Category Archives: Web Fragments

How We’ll Really Feel if Robots Take Our Jobs

Visitors staying at Starwood’s Aloft Hotel in Cupertino, California, not only have the luxury of humans greeting them and toting around their luggage. They also may be taken care of by a robot bellhop, named Botlr, who is mainly charged with delivering toiletries to guests’ rooms and eliciting smiles along the way. Of course, by… Read More »

Foundation And Big Data

The Internet has become the world’s Sorting Hat: it identifies, and increasingly defines, the subculture(s) to which people belong. Does your Facebook feed feature Mother Jones or Fox News? The Guardian or The Telegraph? GamerGate vs Social Justice Warriors. Civil libertarians vs. terror-thumping authoritarians. r/parenting vs. r/childfree. Second Life vs. Digital Detox. Such distinctions existed… Read More »

Negotiation tips

If you’re in business, you negotiate–every day of the week. While you may not be negotiating multimillion-dollar deals with customers or vendors, chances are you’re negotiating all sorts of things–from a hoped-for raise, to a flexible work schedule, to a plum assignment on a product development team. Negotiation is a skill that gets better with… Read More »

Help Your Overwhelmed, Stressed-Out Team

Is your team stressed out? These days, everyone seems overwhelmed and way too busy. But even when your team members have a lot on their plates, they don’t have to sacrifice their health or happiness. What can you do to reduce your team’s stress? How can you help them focus on what really needs to… Read More »

Amazon AWS Reference Architecture

A place to start for each Amazon Web Services projects: http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/ Interesting eCommerce architectures: 1) AWS_ac_ra_ecommerce_webfrontend_14 2) AWS_ac_ra_ecommerce_checkout_13 3) AWS_ac_ra_ecommerce_marketing_15 You can find more info about this topic on Amazon Web Service site: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/three-new-aws-reference-architectures-for-e-commerce/

Web Influences Half of Retail Sales

In 2011, more than $1.1 trillion in retail sales could be attributed to “web-influenced” purchases (offline retail sales influenced by online research), according to a white paper released in October 2011 by Group M Search and Compete. Data from “Search’s Role in the New Retail Shopper Profile” indicates that combined with measured online sales, 48% of… Read More »