Introducing Shopycat, a Facebook app for sort of maybe determining what to buy your friends and family for the holidays. Analytics at its finest? Not so much.
Now Kurt... why would one ever be so straightforward when instead we can get gift ideas by downloading some buggy Facebook app with an irrelevant cat mascot and mine the Facebook profiles of loved ones for barely usable information?
@dcuperus, That sounds more effective than this Shopycat nonsense, but of course it's also kind of depressing to think about automating gift ideas. But, yes, more useful for sure.
brain on Shopycat. Or whats left of it anyway. A better app would be what not to buy for your friends and family and ten compelling reasons why. It could be called Scrooogy.
What would your thoughts be on an application where you type in someone's e-mail and a survey is sent asking the recipient a series of questions that would provide potential gift ideas? The sent e-mail would have a heading such as "Someone is trying to find gift ideas for you this holiday season. Would you please answer the following questions?"
The filled out questionnaire would be sent to you with some gift ideas.
It would be an anonymous way to discover good gift ideas. Not, something I would use, but I think its far better than going to someones FB page to look for ideas.
Oh, yeah... and all the information you give will be properly stored, compiled and sold off to the highest bidder.
Hmmm. Doubtful. By the way, Kim, Shopycat couldn't even find you, Mary, or Terry, because you guys don't have any information in your Facebook profiles. You're only ruining your own holidays with your anti-Facebook ways!
Nicole and Kim have heard the news that Google's new mobile OS, "Jelly Bean," has a voice assistant that's poised to defeat their precious Siri. It's time for another test!
Apple's newest commercial features actress Zooey Deschanel having her requests for weather, soup, and music easily fulfilled by Siri. Nicole and Kim are putting those same questions to the test.
At the IBM Pulse conference, executives urged attendees to stop being guided by hype and start thinking about the cloud and other enterprise "toys" in terms of their own business outcomes.
There's a trend underway to make employee performance reviews everyone's business – letting peers, customers, and direct reports in on rating people's daily doings. Mary gives this a thumbs down.
Congrats to the best-selling author who persuaded Facebook to allow him to register an account as Salman, rather than under his "real" but never used name, Ahmed Rushdie.
Based on reactions in Nicole's Newsfeed, everyone hates this version of Facebook. This should matter to Facebook now that there's a real competitor on the scene named Google+.
Allowing users to share music and video on Facebook might sound like good news, but is this part of a coherent strategy, or is Facebook just stumbling from idea to idea?
Facebook's "Improved Friends Lists" are rolling out, but they're very different from Google+ Circles. The latter are like private labels; you're the only one who sees them. The former are like rooms you can invite visitors to, where they see you and each other. Google's approach is better.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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