August 2012 - Netklik

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I read the following article:

Forget Apple, Forget Facebook: Here’s The One Company That Actually Terrifies Google Execs By Nicholas Carlson from Business Insider.

Many of us use Google for our web searches, Google makes most of it’s income when we do web searches just before we are ready to buy something online.

On the other hand, the other author explains that there seems to be a trend for people to directly to websites like Amazon.com to to make searches directly instead of taking the extra step of doing the searches in Google.

This becomes even more true when you consider people using mobile devices and tables when doing online purchases.

I know this is something that happens to me, and I have find myself many times searching and researching in Amazon before making a product online. Has this happened to you to? Where do you search before making an online purchase?

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I read the following interesting article that appear in Time Magazine on August 6, 2012:

Please send tweets by Bonnie Rochman

The article explains how camps find new ways to placate obsessive kids – and parents. There is a new service that many camps offer that allows parents to communicate with kids via Parent’s Portal through the service of bunk1.com.

It also allows the camp to post pictures daily for the parents to view their campers.

The communication that bunk1.com offers goes far beyond sending email messages it also allows campers to receive a certain number of tweets per day.

I think this is really interesting, can you remember back when were a kids? How lucky we were to be able to disconnect so easy from technology.

I know every camp has their own guidelines about what type of communication and electronic device they allow, such as no cell phones, no devices with internet access, etc.

One one hand I know that we need to help our children slow down and disconnect from the internet and all electronic devices, but on the other hand that also means we need to also disconnect ourselves, and it’s very hard. My son is in camp and I made a point of writing him letters the first week he was away. For the second week I decided to subscribe to the bunk1.com service, because let’s be honest. It’s a lot easier for me to write a message in the computer than to write a letter.

Are you the type of parent that would rather exchange regular mail with your kids while at camp instead of email? Do you even think it’s possible? What do you think is the ideal balance?

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