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zipop··on Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Recordings of K-Mart In-Store Music from 1992
Thanks for the tip! I found it. Interestingly, this is a very boring version from the one I remember. What I recall was a kids voice saying something about buying his parents photos for Christmas or something. Still pretty cool. Thanks again!
zipop··on Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Recordings of K-Mart In-Store Music from 1992
For some reason I still remember the Kmart in-store ad from the early 80s. It was about the photo development at the Camera Bar. It went something like "Kmart now offers the Goof Proof Picture Perfect guarantee..." I'd love to hear that again.
zipop··on Google’s look, evolved
Yellow type on white is always bad design no matter how much the rest of the logo improves.
zipop··on The Fire Phone Is Officially a Failure
I have to wonder if Amazon's failure to recognize the obvious here has anything to do with Bezos' "we are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time." That statement has always kind of bothered me. I get what he was trying to say but I have to think they believe they can innovate against markets.
zipop··on Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey
I'm not opposed to what Musk is trying to do but how or why are auto dealers a monopoly? Those direct sales laws were originally created to preserve small business.
zipop··on Followr, Twitter Bots, and Ethical Considerations
I like this idea. You can learn a ton about behavior with a little traction.
zipop··on The slippery slope
Or you could be like Facebook and just ignore request to unsubscribe by hitting their unsubscribe button.
zipop··on Why the McWrap Is So Important to McDonald's
I think their real problem is preservatives.
zipop··on Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo
It wasn't a good logo to begin with. Lets start there. It's trying too hard to be literal and fit into the blue round boundaries of most other browser logos. And I honestly don't know whether the tail is supposed to be stylized fire or not. The asymmetry and distracting hi lights bother me too. In order to evolve and mature a logo it has to be solid to begin with. Otherwise updating it just makes it fall apart.
zipop··on The making of Medium.com
I reallyyy like what you've done. Similar to http://pen.io
zipop··on The making of Medium.com
Medium does not seem to have a way to post from an iPad. It says I have an unsupported browser. Really, Medium? Or am I missing something?
zipop··on Reddit’s Pitch deck to Advertisers
I wish it wasn't the case but sadly reddit does not deliver for advertisers. Any good pitch deck would include testimonials and case studies. Those ads on slide 8 with thousands of comments are run many, many months if not longer to collect all those comments. The comments I've received on my Reddit ads are a litany of haters. Why advertise to people not willing to support their advertisers and spend money? Not in every case but I have to believe by and large this is true. I will say for their pitch deck, they are representing their cat loving constituent well. So there's that.
zipop··on Why is my TI-99/4A in Black and White?
Site is: 10 Call Clear
zipop··on Apple is losing the war of words
Gassée: still bitter after all these years.
zipop··on Show HN: CropUp, Sell your _______ on _______
I think 10% will create a rather large barrier to entry for most.
zipop··on How Facebook Gets Away With Being Broken On Purpose
This is what happens when you build a business on top of free users then attempt to make money later - not that there is anything wrong with that.
zipop··on Google Glass
Maybe I'm not seeing (no pun intended) it, but I don't want something distracting to me and others sitting on my face. I get lifecasting will be a cool thing but I'd rather have a discreet cam on my shirt collar or elsewhere on my person.
zipop··on "Website like Amazon"
"Budget: $750 - $1,000"

Too bad. I would have done it for $749.

zipop··on Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
I'm not a Facebook hater but I don't have the time to keep up with all of their questionable tactics so I recently unliked everything and removed my profile and cover photos which I know understand are public. I also removed everything from my profile descriptions. Gaining my trust they are not.
zipop··on Browse Amazon, Randomly
That would have been good to know before I started clicking. DANG!
zipop··on It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something
Smells like Nirvana!
zipop··on Reddit's visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page views
Inexpensive unique gifts.
zipop··on Reddit's visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page views
Not to be offensive but advertising on Reddit is basically trolling for cheapskates. Sure you may get a little traffic but they don't buy anything. I know from experience.
zipop··on [dead]
Amen.
zipop··on Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy
Yes, and that's my point.
zipop··on Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy
How Instagram uses celebrity photos is not at the top of my list of concerns.
zipop··on Instagram vs Twitter: A Solution
Not sure, but I don't think it's about improving ones sleep. It's about screwing Twitter.
zipop··on Don't read TechCrunch
The only reason I read (skim) TC is to get a feel for what's hot. That's it.
zipop··on Why Mark Cuban is wrong about Facebook
"Mark Cuban, you can afford $0.003 per fan to increase Mavs home game attendance. C’mon son!"

Telling people what they can afford is not a very well thought out argument.

zipop··on Sorry Dan Shipper and other coders, you are wrong.
Point well taken. I will take encouragement from it. Thanks.
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