http://www.ericmattes.com/blog The World of Eric Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:07:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en and I'm not talking about Jersey Shore. NYTimes.com has a great article about how the upcoming show "Our Little Genius" may traumatize its contestants, who are young children! This show seems like it could easily traumatize a kid who gets a wrong answer and loses several hundred thousand dollars for his ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=500 I guess I should have written this post months ago. Maybe even years ago... but what the heck should I do with this blog? Facebook has entirely taken over for my blog and anything I would have posted here I post there instead. I suppose I can pick a topic and ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=499 I figured I'd let the blogosphere know: I'm almost three weeks into an internship at Pepsi and loving it. My coworkers - and the summer interns - are great. The work is interesting. I'm learning a lot. There is unlimited free Mountain Dew. What more could a guy want? I ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=498 Interesting NYT article about combining religion and social networking technology. http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=497 I had a crazy trip to Boston this weekend. Both ways, the driver got lost and actually asked the passengers for directions! Luckily, everyone had smartphones and could easily provide assistance. On the way into New Haven, the driver got lost multiple times and would have driven around for who ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=496 How come every time Facebook makes some change, my news feed is full of people complaining? Is this a vocal minority or do most people dislike it when Facebook makes changes? They are about to offer people usernames (optional, I think) and I've already seen a bunch of people posting ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=495 I figured I may as well declare it to the blogosphere: I'm finished with school! I graduate this coming Monday. Starting on June 1st, I'll begin a summer internship at the Yale Case Research Team where I'll be contributing to Web-based business cases. This is a killer internship because I not ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=494 I was thrilled to read that Tropicana will be reverting to its old package design. Last year, Tropicana replaced one of the most effective package designs I've ever seen with a lame, generic, difficult-to-read design that nobody particularly liked. People all over the Internet were complaining about it and I ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=493 I just got a spam mail today with some fake job opportunity and a sketchy link to a Chinese Web site. It made me think how the spam industry can benefit by staying current on people's needs and insecurities. Shame on these people! P.S. If anyone has a real job opportunity ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=492 A lot of folks like to talk to me about their ideas for solving the US financial crisis after I tell them that I'm in business school. Since I'm not much of a "finance guy" I don't really have any of my own brilliant ideas to solve the crisis, but ... http://www.ericmattes.com/blog/?p=491