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LavaLife Flirts With Virtual Dating

Cardinal Path blog post

Great minds think alike. (Or is it, “Fools seldom differ”?) Just as I was slamming online dating sites for not providing anything close to a real date experience, one of the biggest players — LavaLife — was working on that … Read Full Post

Category: General, Marketing Optimization, Social Media, Technologies, Usability

Chrome "instant" and massive inflation of pageviews

Cardinal Path blog post

Google has tossed a new feature into the latest dev builds of Google Chrome. I'm guessing part of Google's “search before search” campaign, Chrome “Instant” loads pages as you type them. Currently only available to the people brave enough to … Read Full Post

Category: Technologies, Web Analytics

Privacy, Cookies, and Tracking

Cardinal Path blog post

People frequently complain about cookies. They don’t like the idea that their actions are being tracked and watched, so they disable cookies outright. The thing is that cookies are really the least of your problems. Cookies may be a good … Read Full Post

Category: General, Technologies, Web Analytics

Google Wave is going to fail as an email alternative | Plus: free Wave invites!

Cardinal Path blog post

A little bit of futurism for the day. Yesterday I was reading an article on a blog that I've forgotten saying that Google Wave is going to fail as an email alternative. I'm going to go out on a limb … Read Full Post

Category: General, Technologies

Staring at the clouds with Nicholas Carr

Cardinal Path blog post

“The biggest hurdle, particularly with large companies, is convincing them that they don't have to run everything themselves.” said Nicholas Carr in the beginning of 2008. “We're going to see that, just as the electric grid dramatically expanded the availability … Read Full Post

Category: General, Technologies

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