Who are the product storytellers? Part matchmaker, marketer, technologist, and artist, the product storytellers ask questions, find answers, and figure out how to distill a vision or idea into a product story. They develop a plot, identify the people, and shape the product around the specific values it should offer consumers. Product storytellers think about the whole, and they see the big picture. But they also can go deep because they understand that the product's true value lies in the details of its interactions and every touchpoint that a consumer has with it.

Yes, cybercafes are a rich lode for study by social scientists — sociologists, cultural anthropologists, and social psychologists. It will not be a surprise if they start writing academic papers on these establishments and their impact on Philippine society.

If you're creating a web app for Filipino, I guess one of the things you really have to take into account is that most of the mass access internet via internet cafe so there internet time is most probably limited.

I guess one of the things that make @tweetitow work is that, those users who access internet via internet cafe can still get connected after they log off. So I'd sometimes get complaints like where are there posts for a week so it means they probably visit internet cafe on a weekly basis. Or, they would be like asking help from me trying to figure out how to register their number, and they would usually have an immediacy in their tone since their internet cafe time is almost over.

So it would probably mean a lot to these market segment to have a web app that is quick, and can somehow still let them be connected to their social network even offline.

Then there's the Facebook vs. Twitter vs. Foursquare angle. Users of the three social networks exhibit different behavior and different buying frequency. Foursquare users visit Tasti D-Lite more often than Twitter users, who visit more often than Facebook users, Emerson says.

"They're more mobile, they're more active," he says of the stores' Foursquare users. "We've got a year of results. For whatever reasons, it's pretty clear these location-based mobile customers are out and about more and visiting more often."

Emerson has also found that Foursquare users are younger and more thrifty than Twitter and Facebook users - meaning they spend less per visit. "The Foursquare people are looking to get a deal. Facebook is going to skew older, and Faceook users spend more than Foursquare users. Twitter is in the middle."

This might not be entirely true, but interesting observation.

Allen Ginsberg

When recipients were willing, Ginsberg would often inscribe books with a little something extra. We’re not sure what to make of all the “AH”s – anyone know? Our best guess: the seed syllable ‘ah’ in ‘Om Ah Hum’.

[via Poet's Path]

I love doodles. I have tons of doodles, only I'm not famous author. These doodles are close to my doodles. (count the doodles word)

The Rumor

Amazon has an “entire family” of Android devices that will launch this holiday shopping season.