen buzzmetrics)
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Photo: Motivaction
I had the opportunity to meet and talk to Frits Spangenberg at last month’s ESOMAR Panel Research Conference in Barcelona.
I heard today that he has just been elected the new President of ESOMAR (he was Vice-President). Frits set up Motivaction in 1984, now a research agency with a staff of 120 […]
