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About markkolier

Futurist, entrepreneur, left lane driver, baseball lover

Snowovereaction

Posted on January 7, 2011 by markkolier

This morning I left JFK airport in New York (it is kind of cool to post from 33,000 fee somewhere over South Dakota) amidst the first flakes of an impending snowstorm. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has taken a … Continue reading →

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The CES – Consumer Electronics Show – I am not going – are you?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by markkolier

Every year in January the CES takes place in Las Vegas. This year there is buzz about tablet PCs (more than 50 will be on display), television apps, 3D TV apps and accessories, computer printers (HP apparently has a really … Continue reading →

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Technology fifty years ago and fifty years from now

Posted on January 3, 2011 by markkolier

100 years is a still more than a lifetime and a reasonable barometer to look at how things change. Now that we are in 2011 I thought it would be interesting to look back 50 years to get a sense … Continue reading →

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Why I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions

Posted on December 31, 2010 by markkolier

Reading and hearing about people’s New Year’s resolutions always amuses me. But I also wonder why people go public with a ‘resolution’ for the New Year? How many times have you failed to deliver on your own resolutions? Think of … Continue reading →

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The day my Office Internet World Stood Still

Posted on December 29, 2010 by markkolier

I’m writing this on a mid-Monday afternoon just after the end of the Christmas Day Blizzard here in the Connecticut. We’ve had more than 18 inches of snow and the winds have been fierce for more than 24 hours. Consequently … Continue reading →

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Consumers say ‘Dont track on me’

Posted on December 27, 2010 by markkolier

I saw an article last week in the DM News http://bit.ly/euzIOK noting that two-thirds of “consumers oppose online behavioral tracking and targeted advertising based on it, according to a Gallup/USAToday poll conducted earlier this month. Consumers were surveyed about the … Continue reading →

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Shopping at the Mall for the Holidays – all the more reason to shop online

Posted on December 23, 2010 by markkolier

I will readily admit that I am not much of a shopper. If anything I am a buyer which means when I go into a retail establishment my mission is to go directly to what I came for, go directly … Continue reading →

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Blackberry retail stores – BORING?

Posted on December 22, 2010 by markkolier

An article on ‘How Amazon Works Around iTunes’ in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal http://on.wsj.com/dJ9SWW made me think about how Apple has done such a great job with their retail stores and how Blackberry hasn’t. If you are wondering (as … Continue reading →

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Lindsey Vonn gets more than her 15 minutes

Posted on December 20, 2010 by markkolier

I’ve been posting regularly on my blog for over two years now and by far the most visited (and I hope read) post is the one I did earlier this year on American skier Lindsey Vonn. In that post from … Continue reading →

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Denny’s does some interesting marketing things but are they effective?

Posted on December 17, 2010 by markkolier

The past two years Denny’s restaurants have offered an interesting promotion the Tuesday after the Super Bowl – a Free ‘Grand Slam’ breakfast. It created a great deal of buzz in 2009 and again this year and reportedly cost less … Continue reading →

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