Air travel has become a painful and costly experience. Social Flights is a technological platform that enables people to self aggregate “crowds&# of people to collectively buy up seats on a variety of private jets.  Most of these flights are connecting through other airport hubs causing lengthy flights, delays do to security and increase cost to consumers. The true cost of air travel includes lost productivity, increased cost and abysmal experiences for business travelers. In addition the entire experience from start to end is anti-social. MORE >>

But it is also a story of hope, for even in the places where digital saturation is greatest,there are people -- especially the young -- who are asking the hard questions about costs, about checks and balances, about returning to what is most sustaining about direct human connection." " Being a human aggregator is the key to growing an existing business or starting a new one. aggregator. There is a lot of great business book reading happening right now. It is a story of emotional dislocation, of risks taken unknowingly. In fact. " The feeling is mutual. media. MORE >>

The idea is again gaining popularity in the era of social media where scalability can be introduced as aggregation cost diminish on applications such as Facebook and Twitter. My first reaction is to find the most unsavory business transactions today and eliminate all the unnecessary middle men and their costs, gateways, noise pollution, and inefficiencies. Suppose the group buying experience could aggregate packages of products. Strategic products would then be aggregated as  ”A Network of Products” that together increase net value. Product Networks? MORE >>

Curiously the data doesnt include aggregate figures from Mint users - which conceivably they can compile by looking at payments to newspaper delivery companies and the like. Newspapers are looking at new models, with increased focus on Web content and using their distribution systems for delivering more than the printed version (and at lower costs than the postal service). The Steve Rubel Stream Edit Delete Autopost 24 Sep 2009 Charticle: The Death of the Print Newspaper The Mint blog has compiled in one place a wealth of data about the decline of the print newspaper. MORE >>

Content aggregation ?). Slide 21: Online costs per lead are lower. Not surprisingly, offline tactics (trade shows in particular) are viewed as costly by B2B marketers on a cost-per-lead basis, while online tactics are seen as more cost-effective. The higher cost per lead may very be justified by higher quality (close rate). Marketing Research Social Media Marketing b2b marketing statistics b2b trade magazines cost per lead Google vs. Facebook HubSpot mobile email QR codes smart phones The Marketing Data BoxEmail is the #2 priority. Email. MORE >>