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Parasitic Marketing

June 14, 2010
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(Par-a-site) n. 1.  An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host. Fill a need. Position accordingly. Profit. It’s that simple. Parasites do this better then anyone. They fill holes in a product and in turn leverage that product’s popularity to [...]

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What is Geolocation’s Endgame?

May 10, 2010
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Want to confuse someone? Start talking about the importance of geotargeting, user profiles and predictive data modeling. Now ask them if they’ve checked into Foursquare yet. Geolocation is hot. As in, $150-million-dollars hot. Why shouldn’t it be? It blends mobile, contextual information, gaming and serendipity into a relevant experience, enabling users to change their behavior [...]

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Gaming Mechanics: The Illusion of Openness

May 3, 2010
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Video games used to be fairly straightforward: a world to save, a princess to rescue or finding a piece of fruit. However, as consumers’ tastes evolved? The games have kept pace and have exceeded the limits of what was thought to be  previously impossible. Today’s games are largely “sandbox” based meaning that they have a [...]

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I Believe in Advertising. Now it Has to Believe in Me.

April 13, 2010
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Advertisers make more money during the first broadcast of any event. They can charge more for the airtime on the assumption that they will have more viewers for that broadcast. Subsequent broadcasts and syndication lower the cost of entry for brands wishing to advertise. This is the assumption that all media buys are negotiated off [...]

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Social Savvy: Thread

April 5, 2010
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People are social creatures. It’s inevitable that the technology we create serves to improve upon and augment our current behavior. One of the most interesting (and inevitable) uses of social technology is taking the search for a mate online. It’s big business. Online dating has evolved from a cottage (and rather sketchy) industry to a [...]

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The Arrogance of Creation

March 29, 2010
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Is creation the pinnacle of achievement? The success and failure of industry is based on this idea. Think about all that it takes to build something: an idea, a plan, people and resources to execute and the budget/organization to make sure it all happens. Once you have created said product you would either put it [...]

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