I just subscribed to Hulu-Plus, and thought of one big difference. Being an ad-junkie now, think about this. When you watch Hulu on a laptop – you can click the ads. When I watch Hulu on my TV, I can’t click the ads. Why would advertisers pay for ads on Hulu, and then have them be served on Hulu Plus?
Honestly, ads on regular Hulu are worth a fortune, they can target and you can click, on a TV – people just mute like they do when they have cable or satellite…
So all those workout machines have TV, the most irritating thing is on my new workout plan I leave my house at 6am, get to the club at 6:15 – in the middle of anything on TV. And what is really on TV at 6am anyways? Why not have HuluPlus or Netflix on the screens on each machine, give users a tag or something to flag its you – and then you could work out to the TV shows you actually like. The best part is with “resume” basically when you left a machine and traveled, your TV could go with you…
So I love Hulu Plus, and I see a ad for “Million Dollar Rooms” – but then, when I go to find it its not on Hulu. I’m probably a typical Hulu Plus subscriber, since I do not have cable. How am I suppose to click on the ad and watch “Million Dollar Rooms” – which was very targeted towards me since I found it interesting, if I don’t have cable.
Hulu Plus #fail…
Checked out iNG Restaurant during restaurant week in Chicago. AWESOME! The service was excellent, the staff was more than friendly.
The menu was origami, a square. Unfolding it was easy, trying to fold it back into a square wasn’t so easy, however was a great conversation topic at dinner!
The food was wonderful, small filling portions for each course. The desert was great, featured miracle berries to make a sour dessert taste good. It was my first miracle berry experience, and I have to say it was weird having lemon’s that tasted sweet as a “test” food.
worth checking out, online at: http://ingrestaurant.com/
Cover photos on Facebook are GREAT! They really enhance the presence of people’s profiles and even brands pages! There is one catch 22 though, when brands upload new photos and publish the new “cover photos” to the stream, it is hurting their Edgerank score. Most brands are changing their cover photos every few days, so every few days huge numbers of fans are blasted with the change, and when mixed in with other updates more related to marketing, the cover photo is receiving comments.
I figured out how to easily do it! just add your link to the ‘custom_image_url’ value and it will change it just like you would update a tab name.
Since ice cream can now be refrigerated, someone needs to make a root-beer-float-soda product, where you can somehow drop ice cream into the soda. Like a Gatorade bottle, with the big opening for a spoon.
I’m surprised there isn’t one out there… Only issue would be it really would have to stay refrigerated..
The good & the bad. The good was that it was great for applications that really needed it. I created a number of them where it actually made sense.
The bad, I have seen a ton of applications now that just grab a token and then don’t use it. Then months later they go crazy with it. Unfortunately these few bad people who have decided to abuse the tokens that Facebook allowed, now caused them to go away for everyone who was using them the right way!
UPS / Fedex should operate distribution facilities over the weekends, in today’s day and age with the internet – many orders are placed over the weekends. Not that orders should be delivered during the weekends, but if companies could get their products into the UPS/Fedex distribution systems during the weekends people would receive their packages earlier!
This angers me, I do not understand HOW the post office got into such a bad situation. Sure people email and don’t send letters any longer, but the real question becomes how did they miss out on the .com boom. Now more than ever FedEX and UPS are seeing record profits due to the internet.
Take it back 10 years, the United States Post Office should have seen this coming, and like any business (even though they are quazi-government) prepared. As Amazon.com, eBay and all these other companies started seeing huge traffic, and items started being shipped – why did our post office not pick up the slack? The USPS visits EVERY HOUSEHOLD, BUSINESS and location in this country daily – delivering packages would have been easy considering they had the infrastructure in place. If anything they could have expanded it, and created a cheaper way to ship more items for all these huge .com’s. Instead of just being a “shipping option” they should have stepped up the plate and offered better discounts, and been more competitive.
Finally, in 2011 were starting to see tracking and some of the technologies that UPS/FedEX had years ago be adopted by our postal service. The tracking now actually shows in many cases where your package last was, and is accurate and not 12 hours behind. Database services are quick, why should anyone have to wait 12 hours to see a update?
Now the USPS is left with a 8 billion dollar shortfall, a bunch of commercials that say to use their flat rate boxes so you don’t have to weight them (up to 70lbs? – so you do?), not a good reputation for boxes – but the infrastructure in place to handle it. It would be interesting to see what percent of mail today is marketing related as well – I bet its well over 50%.
Finally, I wonder some of the stats. Lets say it takes 20 seconds per house to deliver mail, if the average postal worker makes $26/hour with benefits, that means that each house coss $0.14 per day ($46/year) to deliver mail to just for the postal worker alone. Why not just cut back to delivering mail to residential homes to 2 days a week, and keep businesses at 5 (since they do in general still handle a lot of mail), anyone who wants mail daily could get a PO Box and check it themselves.
