Monday’s Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
After a brief discussion about exactly why MailChimp would want a billboard, the consensus was that we wouldn’t try to sell anything, we wouldn’t pander to anyone, we wouldn’t even advertise any features, like our new drag-and-drop editor (though that is pretty sweet). Instead, we just wanted to make MailChimp users smile.
When return on investment is measured by delight instead of sales or conversions, there’s a lot more freedom to be creative, to be bold, or maybe even to be creative and bold. It was liberating to begin the project knowing that our metrics were much closer to Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index than the kind of metrics that analysts or shareholders of a public company might expect.
Monday’s Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
And your geek link of the day:
The object in question—called MACS0647-JD—is the red blob in the inset. If the calculations hold out, that gloppy looking thing may be at the mind-crushing distance of almost 13.3 billion light years. The light we see from it started on its way when the universe itself was only 420 million years old. Just typing that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Friday’s Interactive News
Today’s edition of quick hits that won’t necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to you:
- Second screen devices ‘omnipresent and not just among the young,’ finds Nielsen report
- Twitter Adds a New Way to Share Tweets From the Web
- Mobile Payments Will Top $1 Trillion Worldwide by 2017
- An Organizational Structure That Supports Your Digital Presence
- How a Small Business Uses Social Media to Generate Leads and Deliver Customer Service
And your geek link of the day:
