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How To Stimulate Curiosity Monday, April 8, 2013 Curiosity is the engine of intellectual achievement—it’s what drives us to keep learning, keep trying, keep pushing forward. But how does one generate curiosity, in oneself or others? George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, proposed an answer in a classic 1994 paper, “The Psychology of Curiosity.” Curiosity arises, Loewenstein wrote, “when attention becomes focused on a gap in one’s knowledge. Camels and Rubber Duckies by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, December 15, 2004 You've just released your latest photo-organizing software. Through some mechanism which will be left as an exercise to the reader, you've managed to actually let people know about it. Maybe you have a popular blog or something.

Can George Loewenstein’s curiosity theory finally make behavioural economics work in MR? Behavioural economics keeps coming up in market research conversations. Surprisingly, I’ve never heard in that context one of the most important names in the discipline: George Loewenstein. Loewenstein’s work provides deep psychological insight into how consumers choose and value the products they buy. The Exact Match Domain Playbook: A Guide and Best Practices for EMDs Exact match domains have always been the source of a lot of contention among SEOs. For quite some time, EMD’s have offered a competitive advantage for SEO’s who understood how to use them. In the early days of search when relevance algorithms were rather weak, many folks used “double dashed” domains because they were cheap to buy, and easy to rank. $6 to rank for a 3 word phrase. Sold.

PayPal Launches PayPal Here, A Competitor To Square Designed By Yves Behar Today, Paypal announced PayPal Here, a triangle-shaped mobile creditcard-swiping gadget aimed directly at Jack Dorsey's reader, Square. And, just like Square, they’re aiming to convert customers with the power of their design: They tapped Fuseproject, the firm run by Yves Behar and a darling among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, to create the object. Obviously, the $4 billion in transactions being done every year on Square were an enticing market for PayPal. But PayPal is also trying migrate into offline, physical transactions. Amazon Drops Prices, FullContact Parses Names and 12 New APIs Amazon has dropped prices again on its popular Amazon EC2 API. CRM-as-a-service company FullContact added ambiguous name parsing as a useful new feature to its FullContact API. Plus: an API podcast, Facebook gaming and 12 new APIs. Amazon EC2 Lowers Pricing for the 19th Time Amazon highlights the latest pricing updates: Today’s Amazon EC2 price reduction varies by instance type and by Region, with Reserved Instance prices dropping by as much as 37%, and On-Demand instance prices dropping up to 10%.

The Consumer Buying Decision Process When people are buying something that’s important, expensive, or risky, they don’t generally do it on a whim. They go through a few stages weighing up options and looking at alternatives. Every step on this journey is one where they could lose interest. By plugging gaps between stages, you will generate and retain more profitable customers. 50 Cool CSS Menus, Free Source Codes + Tutorials - WebStockBox October 29th, 2009 If you’re looking for a nice menu for your web design or blog, this is a list of beautiful and cool CSS menus. Some menus have special effect with jQuery, javascript, or Mootool that make these menus have more interest such as slide menu, fading effect, cool animated and more. You can download and use these CSS menus for free and some have tutorials for you to redesign, create, or modify the code by yourself. 1.

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