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        <description>A blog on product design and innovation from frog design.</description>
        
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                <title>The conversation wars</title>
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Modernista</a> did it. <a href="http://www.skittles.com">Skittles</a> did it. And now the world&rsquo;s hottest advertising firm, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CPB), has done it, too: <a href="http://beta.cpbgroup.com/">the NY outfit has re-launched its corporate web site as a conversational social hub</a> that curates what is being said about CPB rather than staging ...]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:31:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Tim Leberecht</dc:creator>
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                <title>frog design, the book: How design strategies are shaping the future of business</title>
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Forgive this self-serving plug but I think this is worth sharing: My colleague, Frog Design founder and former CEO, Hartmut Esslinger, has written his first book, and it is available in stores now: <em><a href="http://www.afinelinebook.com">A Fine Line - How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business</a></em>. Part autobiography, ...]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:33:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Tim Leberecht</dc:creator>
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                <title>Get social now!</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<p>Several blog posts this week, combined, pinpoint what are arguably the two most influential trajectories for the impact of communication technologies on business these days: from real-time web to real-time business, and from social media to social business design.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s start with the former. Referring to Salesforce.com ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:41:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Tim Leberecht</dc:creator>
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                <title>Father&#039;s Day special: Baby care and meaningful marketing</title>
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<p>The $10 billion market for baby and young children&rsquo;s furnishings (cribs, other case goods, layette, nursery decor, and the like) and accessories (car seats, strollers, baby monitors, diaper bags, etc.) is a lucrative market, and the baby stroller is one of its most competitive sectors. Hundreds ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:20:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Tim Leberecht</dc:creator>
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                <title>Less is more. The tweet(ed) revolution.</title>
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<p>Looking at the many positive responses it received, Pico Iyer&rsquo;s recent NY Times blog post on &quot;<a href="http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/the-joy-of-less/?em">The Joy of Less</a>&quot; appears to have struck a chord:</p><p>&quot;But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:59:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Tim Leberecht</dc:creator>
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                <title>The iPhone is a subscription</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<p>The NYT&rsquo;s <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/the-iphone-is-a-subscription/" target="_blank">Bits Blog</a> spells out how the pricing for the iPhone basically turns it into a subscription, at least for people who want to upgrade their phone regularly. With the new prices and GS model announced Monday, there are now three tiers, as described by Bits:</p><ul><li><strong>The $</strong></li></ul>...]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:55:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Adam Richardson</dc:creator>
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                <title>Is advertising dead? The third way of building brand equity</title>
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<p>There seem to be three (non-mutually exclusive) models for marketers tasked with building brand equity: marketing scarcity, marketing artificial scarcity, or marketing relevance. 
</p><p>Scarcity seems to be at the core of all marketing: an exclusive, unique value that can be reproduced; an original idea replicated for many. </p>...]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:44:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Tim Leberecht</dc:creator>
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                <title>Microsoft Bing: The first real Google alternative</title>
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<p>Microsoft's new search engine, <a href="http://www.bing.com" target="_blank">Bing</a>, is the first real competitor to Google.</p> <p>I rarely use Google. Or rather, I rarely use Google.com. Because Google is embedded into Safari, I just use the search box there, which creates huge stickiness that's hard to displace. Of course, Microsoft has ...</p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:10:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Adam Richardson</dc:creator>
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                <title>Downstream solutions. Upstream problems.</title>
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                            <![CDATA[By Nick de la Mare</p><p>

<p>I saw an interesting article in the New York Times this weekend titled <a target="_blank" class="body" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/business/media/31ad.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=2&amp;ref=business">&quot;Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise.&quot;</a> The premise of the article goes something like this: because the web provides functionality to test every variation of a banner ad for ...</p></p>]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:50:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Tim Leberecht</dc:creator>
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                <title>UEFA Champions League final: What brands can learn from &#039;Barca&#039;</title>
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</p><p>I&rsquo;m nervous, seriously nervous. In a few hours, in the Olympic stadium in Rome, FC Barcelona (or &ldquo;Barca,&rdquo; as its supporters call it) will face Manchester United, the other soccer superpower, in the game of all games, the final of the UEFA Champions League, </p>...]]>
                        
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                <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:39:00 PDT</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Tim Leberecht</dc:creator>
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