Comments on: Branding and People’s Desires to Avoid It http://www.techipedia.com/2006/branding-and-peoples-desires-to-avoid-it/ tamar weinberg is a digital marketing specialist, social media consultant, and tech geek at heart Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gail Gardner http://www.techipedia.com/2006/branding-and-peoples-desires-to-avoid-it/#comment-114863 Gail Gardner Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:25:41 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2006/11/15/branding-and-peoples-desires-to-avoid-it/#comment-114863 Always happy to share especially with someone of your calibre. Someone once asked me whether I had an opinion on everything. My reply was only on the subjects I had researched and thought about which are myriad. Always happy to share especially with someone of your calibre. Someone once asked me whether I had an opinion on everything. My reply was only on the subjects I had researched and thought about which are myriad.

]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://www.techipedia.com/2006/branding-and-peoples-desires-to-avoid-it/#comment-114801 Tamar Weinberg Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:29:34 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2006/11/15/branding-and-peoples-desires-to-avoid-it/#comment-114801 ha, well I wrote this over 3 years ago and this blog was a baby then, so it makes sense that there were no comments :D Thanks, Gail, for your insights. That's REALLY interesting and it was fun to read. :) ha, well I wrote this over 3 years ago and this blog was a baby then, so it makes sense that there were no comments :D

Thanks, Gail, for your insights. That’s REALLY interesting and it was fun to read. :)

]]> By: Gail Gardner http://www.techipedia.com/2006/branding-and-peoples-desires-to-avoid-it/#comment-114729 Gail Gardner Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:20:35 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2006/11/15/branding-and-peoples-desires-to-avoid-it/#comment-114729 I find it very interesting that there is not a single comment on this post. Assuming that you really would like to know - and since I am definitely just the kind of person you are talking about in this post - I will make the time to answer. I am a major proponent of making the world a better place through supporting independent small and online businesses and avoiding adding to the dangerous monopolistic power amassed by the few multi-national, publicly-traded plutocratic Corporations. Having spent 23 years as a tech at IBM I know the history of the PC and owned some of the very first models. I know how Microsoft made sure each update would not work with non-Microsoft software and still forces us to upgrade to use even their own hardware. I know how they did away with Netscape. No brand who behaves in that manner can win me over no matter how creative or slick their marketing may be. In spite of the challenges of not using Windows, I go out of my way to use the Ubuntu Operating System. When my favorite sites get absorbed by Google or Yahoo I immediately start looking for the next independent replacement. Although I have Google accounts and even a gmail account, I will never use gmail as my primary email. Why would I voluntarily allow any entity to data-mine and store my personal interactions? Few realize the true power of data-mining but I do and have an entire category in my blog devoted to privacy and data-mining. (Many have gmail accounts associated with their own domains and don't even know it!) I encourage businesses and individuals to choose independent solutions and am especially concerned about the combined information Google now has because of their huge analytics market share. Every time I sign into a Google Analytics account and see an ecommerce site that relies on Google traffic for 70-90% of their sales I fear for their continued existence - even though they may not. My favorite search engine is DuckDuckGo and I wish Zuula would add them so I can run their blog search against that search engine. I am switching from FeedBurner to Feedblitz and am sorry that Yahoo absorbed both them and MyBlogLog. I loved FriendFeed and was very active there - until Facebook bought them. I still use it once in a while but my heart isn't in it. I love StumbleUpon but since they ignore their evangelists, don't acknowledge suggestions, and sometimes ban quality sites the same way Google treats their users I would love to find a replacement. I would move on and never look back. My primary email has been down more than it has been up lately which is a likely indication that they are being integrated and have run into technical difficulties. I found riseup.net today and they look good for being my new email provider so far. Those who think the way I do know the world would be a better place if we supported small local and online businesses. That is easy to do: simply spend your time and money with them instead of publicly-held Corporations who focus almost exclusively on profits. I find it very interesting that there is not a single comment on this post. Assuming that you really would like to know – and since I am definitely just the kind of person you are talking about in this post – I will make the time to answer.

I am a major proponent of making the world a better place through supporting independent small and online businesses and avoiding adding to the dangerous monopolistic power amassed by the few multi-national, publicly-traded plutocratic Corporations.

Having spent 23 years as a tech at IBM I know the history of the PC and owned some of the very first models. I know how Microsoft made sure each update would not work with non-Microsoft software and still forces us to upgrade to use even their own hardware. I know how they did away with Netscape. No brand who behaves in that manner can win me over no matter how creative or slick their marketing may be.

In spite of the challenges of not using Windows, I go out of my way to use the Ubuntu Operating System. When my favorite sites get absorbed by Google or Yahoo I immediately start looking for the next independent replacement.

Although I have Google accounts and even a gmail account, I will never use gmail as my primary email. Why would I voluntarily allow any entity to data-mine and store my personal interactions? Few realize the true power of data-mining but I do and have an entire category in my blog devoted to privacy and data-mining. (Many have gmail accounts associated with their own domains and don’t even know it!)

I encourage businesses and individuals to choose independent solutions and am especially concerned about the combined information Google now has because of their huge analytics market share. Every time I sign into a Google Analytics account and see an ecommerce site that relies on Google traffic for 70-90% of their sales I fear for their continued existence – even though they may not.

My favorite search engine is DuckDuckGo and I wish Zuula would add them so I can run their blog search against that search engine.

I am switching from FeedBurner to Feedblitz and am sorry that Yahoo absorbed both them and MyBlogLog. I loved FriendFeed and was very active there – until Facebook bought them. I still use it once in a while but my heart isn’t in it.

I love StumbleUpon but since they ignore their evangelists, don’t acknowledge suggestions, and sometimes ban quality sites the same way Google treats their users I would love to find a replacement. I would move on and never look back.

My primary email has been down more than it has been up lately which is a likely indication that they are being integrated and have run into technical difficulties. I found riseup.net today and they look good for being my new email provider so far.

Those who think the way I do know the world would be a better place if we supported small local and online businesses. That is easy to do: simply spend your time and money with them instead of publicly-held Corporations who focus almost exclusively on profits.

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