Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

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Entries Tagged as 'Pleasure'

The importance of delivery to New Yorkers

April 5th, 2008 · 1 comment so far

I recently discovered Wakozi.com, what TechCrunch called “Kozmo for booze.” For those of you who never knew Kozmo.com, they were a movie-and-snacks delivery service that operated in Manhattan (and later in other cities) in the late-90s. Their angle was that they delivered your order for free in under an hour.
I was one of their first [...]

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Update on Amazon’s TextBuyIt

April 5th, 2008 · 1 comment so far

As you may have read on Wednesday, I bought a book through Amazon’s new service TextBuyIt. I was really impressed by the user flow and was able to buy the book I was looking for in about two minutes.
Even more incredible is that the book showed up at my house yesterday morning, just two [...]

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