If you haven’t heard of ChaCha, they are a human powered search engine focusing on mobile. To use ChaCha, you enter your question and a human (allegedly) ChaCha guide goes out and searches for the answer for you. The guides are paid a few bucks an hour and work from home. They used to […]
Entries Tagged as 'Companies'
ChaCha Makes Me Laugh
May 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Blog It: What Would You Do From Inside a Facebook App?
April 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I’m writing this post from Blog It, inside of Facebook. Blog It is a tool from Six Apart that lets you post to multiple blogs or update multiple statuses from one place. For example, I just updated both my Twitter and Facebook statuses from here.
Summary: Love Blog It, but I wonder why it needs […]
Social Networking. Huah! What is it Good For?
April 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments
OK, so it doesn’t roll of the tongue quite the same way that that “War” does in the Edwin Starr song. But with so many social networking sites out there for so many different things, I figured I’d give my take on what’s best for what and how I use the different primary social […]
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I Love Me My Moo
April 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments
There’s been this strange business card meme going around lately. First, Brandflakes blogged about Brian Shalen’s card at SXSW. And then yesterday, Rick Mahn polled a bunch of folks on How Simple Are You Willing To Go On Your Biz Cards? And in a slightly related story that is sure to rock the social […]
Open Kimono Re-branding
April 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Most rebranding exercises at big companies are conducted with high paid consultants and designers and executives and focus groups and, well…you get the picture. They are painful, sometimes divisive, and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t.
But what’s always been true as a consumer or customer is that unless you’re in on the focus groups, […]