Holiday 2012: Part XII – How Many Products were Promoted over the Weekend?

For my past holiday predictions and commentary see the following: Holiday 2012: Part I Holiday 2012: Part II Holiday 2012: Part III Holiday 2012: Part IV Holiday 2012: Part V Holiday 2012: Part VI Holiday 2012: Part VII Holiday 2012: Part VIII Holiday 2012: Part IX Holiday 2012: Part X Holiday 2012: Part XI – […]

Holiday 2012: Part XI – What One Can Learn From Promtional Email

For my earlier holiday expectations see the following posts: Holiday 2012: Part I Holiday 2012: Part II Holiday 2012: Part III Holiday 2012: Part IV Holiday 2012: Part V Holiday 2012: Part VI Holiday 2012: Part VII Holiday 2012: Part VIII Holiday 2012: Part IX Holiday 2012: Part X We’ve seen Black Friday evolve in […]

Initial thoughts on Black Friday

You can see my previous holiday expectations and analysis here: Holiday 2012: Part I Holiday 2012: Part II Holiday 2012: Part III Holiday 2012: Part IV Holiday 2012: Part V Holiday 2012: Part VI Holiday 2012: Part VII Holiday 2012: Part VIII Holiday 2012: Part IX Here are my initial thoughts on today’s (and really […]

Holiday 2012: Part IX

For more of my holiday expectations: Holiday 2012: Part I Holiday 2012: Part II Holiday 2012: Part III Holiday 2012: Part IV Holiday 2012: Part V Holiday 2012: Part VI Holiday 2012: Part VII Holiday 2012: Part VIII Holiday 2012: Part IX On Wednesday afternoon I visited several retailers in advance of Black Friday.  As […]

The Changing Flow of Video – from the Tablet to the TV

The popular news site, Huffington Post, recently released a new iPad app to accompany the HuffPost  Live – the social video site it launched back in August.  As the app description states, HuffPost Live is a live-streaming video network that uses the most engaging stories on The Huffington Post as the jumping-off point for real-time […]

Books to Read

Whitney Johnson recently published a list of 11 books to read.  Looking forward to reading several on the list I haven’t had a chance to read yet.

The Role of Ultrabooks in Defining the Future of the Laptop

NPD’s Steve Baker has a good post  – even though it lacks the bite of much hard data.  Baker provides a reasonably sound estimate, that ultrabooks will represent 40-50 percent of the laptop market over $500 which equates to roughly 15 percent of the overall laptop market. For the month of September, Baker reported average […]

Holiday 2012: Part VIII

For more of my holiday expectations: Holiday 2012: Part I Holiday 2012: Part II Holiday 2012: Part III Holiday 2012: Part IV Holiday 2012: Part V Holiday 2012: Part VI Holiday 2012: Part VII A tremendous amount of Holiday and Black Friday news in the past few days. Let’s jump right into it:

On Voting – Bond Measures

There were a variety of referendums and other ballot measures this election. In Fairfax County there were four separate bond measures and each passed with a wide margin.  Surely each of these are “good” and “needed,” but on seeing the results I questioned if most voters understand how municipal bond issues work. There are two primary […]

The Future of Subscription Services

Amazon is testing a $7.99 monthly price point for Prime which currently only offers a $79 annual option. As I’ve written on in the past, Amazon has added a variety of services and offerings to Prime.  While Prime started with a focus on shipping options, it has blossomed into much more While many have focused on […]