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06.02.10

Ding! You are now free to keep your points to yourself Entrepreneurship, Games, Product | Comments Off
Yesterday, after returning from my trip to the Bay Area this weekend, I qualified for a free Rapid Rewards trip on Southwest airlines and received a confirmation email with the award codes. Yet the email did not include a link to post an announcement to Facebook or any other element of social interaction or social gaming--for example, to see which of my Facebook friends had qualified for trips or who had earned the most credits in the past year. In many ways, frequent flyer programs are the original social games. Users receive points for activity, they can level up based on ...
06.01.10

BP did not plan to fail… and that was the problem Product | (2)
It has been over 40 days since the BP oil rig explosion and blow-out that has been spewing 15K-20K barrels per day into the Gulf and there is still no end in sight. Aside from the media coverage of the potential devastating impact on the environment and way of life of the people in the affected areas, there is now a lot of discussion about the events that led up to the explosion and how the government and the energy industry can prevent similar events in the future. All that is good and necessary. There are certainly steps the government should ...

Mark Geller