Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Commitment and the “Tower of Doom”
Back in 1987 North Korea constructed a Soviet-era looking, pyramid-shaped, high-riser hotel. It was built to compete with South Korea as it prepared to host the Olympics. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the funding for the hotel disappeared (to the relief of architects around the world), and it’s been sitting in the middle of Pyongyang […]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Authors@Mashable
We’re thrilled that the folks at mashable.com have selected Sway to be the first title in their new book club. In web 2.0 fashion, all discussions and comments will take place over email and chat. It’ll be interesting to see how these will differ from the regular questions and comments we get when we present in […]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The Fake Restaurant
Would you pay $14 for a fast-food burger? Would you consider it a good value? Reader Matthew Weathers blogged about an ad campaign that reminded him of Sway. Carl’s Junior set up a makeshift fancy restaurant and served $6 burgers for $14, nearly two-and-a-half-times their usual cost. The customers happily shelled out that much money and seemed […]
