The following is my live and raw blogging of Adam Trachtenberg’s session: New Ebay API Calls released today – most watched items – deals – related category items – top-selling products This uses eBay’s New Services Framework! This is an API upgrade… Cross Merchandising – sell products using the brand – promote contextually relevant market [...]
ebaydevcon08 – eBay Future Product Roadmap Session
by David Dalka on June 16, 2008 in Customer Experience
Twitter Question
by David Dalka on June 1, 2008 in Customer Experience, Social Media
A question to add to all of these posts asking Twitter questions: Will the AIM interface ever be fixed? I found posting from IM to be the easiest and fastest method, it’s been broken (or blocked by AIM?) for months dating back to 2007. What is the status of the Twitter AIM interface? Anybody?
TECH cocktail CONFERENCE Chicago – Creating Change For The Future
by David Dalka on May 31, 2008 in Blogging, Branding/Buzz/Viral, Change Management, Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship, Interactive Ads, Social Media, Venture Capital
Wow! That was tiring, I stepped on the L at 7:30AM and didn’t get home until 1:30AM the next morning! 18 hours of pure madness! Most people noticed the great speeches by Gary Vee from Wine Library TV and Dick Costolo (aka ask the wizard) and others. But what I really appreciated was the other [...]
TC08 Chicago – Ask The Wizard Live – Dick Costolo Talks Entrepreneurship
by David Dalka on May 29, 2008 in Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Dick Costolo gave a really raw, heartfelt talk about Feedburner, venture capital fund raising and venture capital. I won’t dwell on it here, but even though I’ve never worked directly on anything with Dick, we’ve had an amazing exchange of ideas and conversation over the years. Someday I hope I can take that relationship to [...]
TC08 Chicago – Designing With Users In Mind
by David Dalka on May 29, 2008 in Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship
The following is a brief summary of the session that Former Feedburner folks Matt Shobe and John Zeratsky (I need to spend some time with that guy sometime) put on at TECH cocktail Conference 08. Without further delay, here’s their tips on designing with users in mind! Be Yourself – informal, fun Be Fast – the [...]
TC08 Chicago – Looking at Technology For Your Business In New Ways
by David Dalka on May 29, 2008 in Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship
TECH cocktail CONFERENCE 08 in Chicago got started with Mike Domek, after which the guys from Threadless gave a simple and fun session with some practical insight… Problems Scaling…printers, vendors, etc Inventory is hard…. The Internet is Serious Business Dealing with problems that we are not prepared to deal with… (can be an advantage too) Advantages [...]
Dell Deleting Message Board Entries About Dell Inspirons
by David Dalka on May 27, 2008 in Customer Experience
During my recent Dell communications, I performed a Google blog search on – Dell Inspiron 1505 hinges Please focus on the second item: At the time that entry was still in Google blog search, it reached to a dead link. Why is Dell censoring and deleting information about these Inspiron line issues? Do they have [...]
Dell Hires New CFO Brian T. Gladden
by David Dalka on May 19, 2008 in Customer Experience
Good luck to him, I’d like to think that this might change the current dynamics I’ve recently laid out, but based on his background, I won’t get my hopes up…but oh my this AP story certainly raises questions about why Dell is nickel and diming customers if they can allocate this signing bonus and stock allocation…imagine [...]
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