Archive for May, 2009

Google Wave – What Email Would Look Like If It Were Invented Today

What is a Wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the [...]

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Economy, Reliability and Quality

Toyota took out a full-page ad on page 7 in The Star today:
“Economy, reliability and quality”
The ad is about the Avanza. The last time I saw ads for the Avanza was in 2004 or 2005. So why the splurge of advertising dollars on a model that’s about 6 years old? The huge emphasis on the [...]

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Why the Honda City is no longer ugly

Previously I posted that the Honda City was deliberately made ugly in order for Honda to reap the higher profit margins of the Civic. My theory was that Honda wants people to go for the Civic if they could afford it and not be content with the City. What economists would call price differentiation, and [...]

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