Tag Archives: netflix

Online Video News – Netflix’s DVD business: Does Qwikster have a future?

How long until Qwik­ster becomes just another for­got­ten piece of inter­net real estate?

September 20, 2011 – 11:23 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Wired – How Online Companies Get You to Share More and Spend More

Always neat see­ing psy­chol­ogy at play espe­cially with com­pa­nies that excel at it.

July 15, 2011 – 1:50 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Marketing, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again

If it wasn’t so frus­trat­ing you have to almost admire Repub­li­cans abil­ity to ignore their own experts or exam­ples when legislating.

April 10, 2011 – 1:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Seth’s Blog – A culture of testing

I really enjoy that last sen­tence and Net­flix is prob­a­bly one of the great busi­ness built up around test­ing every­thing possible.

January 24, 2011 – 8:27 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, User Experience | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Subtraction.com – Blu-Ray Blues

I’ve thought about pur­chas­ing a Blu-Ray player but I keep avoid­ing it due to crap like this.

January 10, 2011 – 11:52 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

TechCrunch – Google, Facebook To Microsoft’s Paul Allen: Your Argument Is Invalid

Yet another exam­ple of stu­pid and worth­less soft­ware patents.

August 27, 2010 – 3:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Why the Netflix/WB deal isn’t a bad thing – johnaugust.com

Net­flix will now wait 28 days before send­ing out just released DVD’s from Warner­Broth­ers, in exchange for cheaper and larger access for their stream­ing service.

January 7, 2010 – 10:30 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off