Emrecan D.

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Netflix, Gamefly, USPS and behavioral economics

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 8:22 pm
FeedFlix, a Netflix API service, says that Netflix is losing 0.3% of DVDs it is shipping. GameFly, which gives the same Netflix-style service for video games, is unhappy about ~1.0% loss rates for t...
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Google Reader's magic

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 2:35 am
Google Reader started offering a new sorting method for blog posts: Sort by magic. While many tech evangelists have already declared RSS-reading dead and migrated to Twitter-style micro-sharing, I&nb...
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Future of Filmed Entertainment – who should thrive and why? (Part 1 of 3)

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 12:10 am
Future of filmed entertainment will not be that different from what it is today – in terms of complexity and number of players participating. But, as the pie is large, there are lots of hopeful ...
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Pay-to-bid auctions (e.g. Swoopo): societal impact

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2009, 10:02 pm
For the last 72 hours, I have spent a good amount of time on discovering the inner workings of pay-to-bid auctions, and Swoopo in particular. I must be one of the early inquirers into the subject, as ...
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Turkish Online News – more perspective

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2009, 1:17 am
This is a follow-up to Cem Sertoglu’s post on Turkish Online News, dated July 28th, 2009. Some resources say there are 26 million internet users in Turkey, making it 14th largest internet popul...
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Soccer leagues and twitter

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Aug 22, 2009, 10:22 pm
Nobody knows for sure how and why the first soccer league was founded. But one theory, further supported by Spaniards’ big success in the realm, suggests that a Spanish king liked the idea as he...
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What does Google Suggest results tell

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Aug 22, 2009, 9:23 pm
A few days ago, I switched to Sophos Antivirus, as Stanford is providing to its students for free, from BitDefender. Then, I found this YouTube clip from Sophos. When you type "remove" in Google.co.uk...
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Netflix for Sony: A corporate strategy resolution

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Jul 9, 2009, 9:50 pm
Media is one of the most twisted industries globally. Facts first. Sony is a large, if not the largest, content producer/owner in the world. From this perspective, Sony sits at the upstream of Netfl...
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Facebook and older people: crossing the chasm

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Jul 7, 2009, 9:53 am
Mashable had a very insightful post today about the shift in demographics of Facebook userbase. In my opinion, the facts presented in the post are highly valuable, but the analysis and synthesis coul...
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Gdgt: So what?

Emrecan D. posted an article on - Jul 1, 2009, 5:11 pm
I waited for almost 10 minutes before writing this short post but I couldn’t find any arguments counter to my flash gut feel that said "So what?" after watching gdgt.com intro video featuring Ve...
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