Communication

Hell's Kitchen (U.S.

I haven’t written about Hell’s Kitchen in a bit and since we’re a good way into this season, I’ll take advantage of Foodie Fun Friday to do so. As you know, I think there are lots of business lessons we can learn from Gordon Ramsay‘s rants, but I was reminded of a big one this week. I also saw a clip this morning I want to share with you on the same theme. Continue reading →

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Backwards

The Nielsen Company

The latest Nielsen Three Screen Report is out this morning. In a nutshell:

During 2nd Quarter 2009, the number of people watching mobile video increased 70% from last year and people who watch video on line increased their viewing by 46% compared to a year ago. In addition, the average American TV consumption remains at an all-time high (141 hours per month) compared to the same time frame last year.

Great, except they’ve got it backwards. Continue reading →

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MIA

Image representing Gmail as depicted in CrunchBase

If you use Gmail as your primary email provider, you had a problem yesterday. Gmail went down for a lot of the day.  From the thunder reverberating around the web, Twitter, and elsewhere, one would have thought the digital world had ended. Strangely, I use a Gmail account for my personal mail and never noticed a thing since I was accessing that mail via Blackberry yesterday. Aside from yet another example of how these machines are evil, sentient beings, the outage raises a bigger point in my mind. Continue reading →

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