It appears that there are some downfalls to any centralized service … including an identity management tool:

Tags: openID, bugs, identity2.0, identity, john koetsier

Why doesn’t anybody sell flowers and chocolate?
I need a few gifts for co-workers who are really doing an amazing job. I was thinking flowers and a box of fine chocolates. Why do I have to go to two different stores to do that?
Someone should sell both. I think they’d make a killing.
Tags: flowers, […]

Advertising this good deserves recognition:

This is marketing from people who have read the Cluetrain. This is marketing from people who give a damn. This is marketing from people who are having fun.
If all advertising was this good you wouldn’t need to skip commercials.
Tags: ad, advertising, kodak, kodak moment, guts, […]

Was checking out Steve Poland’s new Web 2.0 For Sale website after seeing it mentioned on Techcrunch.
Great idea, but the low price ($10 for a month’s worth of listing) seriously negatively impacts quality.
Right now there’s mostly lousy domain names for sale and out-of-touch naifs trying to sell unknown and unsuccessful social bookmarking sites for $2,000,000. […]

Today I passed the 100,000 mark: Akismet has protected me from over 100,000 comment spams.
Wow.
Without Akismet, I think it’s fairly safe to say that there would be no comments enabled on this blog.
And that would suck.
Tags: akismet, blog, comment spam, john koetsier

I had no idea that chocolate was only for men. But then again, I’ve never been to Russia:

In case that’s not quite clear enough, there’s a warning on the back:

My niece just came back from Russia - visiting with her dance troupe. Amazingly, she attended a session in Catherine the Great’s private theatre. She also […]

Saw a link to Clotaire Rapaille’s interview on The Persuaders on 37signals’ blog a couple of days ago … and I’ve been mulling it over ever since.
He’s a psychiatrist-turned-brand-marketer, and he helps companies understand what people are really thinking (as opposed to what they’ll tell you) and why they really do things (as opposed to […]

Funny:

glumbert.com - Supermarket 2.0
Tags: web2.0, funny, store, john koetsier

I like this distinction by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin:

Real Reasons are intuitive and compelling to all of us, but they’re not immediately logical. They’re exactly the opposite of Acceptable Reasons, which are eminently logical but neither intuitive nor emotionally compelling.

Tags: reasons, logic, intuition, john koetsier

I popped into the local Toyota dealership a couple of days ago …
I’m looking for a car, and since our company is going through a lean transformation (essentially, we trying to grow a culture based on the Toyota Production System) I thought I’d check out the products of that process.
Unfortunately, while all of Toyota’s products […]