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Vlad Zachary
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Director Omni-channel commerce at Upshot Commerce. Founder of Pingwyn LLC, surfer, UX evangelist. Mobile apps maniac. Tribal chief and occasionally a silly Dad. ☮ ♥ Get Pingwyn for iOS now - it's free. http://www.pingwyn.com
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Can't have 100% security and 100% privacy
With these famous words president Obama justified the NSA Spy-on-Americans program. Technically he is correct and while the government focus is mostly on the 100% security - we are more concerned with the 100% loss of privacy, which seems to be the direction we are headed ... via pingwyn.typepad.com Continue reading
Reblogged Mar 12, 2015 at Pingwyn Blog
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Dear Diary! - A first account of what I hope is a new stage for Pingwyn
Posted Oct 10, 2013 at Pingwyn Blog
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Can't have 100% security and 100% privacy
Posted Jul 23, 2013 at Pingwyn Blog
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Mobile Shopping in numbers
Posted Jun 30, 2013 at Pingwyn Blog
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Mobile Computing remains driven by entertainment and Facebook
Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Pingwyn Blog
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Mobile Hotel Booking While in Freefall
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Posted Aug 8, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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More than half of US viewers will use a mobile device to watch the Olympics
Posted Jul 24, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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A formula for success in Mobile
Posted Jun 4, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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Deploy your network (Read time 0:23 sec)
Most people believe good judgment is a requirement for success, but the truth is - withholding your judgment can make you more successful. What do you do instead? Deploy the network around you. All these friends and acquaintances on LinkedIn, Facebook, Quora, etc. - ask their opinion, solicit their experience... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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KNOWING - repost from J Michael Dolan's blog
I have to share this in its entirety - from the blog of J Michael Dolan: "I was 29 when I started Music Connection magazine. 0-money, 0-experience. I couldn’t PROVE to anybody that MC was going to work. But I could KNOW it. I was holding it in my hands... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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Obvious to You - Amazing to Others
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Posted Apr 10, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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We can do this ...
Sometimes it's best communicated in a short video: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SbJIi6nUs2s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Continue reading
Posted Mar 8, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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The Battle Within - read time 34 sec
This is the one they don't teach you how to win in Business School and no - it is not the battle with your inner demons. I mean the battle within one's own camp. The freshly minted MBA imagines that the CEO rules his army. Not at all. The army... Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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Rockstart
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Posted Feb 17, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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The illusion of privacy (and what we actually care about)
No, we don't actually have privacy. We traded it long time ago for convenience. What we really dislike is being surprised by how much companies know about us. Perhaps soon we will get used to this too ... Here is more on the subject by Seth Godin: You probably have... Continue reading
Reblogged Feb 17, 2012 at Pingwyn Blog
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One Network to Rule Them All
Facebook is undeniably a great success story and ... a very lucky idea. If we look at the urgency with which Mr Zuckerberg is trying to 'improve the user experience' and give us even more reasons to stay with his creation - then we can easily see that he is... Continue reading
Posted Dec 29, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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No one ever bought anything in an elevator
The purpose of an elevator pitch isn't to close the sale. The goal isn't even to give a short, accurate, Wikipedia-standard description of you or your project. And the idea of using vacuous, vague words to craft a bland mission statement is dumb. No, the purpose of an elevator pitch... Continue reading
Reblogged Dec 19, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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When Google comes calling...
What would happen if Google, or Facebook come calling? This is a question that comes up all the time, when we discuss the future of Pingwyn. My answer always is - we have our business goals and they have theirs. Nobody will try to copy us before we prove ourselves... Continue reading
Reblogged Nov 25, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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Pingwyn is now live. Dowload from iTunes.
Posted Nov 14, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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Posted Oct 17, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Posted Oct 5, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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Type your own story
An interesting thing happened this morning on Amazon as I was checking the latest novel by Steven Pressfield – The Profession. A paragraph in the opening pages struck me as inspiring so I decided to type it up from the screen and share it with my Facebook friends. Now I... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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Check-in for just a badge! Really?
The biggest potential for Location-based Advertising (LBA) is in its reach, relevance and ability to deliver immediate results. The users get relevant, timely and actionable ads. They can take advantage of these ads immediately - on the spot and at the time they get the ad. The advertisers get better... Continue reading
Posted Sep 20, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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Make sure you make this choice
Acquiring and processing user feedback is a choice. via sethgodin.typepad.com Seth again makes a very important point and it is about making the choice to listen or not to listen to the customer complaints. It is mind-boggling how many companies have not made that choice and as a result they... Continue reading
Reblogged Sep 20, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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In one day Whole Foods spent $10 million for Social Marketing
Posted Sep 14, 2011 at Pingwyn Blog
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