Tony Hsieh: 'Hiring Mistakes Cost Zappos $100 Million' The True Cost Of Facebook Keeping Secrets From Its Users. Facebook recently announced three important projects, all of them potentially successful, all of them at risk. Why? Because the social network doesn't know how to communicate with its users. Note: Guest writer Ted Rheingold Is VP, Social at SAY Media and was the founder and CEO of Dogster.com and Catster.com. You can follow him on Twitter at tedr. First, in late September, the company introduced a gift-giving feature that promises big success.
This isn't the only thing Facebook has been up to. Less widely noted is that Facebook has partnered with Datalogix, a company that aggregates purchase data, which Facebook plans to use to track purchases made after seeing an ad on Facebook. Having watched Facebook community relations since its newsfeed launched and run the sizeable online communities of Dogster and Catster, I'm confident that Facebook has needlessly set itself on course to derail these initiatives, if only for a time.
Proactive Communication versus Reactive Mob. When A $65 Cab Ride Costs $192 : Planet Money. Hide captionUpdate: Several readers commented on the route shown in the map above. Lisa Chow took the car for purposes of this story, and chose a route that began and ended near NPR's New York offices. Lisa Chow Update: Several readers commented on the route shown in the map above. Lisa Chow took the car for purposes of this story, and chose a route that began and ended near NPR's New York offices.
I was in the car for about an hour, rolling around Manhattan in the middle of a snowstorm. The ride normally would have cost me $65. But when it came time to pay, my driver, Kirk Furye, was concerned for me. "Are you going to get in trouble with NPR? " Final cost of a one-hour cab ride: $192.00. I had found Furye through Uber, a company that makes an app that connects cabs and cars with people who are looking for rides. Uber calls this surge pricing; a lot of people might call it gouging. "When I first started out, I used to chase the surge," Furye said.
Obamacare's average monthly cost across U.S.: $328. By Caroline Humer (Reuters) - Americans will pay an average premium of $328 monthly for a mid-tier health insurance plan when the Obamacare health exchanges open for enrollment next week, and most will qualify for government subsidies to lower that price, the federal government said on Wednesday. The figure, based on data for approved insurance plans in 48 states, is the broadest national estimate for the cost of coverage when President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law takes full effect next year.
The prices of the new plans are at the heart of a political debate over whether they will be affordable enough to attract millions of uninsured Americans when enrollment begins on October 1. Obama, who is facing a Republican threat to eliminate funding for the law or shut down the federal government next week, said the fierce opposition stems from the fear that Americans will embrace the program. U.S. HHS said the average price was 16 percent lower than its own projections on premiums. Adrian Lamo on Bradley Manning: 'I knew my actions might cost him his life' Ed Pilkington: Let's start with the reason we're having this IM chat: Bradley Manning. We heard Manning himself recently describe his treatment during the nine months he was held in Quantico marine base on suspicion of having leaked hundreds of thousands of confidential US documents and videos to WikiLeaks. Have you been following the proceedings, and if so how closely? Adrian Lamo: My only exposure to the proceedings right now is the things that people ask me whether I've heard.
That sometimes disturbs folks' sense of perspective, as though it's wrong of me to have more to my life than Bradley Manning. It's not because I take it lightly, but because I take it as seriously as I do. Making the choice to interdict a man's freedom knowing it could mean his life, is something that's easy to judge but can only really be understood by living it. You either fold it into your character, come to terms and go on with your life, or you get stuck in that moment forever. AL: Heh.