Very cool, Polina - although I would adjust the 4th rule to say you may have links to support your thoughts as long you have one!
Nokia is already working on that, and they have an area called Mobile Adds dedicated exclulsively to intermediate publishers, advertisers and carriers. It may not be the future - but there are people out there betting on it!
http://advertising.nokia.com
Very interesting discussion. Microsoft has a very bad image for trying to lock users to its products, and Google certainly learned very well the lesson. They actually included in their values "you can make money without doing evil' to assure they only play according to its users' interests. We still believe they do. Not sure for how long.
It is a very good experimente, but I guess it really depends on the kind of product you are trying to sell. If it is a car or a mobile phone, you might prioritize more information instead of price. But if you are buying accessories or cheaper things you might go basically for price. At least this is how I buy on ebay!
I see a very thin line between what is subliminal and what is just interpreted as it - that is why I found difficult classify, and therefore regulate, subliminal. Even in traditional media there is a big debate about the effects (researchs does not confirm the results!) and how to regulate it.
With MP3 we are listening to more music and are learning more about music. Together with this process we must also learn how to deal with the amount of information and not lose the focus and the deepness of our experiences. For me it is a matter of learning how to balance quantity and quality, same for books, articles, videos etc. I still buy CDs when I like a band/singer, and I listen and enjoy it several times. And I highly recommend you to do the same!
For me rankings are still a powerful tool to drive consumer's opinion - although I am particularly very skeptical about the authenticity of them! People may start to concern about the accuracy of the information available, but until there companies and individuals may find room to play with this rankings and affect online decisions.
I also see a big risk in the combination: loads of individuals information
+ opportunity to drive people's opinion. They can even personalize search results according to previous information. And we still believe in freedom of choices? Scary...
Couldn't agree more that being multi-task make our lives less productive and our time much worse spent, but I can't sympathize with the idea of patronizing employees to decide whether they should access a particular service/website or not. If companies work for results, should be asked for results - not for a list of what we have been doing while we are online.
We are very much influenced by the environment, and I believe it is an individual daily effort to avoid entering the negative spiral and believing there is no more hope - not to mention the non-existent link between happiness and wealth. Life should be much more than that - and we must remind ourselves every morning of that!
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