Is This The Future of Film?

13th Street Universal in Germany is going to make it really difficult for anyone to label “going to a movie” a passive activity. They’ve embarked on a re-launch of the...

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The Virtual Girlfriend Experience

Are you lonely? Are you bored? Are you looking for some . . . “excitement”? Well, if you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be a prime candidate for Cloud Girlfriend. Yes,...

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Why Men Shop

Though the marketplace has shifted drastically to an online platform, the brick-and-mortar retail store is a constant. Retail situations garner very different reactions from us all. For statistical purposes we tend to shuffle results into two...

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Defending Your Turf: The Small Brand Dilemma

UNIS is a small brand. They have one store. They sell wholesale to 25 others. They make sensible clothing for seemingly sensible folks. The quality is very good, but they are faced with the sticky conundrum of exclusively doing their manufacturing...

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Capitalism 2.0

We are at the start of a technology driven revolution. In the coming decades, we will have astonishing new abilities to diagnose illness, heal disease, educate the world’s children, create opportunities for the poor and harness the world’s...

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Debunking Myths on Teen Online Behavior

In a recent report, Forrester shares some interesting statistics on US teens that further enhance our findings from Window on Teens (

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The Weight of Words in Beijing

"Supreme", "Royal", "Luxury", "High Class", "Best", "Unique", "Irreplaceable". Come April 15th, these words will cost more than their definitive value. If you’re a Beijing-based business, using them for your outdoor advertisements, that is.

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More Drink? More Ink

Want to drink for cheaper? Like, for a long long time? Like, for life? Well, Scotland’s largest independent brewer BrewDog may have a way to help you out with that. You may just have to sacrifice some of your bodily real estate in return for...

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The (Old) New Model of Dynamic Pricing

Looking at trends for the year ahead, the feeling is that the way we “seal the deal” is changing drastically and fast seeming to be surrounding many other thoughts and predictions around 2011. In an earlier post we

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Social Media That is Actually Social:

The paradox of the communication revolution is that despite that we are now always connected and always on we are increasingly becoming disconnected from one another. You only have to ride an elevator to realize that in socially ‘close’...

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