Category Archives: The Pikimal Mission

Tell Us The Piki You Want To See, And We’ll Let You Peek Behind The Splash Page

If you haven’t had the opportunity to play with a Piki, but you’re anxious to get started finding the swag that meets your specs, contact us via Facebook, Twitter, or leave us a comment on our blog. Tell us the … Continue reading

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Pissed About The Fisher-Price Recall? Rate Down Hazardous Toys At Your Favorite Product Review Site

Yesterday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission released a report that made this blogger feel just a tad defensive of her favorite childhood toy (I admit it was Barbie). Mattel’s subsidiary Fisher-Price recalled 11 million toys on grounds of being hazardous … Continue reading

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One Algorithm Does Not Fit All: As Religious Engines Join The Fray, We Set Out To Piki The World Of Alternative Search

Yahoo! recently reported on a new crop of its own underdog competitors: religious search engines that filter out sin-inducing results, such as links related to alcohol, porn and websites that publish other worldviews. The short list includes the Christianity-based SeekFind, … Continue reading

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One Algorithm Does Not Fit All: As Religious Engines Join The Fray, We Set Out To Piki The World Of Alternative Search

Yahoo! recently reported on a new crop of its own underdog competitors: religious search engines that filter out sin-inducing results, such as links related to alcohol, porn and websites that publish other worldviews. The short list includes the Christianity-based SeekFind, … Continue reading

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And The Winner Is… P&G! The Pharmaceutical Company’s Marketing Spending Exceeds 4x Spending On R&D, Beating Out Microsoft, Cisco And Google

Major corporations know that the fastest way to increase revenue is not to create more innovative, user-focused products, but to spend more time convincing customers to buy their old products. We investigated the spending reports of 17 corporations, only five … Continue reading

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And The Winner Is… P&G! The Pharmaceutical Company’s Marketing Spending Exceeds 4x Spending On R&D, Beating Out Microsoft, Cisco And Google

Major corporations know that the fastest way to increase revenue is not to create more innovative, user-focused products, but to spend more time convincing customers to buy their old products. We investigated the spending reports of 17 corporations, only five … Continue reading

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Demand Media Web Content Isn’t Only Insanely Boring, It’s Dangerously Misleading To Consumers

Since Wired’s 2009 piece about Demand Media, there have been a flurry of articles covering “content farms,” or massive, sprawling sites with huge amounts of content, that produce their content extremely cheaply by paying the writers of the content very … Continue reading

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Demand Media Web Content Isn’t Only Insanely Boring, It’s Dangerously Misleading To Consumers

Since Wired’s 2009 piece about Demand Media, there have been a flurry of articles covering “content farms,” or massive, sprawling sites with huge amounts of content, that produce their content extremely cheaply by paying the writers of the content very … Continue reading

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This Is Your Brain On Marketing

Do you sometimes meet people who claim that marketing doesn’t affect them? Introduce them to British illusionist Derren Brown, who tricks his friends by bombarding them with clever suggestions and wordplay, and his antics might change their tune. Derren Brown … Continue reading

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This Is Your Brain On Marketing

Do you sometimes meet people who claim that marketing doesn’t affect them? Introduce them to British illusionist Derren Brown, who tricks his friends by bombarding them with clever suggestions and wordplay, and his antics might change their tune. Derren Brown … Continue reading

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