Andy Wibbels

Author: Andy Wibbels

  • 7 Could Be The Magic Number For Apple

    The Apple marketing team is highly praiseworthy when it comes to creating hype around product launches

  • All the Self-Help You’ll Ever Need

    In a thread on Metafilter about The Verge‘s Scamworld takedown, a commenter reveals the ulimate secrets to personal empowerment: Yes, you can live a better, happier, more fulfilling, wealthier life. You actually can do that. Want to know how? It’s really simple, and I’m going to tell you. For free. This is how. Decide to […]

  • How to Find People Impersonating You Using Google Image Search

    Any image you see online can be easily copied and put somewhere else online and there’s not much you can do about it. Google recently updated their image search to allow you to search for images similar to one that you upload or one that is already online. Here’s their video for it: (the drag-and-drop kinda […]

  • Forever 21, Facebook and Brand You

    Fantastic essay from N+1, The Accidental Bricoleurs by Rob Horning. Read the whole thing. Discussion of this essay on Metafilter. My favorite quotes: “Forever 21 was a brilliant name for a fast-fashion retailer. These two words succinctly encapsulate consumerism’s mission statement: to evoke the dream of perpetual youth through constant shopping.” … “The all-purpose excuse […]

  • Your Email Can Be Seized Without Warrant After Six Months

    Back when everyone downloaded their email to their machine every time they checked email the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act considered email older than 180 days to be ‘abandoned.’ A coalition of internet service providers and other groups, known as Digital Due Process, has lobbied for an update to the law to treat both cloud- […]

  • Email Marketing and Paid Search Still Beat Social Media

    Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpur interviewed 24 tech vendors on their experiences using Facebook for marketing and engagement: A social-network presence, she found, was less effective at customer acquisition and retention than e-mail and paid search. The study found that the average Facebook metrics are a 1% click-through rate and a 2% conversion rate. E-mail marketing, […]

  • Quora at It’s Best

    Lots of hype about Quora but the site excels when you get answers straight from the horse’s mouth:

  • Social Media and the Mom-and-Pop Shop

    Get Satisfaction CEO Thor Muller spoke at the Oakland Digital Literacy Center’s social media symposium for small business. Great excerpt from his blog post about small business and social media: [M]y father, a long-time restaurateur in San Jose, California, is currently in the process of resurrecting a restaurant called Lou’s Village after several years of […]

  • GoDaddy CEO Slaughters Endangered Elephant, Posts Video, Wrecks GoDaddy’s Brand

    GoDaddy CEO Bob Parson’s relishes being a polarizing figure with his tits-and-ass fake controversy approach to selling commodity services like domain registration, advocating for torture and now posting a video of him killing an endangered elephant while vacationing in Zimbabwe. PETA and other animal advocacy groups are changing their registrars and NamesCheap is making a […]

  • Data loss is so awesome

    Gimme a bit.