http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress The Intersection of Marketing, Tech, & Social Science Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:29:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After all the press lately about online casual gaming, I decided it was finally time to join the 70 Million other people who currently play FarmVille (down from 80 Million 4 months ago). Sidenote: to put that in perspective - Twitter - a media darling for 2 years now - ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=172 Ok. I'm a bit cagey when it comes to the specifics, but let's talk brass tax for a moment: I lost 50 lbs in 8 months. And 8 months later, I've kept it off despite being a 26-year-old who guzzles soda, loves his pizza and Mickey D's with great gusto, ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=161 As working from home becomes more and more prevalent in our workforce, I'm confronted by my own experience with it. Big corporations tout words like work-life balance as a big reason to encourage their employees to work from home. Another might be that rather than offer free lunches, free dry-cleaning, ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=154 Disclaimer: I usually don't write personal posts on this blog - I save them for the other one that no one reads. :) But I'm trying something new. If this isn't your particular brand of vodka, please skip. It recently hit me - for the first time perhaps - that ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=148 While most of us where scratching our heads wondering who our celebrity doppelganger might be, there was a second more fascinating Facebook Fad afoot. After the tremendous success of a Facebook Group called Secret London - which quickly amassed over 180,000 in as little as 18 days, similar groups such ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=140 I was recently talking to my dad, a chemical engineer whose been working for 30 years, about searching for new jobs, and I mentioned that I was doing "informationals" - he wasn't familiar with the term. Then I talked to a student who works with me, managing IT for the ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=136 I've recently been researching a fascinating startup called AdMob. After doing some research, I would compare them to the DoubleClick of mobile - they essentially are a mobile ad platform that brings together advertisers who want to spend marketing dollars to reach people, with developer, who are building mobile webpages, ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=134 I've come to a bit of a quarter-life crisis. Questions have been raised that I don't have good answers to. "What's the next step? "Where do you want to be in 5 years?" It seems we are all struggling with such questions. I can't tell you how many amazing young ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=113 Twitter built a powerful service - a great tool for communicating. And then one day looked up and realized their best shot at monetization - searching through tweets and people for information - was being done by someone else. They went and bought that company, and incorporated it as Twitter ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=109 I recently met Danah Boyd at a Microsoft Research event called TechFest (you can watch some of the coverage of cool new gadgets here). She was giving a talk titled "Social Media is here to stay. Now What?" Rather than just regurgitating what she said, I thought I'd tell you about how her ... http://dailydoseofpras.com/wordpress/?p=104