Netflix, Gamefly, USPS and behavioral economics
25 Oct
Posted by Emrecan Dogan as Behavioral Economics, Media, Social
FeedFlix, a Netflix API service, says that Netflix is losing 0.3% of DVDs it is shipping. GameFly, which gives the same Netflix-style service for video games, is unhappy about ~1.0% loss rates for the DVDs it is shipping. Probably for that reason and some others, they filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission. USPS [...]
Google Reader started offering a new sorting method for blog posts: Sort by magic. While many tech evangelists have already declared RSS-reading dead and migrated to Twitter-style micro-sharing, I still think RSS is by-far the most effective learning tool/platform on earth (maybe on par with the courses I am taking in Stanford GSB). There is a [...]
Future of Filmed Entertainment – who should thrive and why? (Part 1 of 3)
19 Oct
Posted by Emrecan Dogan as Expectations, Media, platforms, Strategy, What is Next
Future of filmed entertainment will not be that different from what it is today – in terms of complexity and number of players participating. But, as the pie is large, there are lots of hopeful and agressive firms out there trying to close a prime estate in the white space. This post is by no [...]
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