Brilliant interactive billboards
As companies become more comfortable and innovative with interactive outdoor advertising, we’ve come to see some pretty brilliant experiments. Recently I posted about the eco-friendly Coca-Cola...
View ArticleGoogle steps up their Places strategy with Zagat acquisition
Google steps up their Places strategy with Zagat acquisition || “Google Buys Zagat” http://ow.ly/6pffe After a failed attempt late in 2009 to acquire Yelp for $550 million plus earn-outs (sources...
View Article7 billion lives
If there’s one thing that can be said about this highly connected world that we – as members of the “developed countries” – live in it is that technology has afforded us the ability to “shrink” the...
View ArticleCoffee consumption
400 billion (400,000,000,000) It seems that if all other efforts to unify this planet of 7 billion fail, we can at least rally around our universal love of coffee. According to the 2011 edition of the...
View ArticleCoke’s 125th anniversary
1.7 billion (1,700,000,000) The Coca-Cola Company is one of the world’s most valuable (#11 world-wide) and venerable brands, as well as one of America’s most beloved companies. This year is the...
View Article1,000 posts
On Friday, November 18, 2011 The Road Not Taken crossed the symbolic 1,000 post mark thanks to the loyal readership. It only took 20 months or approximately 1.6 posts per day. In honor of this...
View ArticleThanksgiving 2011
248 million (248,000,000) Happy Thanksgiving to my U.S. based readers! For those of you who aren’t quite up to speed on the holiday, it stems from when the Pilgrims landed in what is now Plymouth,...
View Article“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) A special Thanksgiving Day wish to my friends, colleagues, family, and especially to my wife who made the amazing...
View ArticleDaily deals gone wrong
102,000 Over the past year or so I’ve been a fairly vociferous critic of Chicago-based Groupon. Not that they needed any additional scrutiny given the plentiful bad press the daily deals darling has...
View ArticleGlobal food production
66% According to a snappy new video developed by the World Wildlife Fund, roughly one-third of the world’s landmass is currently being used to produce food to feed the more than 7 billion occupants...
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