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JetBlue is running this poster in the New York Times today to celebrate its tenth year of flying. It’s good to see a company that has paid so much attention to customer service and experience reach this milestone, especially in a decade that has been particularly hard on airlines.
The running joke every time Apple releases a new product, or removes buttons from an existing one, is that the company hates buttons. Cameron Hunt suggests the opposite: Would you say to someone, “Wow, you must hate dogs. You only have one. You enjoy his company and playing with him, but seriously, only one? What do [...]
Jerry Seinfeld takes on Blackberry users, rudeness, and dunking his wife’s Blackberry in yogurt: “Oh, it said Blackberry. I guess I got confused.” (The full stand-up routine runs 7:19, and the Blackberry portion starts at 5:03. To start the video right at this point, I used a fine tool called Splicd.com.)
Today is International Women’s Day, an event celebrated for the first time on March 19, 1911: More than one million women and men attended IWD rallies campaigning for women’s rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination. However less than a week later on 25 March, the tragic ‘Triangle Fire’ in [...]
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New York Times reporter Claire Cain Miller explains five of the most popular uses of Twitter: At its best, the social medium is a perpetual, personalized news service about topics of your choosing — whether health care reform, tech news or the latest episode of “Gossip Girl” — filtered and served to you by people who [...]
Eric Karjaluoto has written a book called Speak Human. It’s all about how to be small and personal in your approach to business. He laments the outsize presence of the very largest corporate brands: Odd as it may sound, I want Finnish gas stations in Finland. I don’t want a Starbucks in the Forbidden City (others [...]
Wired reports on TISC, or Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation, a knowledge sharing website developed by the Department of Defense that has served as an online hub for relief organizations working in Haiti: The system is designed to be as simple as possible, and is as easy to use as a site like Facebook, says Ty Wooldridge [...]
