Twenty years ago, on February 1st, 1991, around 6:00 in the evening, veteran LAX air traffic controller Robin Wascher instructed the pilots of the tiny Skywest commuter flight 569, carrying ten passengers and two crew to Palmdale, to enter the runway and prepare for takeoff. Seventy-seven seconds later she gave US Air flight 1493, a […]
Tag Archives: linkedin
Why a Website May Be the Last Thing That You Need
This may sound a little funny coming from a guy who works at an agency that makes such beautiful websites. But it is true. And once you’ve read this article, I think that you’ll understand why making great websites is not about design, but about understanding your customer, the digital ecosystem that they live in. As […]
What Happened to Breath Asure? The Big Bad Business of Off-Label OTC Products.
I was speaking with a close friend the other day and she mentioned that the popular breath-freshener, Breath Asure, had been “crushed” out of the market by the big, bad, evil corporate pharma-mega-corps who had sued the brand into oblivion (this may be a slight embellishment, but fairly true to her intent, I believe. Update: […]
It’s Our Hope That Will End This Recession
Seems like folks are feeling cautiously optimistic these days, what with the DJIA peeking above 10,000 for a few moments this last week and Google, one of the barometers of the New Economy, back up in the stratospheric 500’s. During the far-darker days of almost a year ago a lot of us Americans voted for […]
Why Steve Jobs fears Flip Video (maybe more than Zune)
Many have assumed that Steve Jobs pretty much handed tiny Flip Video it’s lunch last week when he announced that Apple would provide the same capability in the new iPod Nano for free. Some might mourn the little Flip Video as yet another piece of promising Consumer Electronics Roadkill whose soon-to-be sun-bleached bones will remind […]
Introducing the Apple Effect (Part 1)
The Apple Effect is a corporate pathology. A set of behaviors that consumer-facing companies engage in, largely in response to perceiving their product and marketing inferiority when compared to Apple. The Four Key Drivers of this success are very visible: The Industrial Design of the Apple product line is strong and reflects a tight integration […]