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Buying something on Amazon today I noticed this graphic near the checkout button:
Apparently if I enter “Christopher’s Gentle Fist” on other websites I can use my Amazon shipping and payment info:
I would argue that when we’ve gotten to the point that we are asking users to type phrases like “Christopher’s gentle fist” in order to buy underwear and laptops, it is time to rethink our online payment security model.
Agreed. This thing is dumb.
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File Under: Spammers are really smart (and funny).
So apparently in World of Warcraft you can’t spam people with commercial messages or you get kicked off. However, there is a lot of money in selling gold to players and there are a bunch of sites that competing to sell it to you. So their solution, as Seamus at Virtual Economics explains is to arrange a bunch of dead bodies in the game to spell out their URL:
Go to any major city (Stormwind, Orgrimmar) and you’ll see the name of some gold-selling website or other spelled out in dead bodies on the ground. Now, it’s quite hard to spell out URLs in dead bodies (it takes several corpses, hence player accounts that you have to hack from somewhere - to spell out each one) so the big trick is to get a URL that is short, ideally memorable and above all easy to spell out in the dead bodies of WoW avatars.
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President Obama confirmed that cyber-warriors have aimed at American networks. “We know that cyber-intruders have probed our electrical grid,” he said at the White House in May…
“In other countries, cyberattacks have plunged entire cities into darkness.”
”Living in a house in the woods, diaconnected, with someone I love. What a dream. I aspire to this.
tedr:
Apple closes in on Microsoft, finally. Fantastic.
Rather amazing. For the decade Apple is above their best from before the crash and Microsoft is at their worst since before the crash.
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CulinaryCulture is now live and open to the public!!!!
Check it out:
Great work, guys!
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I recently bought the Zumi Digital from Photojojo.com. Above is one of the pictures I have taken with it. As you can see, this toy camera takes lo-fi vintage looking pictures. It was a little on the pricey side ($160), but as a camera enthusiast, I had to buy it. What I love is that I can get this look without having to manipulate my pictures. I love photoshop as much as the next girl, but I feel like the photo should already be great straight off the camera, not because I murdered it with filters. But that’s just me. You can see more of my Zumi photos on my Flickr
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Hoan Ton-That is one of the smartest people I know. Earlier today we spoke about how the social gaming/virtual goods companies could save the incentivized offer industry which have had a bad week.
The offer industry is built on the concept of product bundling. Andrew Chen wrote a great post about here so wont go into the details.
In search marketing we’ve learned that the magic term “Intent” is the key to how most of the value is being created for someone like Google. By capturing the intent of a person who is out to buy something you have the power of directing traffic of huge value. How do you carry intent over to other sites where we’re not searching? It’s hard but here is an idea:
Amazing has something called “wish-list”, basically a list of books or products that I’ve saved on Amazon that I might buy sometime in the future. There could be many reasons why I’m putting something in my wish-list but one of them is certainly that I might buy it in the future. Compared to any book on Amazon the intent captured in my wish-list has a much higher value for Amazon. Basically Amazon have captured and saved my intent for the future.
In my opinion it’s crazy that this isn’t something that is being used on other sites, especially e-commerce sites . If I was able to “Heart” or “Like” products on any e-commerce site and they were able to save those “intents” for the future they’ve created value for my next return.
The big idea here is to capture someone intent and link it to a specific user. I think there is a huge opportunity with the mysterious Facebook Open Graph API to do just that. And it doesn’t have to be the same thing as with the beacon-fiasco. Imagine I’m on Etsy, I find something pretty and click “Like”. Etsy is connected with facebook and my (possible) intent is shared with my friends. Privacy-issue? Possibly, but the value of sharing something I like to facebook is probably larger for most users.
Value created for Etsy? Duh.
Facebook should start sharing Intent over the social graph and enable the “Like” function for everything on the web.
Here are some stuff I would “Like” if I could:
- http://www.amazon.com/Audacity-Win-Lessons-Historic-Victory/dp/0670021334/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I10NKD5T6CVBIR&colid=BYJ1NXGDESBF
- http://www.myspace.com/kaffibarinnights (great bar in Reykjavik)
A universal Facebook like button that shares a line to your newsfeed would be awesome.
At the last FB dev brouhaha they talked about expanding the social graph to objects outside Facebook. Is it possible to build a widget that displays a button on any page to “like” it? (This would add a one-liner to your stream, and presumably save that like info on the site.)
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Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas
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