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Why you can't get iPods at a discount

• Dec 22, 2006 from mrbabyman(Mr. Baby Man)
  If you've shopped for gadgets online this holiday season, you almost certainly found that the camcorder or DVD player you wanted was selling at a wide range of prices. Why is there so much price variation for the same product? And how come some gadgets, like the iPod, cost the same no matter where you shop?

Where Can I Shop For Iowa Car Insurance?

• Sep 26, 2011 from AutoInsuranceNews(Online Auto Insurance) in Business
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Top 10 Checkin Locations on Gowalla

• Jun 26, 2010 from mashable(Mashable) in Technology
  What are the most visited places by location-based social networkers? Besides major transit hubs like airports and rail stations which always top the charts Gowalla users are a global bunch who check-in at a variety of interesting locales.Using compiled data directly from Gowalla, weve rounded up the hottest spots in the networks 10 most popular cities. Have you checked-in at any of the locations featured? Let us know in the comments. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Austin, TX Austin is the capital of Texas, the state's fourth largest city, the birthplace of Gowalla itself, and its metro area is home to about 1.7 million people. Austin is also is home to the SXSW festival, which has attracted thousands of music, film, and tech lovers down South since 1987.Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - The Alamo Drafthouse, is a chain of movie theaters (with four in Austin) where Austinians can catch the latest Hollywood offerings and take in special second viewings of films like The Wiz, Meatballs, and quote-a-long showings of Anchorman. With waiters taking your order throughout the film, a fully stocked wet bar and a diverse menu offering so much more than popcorn and soda, even the worst movies don't seem so bad. Whole Foods and Uncle Billy's Brew & Que are Austin's other most popular check in destinations.[img credit: Bruce Turner] TD Garden - Boston, MA Boston is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and home to more than 4.5 million people in the greater Boston area. Known for its history as one of the oldest cities in the U.S., Boston is a center of academia, research and technology. But it's also the home to some of country's most passionate sports fans.TD Garden was built in 1995 and has undergone a number of titular changes. With a capacity to seat 20,000 people, the arena is home to the Boston Bruins, the Celtics, and the Boston Blazers. With three of the NBA playoff games between the Celtics and L.A. Lakers taking place in the last month, it's no wonder it's such a hot spot. Other popular locations include Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox, and Boston Common.[img credit: Chris Denver] Cloud Gate - Chicago, IL Chicago is the largest city in Illinois and in the entire mid-west region with a population of 2.8 million people. The "Windy City" is known as a center for jazz, architecture and the occasional political scandal.The Cloud Gate is a huge sculpture located at the AT&T; Plaza in Millennium Park. Completed in 2006 and designed by British artist Anish Kapoor, the 33 foot, by 66 foot, by 42 foot, stainless steel, bean-shaped piece, weights 110 tons. Other popular check in locations in "Chi-Town" include the Chicago Cub's Wrigley Field, and Millennium Park as a whole.[img credit: jmcmichael] Lincoln Memorial - Washington, DC Washington, DC is the nation's capital, the political center, and boasts a 5.3 million-strong population in the metropolitan area. With museums, monuments, and plenty of political history, the city is flooded with tourists, school children, interns, and policymakers.Along with Washington Nationals Park and the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is one of the most popular DC checkin places. Built in 1922 to honor the 16th President Abraham Lincoln, it's located on the National Mall (which includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, and National World War II Memorial) and is open for visiting 24-hours a day. Architect Henry Bacon designed the building, while Daniel Chester French sculpted the statue of "Honest Abe." The interior murals were courtesy of painter Jules Guerin.[img credit: Chadh] Trafalgar Square - London, UK London is the capital of England and the entire United Kingdom. With a population of 7.5 million people living within Greater London, the city is home to many famous historical and tourist-friendly sites like Buckingham Place, Big Ben and Kensington Market.Trafalgar Square is in the heart of London and is a huge tourist attraction. At the center is Nelson's Column, which is guarded by four lion statues. The square is a popular hang out location, and has been the site of many political protests and celebrations including New Year's Eve festivities. Art-loving Gowalla users also check in often at the Tate Modern when in London.[img credit: damo1977] Disneyland - Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States, with a population just shy of 15 million. Also known as The City of Angels, La-La Land or Hell-A, it's a city like no other and is best known for beaches, tans and Hollywood glamor.Disneyland opened in 1955 and has attracted close to 600 million guests to date. In 2009, 15.9 million visitors came to see Mickey Mouse and the rest of the Disney gang, making it the second most visited theme park in the world after Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Gowalla users check-in and share their favorite rides and attractions.[img credit: Kristian Vinkenes] Times Square - New York City New York City is...

5 Tips for Developing a Global-Friendly Website

• Oct 11, 2010 from mashdevdesign(Mashable - Dev & Design) in Technology
  The International Business Series is brought to you by UPS. Discover the new logistics. It levels playing fields and lets you act locally or globally. It's for the individual entrepreneur, the small business, or the large company. Put the new logistics to work for you.One of the most important aspects of the Internet is that it is location agnostic. Socio-political barriers aside, a website can be accessed by a user in Siberia or Silicon Valley. This location agnosticism is incredibly powerful, because it means that it is feasible to reach a large audience of users or customers, no matter where you're headquartered.However, just because the web allows individuals and businesses to reach out to the rest of the world doesn't mean that the rest of the world is always able to understand the message presented by the individual or business. When designing and developing websites, it's easy to fall into the trap of designing with a Eurocentric gaze.We've compiled some tips for making your website globally friendly. Add your own pointers in the comments below.1. Optimize for SpeedMaking sure your website loads quickly and efficiently is important regardless of your audience, but speed optimizations are incredibly important when trying to reach to a global market.If a website takes more than a few seconds to start to load or to show content, most users are going to give up and go someplace else. When targeting an international audience, you need to not only keep in mind the potential Internet connectivity options, but also how you are serving your content.The Yahoo Developer Network goes over some best practices and tips for speeding up your website.The entire document is worth a read, but if you are cultivating a global audience, one tip to keep in mind is to use a content delivery network. A content delivery network, or CDN, is basically a collection of web servers located at various locations all over the world. So instead of just having all of your content served from your web host in Los Angeles -- even if your visitors are in France -- you can speed up site performance by allowing content to be served from Paris.CDNs can be expensive, but even if you choose to only use them when serving certain types of media (like videos or photographs), it can greatly improve performance for your global visitors.2. Reduce the Use of Text in ImagesThe web is becoming a more accessible place on a global level, in large part because of machine translation systems like Google Translate. These systems are getting better and better at making it easier for users to translate websites written in other languages. However, machine translation doesn't work on graphical images.That means that if you frequently use static images for headings, aspects of a logo or for call-out information, you can be cutting off some of your audience.It's not realistic to expect that all websites get rid of all images with text, but thanks to the rise of web fonts, there are more options at a designer or developer's disposal for creating real text that is styled the way you want it to look, preventing the need for lots of text-based images.3. Allow Your Text to GrowOptimizing your website's text for global access goes beyond limiting the number of graphics that utilize text -- you also want to make sure your layout can survive machine translations.By this, we mean you want to make sure that when your text is written in English and converted to another Latin language, Cyrillic or an Asian language, the flow will be supported by your layout.Most modern websites that use dynamically generated content will flow correctly when converted to another language, but certain elements may have display problems, and it is important to test your site using a machine translation service to get an idea of how elements are displayed.4. The Cultural Meaning of ColorColor is one of the areas where designing a global-friendly site can become most difficult, because what a color connotes can vary greatly depending on culture. Green, for example, can represent serenity or eco-friendliness in the United States, but in some countries, it is associated with greed or naivete. We've heard that green can even indicate an unfaithful husband in China, so keep that in mind when picking out stock photos.Color is something you should be aware of with your website, but don't feel compelled to obsess over its subtle meanings too much. Focus in on your target or expected markets and find out what colors or color combinations work in those areas.5. Make Your Shopping Cart Internationally FriendlyIf you sell something on your website and offer international shipping, be sure to offer a way for users to convert payment into their own currency. It just doesn't make sense to accept payment from international users, to process international shipping, yet only offer the payment amount in one currency.There are a number of different API tools for completing exchange rate and currency conversions on...

10 Excellent Examples of Guerrilla Marketing Campaigns [VIDEOS]

• Oct 06, 2010 from mashable(Mashable) in Technology
  Guerrilla marketing works because its simple to understand, easy to implement and outrageously inexpensive, says Jay Conrad Levinson, the man who coined the phrase.Consumers have grown immune to big budget advertising, but marketers that expend a bit of time and effort rather than piles of money can generate effective results with inexpensive, small-scale stunts.Take a look through our gallery of guerrilla and street marketing examples, where promotions costing no more than a few dollars can have a big impact on the consumers. Let us know which you think are the most effective in the comments below. 1. Absolut This stupendously simple idea places Vodka-flavored temptation in the traveling consumer's way.The use of the luggage belt is more clever than you might initially think. First, it's a place a consumer is forced to wait, consequently making any distraction a welcome one.Second, it plays on the fact that -- even if you'd never act on it -- you've probably thought about how easy it would be to nab an interesting looking item from the belt and just walk off. 2. Nike By taking an instantly recognizable shared experience (the booted car, the parking ticket) and adding an element of fun (the big shoe and randomly targeting anonymous vehicles), Nike gets across its message, which under different circumstances could be seen as a little too preachy.This also serves to show that timing is everything. With the stunt taking place on "International Car Free Day," it adds legitimacy to what could be a slightly dubious, potentially invasive campaign. 3. Ikea Swedish furniture giant Ikea makes little public pockets of Manhattan a little nicer with whimsical street settings in the "Everyday Fabulous" campaign.Seeing such ordinary items in unexpected places is a great way to cement something in a consumer's mind, as well as actually get your physical product right under their noses -- not an easy feat under normal circumstances. 4. Libresse Libresse (or Bodyform as it's branded in the UK) dropped more than 3,000 gift packs of tampons on Dutch beaches, with the feminine hygiene products falling out of the sky on pink parachutes.The logic behind the "drop" was in response to Libresse data suggesting women avoid the beach during their period - hence the slogan, "With Libresse, you don't have to."However, we think the real success of the campaign was making a fun spectacle out of what society suggests we should keep under wraps.That, and the fact that the resulting video is chock-full of women in bikinis, all adds up to a successful promotional stunt. 5. Loctite Our favorite on this list for its sheer simplicity, Loctite's street marketing for its Super Glue 3 product can literally be found at street level -- as in glued to the sidewalk.Really, what better way is there to demonstrate the effectiveness of your adhesive than the old coin-glued-to-the-ground trick? 6. SIXT Car rental company SIXT's German agency came up with a novel super-solution to get its rental deals seen by visitors at the Hamburg airport.What makes this so innovative is not just making very affordable use of an existing platform, the Wi-Fi network, but that its target audience (professionals) was arguably the group most likely to be accessing that platform.Besides being a case study in clever guerrilla marketing, this is a great example of using the tools already at your disposal. 7. Lee The concept is not ground-breaking by any means, but what's notable about this campaign to raise awareness for a new Lee jean store opening in Paris is how far the team has gone to plaster Paris with Lee denim.The sheer scale of jean-covered parking meters, clothes lines, manhole covers and stickers would surely guarantee that no one in the area could fail to notice the grand opening. 8. UNICEF UNICEF took a very ordinary object -- a water vending machine -- and made it startling by filling it with bottles of disease-laden H2O to enlighten New Yorkers about how something we take for granted is not such a luxury in the developing world.While stopping passersby in their tracks with choices of malaria, cholera and typhoid-flavored "Dirty Water," the UNICEF staffers then got the message across that $1 is enough to ensure a child gets access to clean water for 40 days -- a simply bottled message that saw the donations roll in.It was a clever way to convey an issue, confronting those that live a life of luxury with stark realities from other parts of the world. 9. Volkswagen Let's face it -- any change from the mind-numbing daily commuting routine is a bonus, and Volkswagen really delivered the goods with this installation that offered the "Fast Lane" option.While the speed message suits a car marque well, so too the sense of fun suits the brand message of the particular car being promoted, the Polo GTi.Other parts of this campaign saw skateboards attached to shopping carts and an elevator pimped out as a space shuttle -- all slightly anarchic ways of...