January 19, 2011
Some good insight provided by Hugh Pickens on Slashdot of how Facebook ships code. It gives us a bit of a window into how Facebook's hacker culture works.1. All engineers learn the system at boot camp- 4/6 weeks of fixing bugs2. Engineers get access to the live database3. New feature ideas can be...
November 23, 2007
People want to know a brand is authentic and that it performs like it says it does. In a transparent world where people have information at their finger tips, brands are having to prove themsleves to people in the most authentic ways possible. Oakley has always been a hard-core, rugged brands with...
June 28, 2007
"We
built the store inside a warehouse. We claimed it was a movie set so
that people would deliver all these goods and not think it was us. We
had to borrow products from other retailers because we hadn't at that
stage developed any products. We took ordinary people in, and they
really, really...
Influx Insights is the blog of BSSP's Influx Strategic Consulting Division. Up and running since 2004, the blog covers branding and the related areas of trends and technology.
