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Cota is creative director of Rare
Bird Inc., a full-service advertising agency specializing in the use of new technologies.
E-mail:
jim@rarebirdinc.com
Recent Articles
COTA: Website helps with difficult but important conversation
May 4, 2013
The Conversation Project sparks discussion of end-of-life issues.
MoreCOTA: Learn-to-play website taps into instinctive desire to learn guitar
March 30, 2013
Instinct aims to make playing music as natural as singing it, because “playing music is one of the most natural things
a human can do.”
MoreCOTA: Online Smartz helpful in keeping kids cyber safe
March 2, 2013
If your privacy settings aren’t carefully controlled, you’re not only potentially exposing yourself, but also your friends.
COTA: Uber-improvement made to high-tech conference calls
February 2, 2013
Service offers call summaries, easy speaker identification and even fun hold music.
MoreCOTA: Scouting the Web for kids' badge-based DIY projects
January 3, 2013
Yes, the virtual world can inspire kids to get their hands dirty with actual physical projects
MoreCOTA: Website lets you opt out of an overstuffed holiday mailbox
December 1, 2012
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MoreCOTA: Evernote aims to be Google for your brain
November 3, 2012
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MoreWEB REVIEW: The clickable, trackable, lovable nature of e-mail marketing
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August 4, 2012
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MoreWEB REVIEW: Goodreads helps readers find their next favorite novel
March 29, 2012
Goodreads compiles the ratings and reviews from users everywhere and has a powerful "recommendation engine."
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March 3, 2012
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Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.