The motivation to protect what’s unique to a specific community, a region, or a particular street has come as a reaction to the mass influx of chain stores in the last 30 years.

Do you think the same guy who’s selling you a a Chrysler Le Baron or Jeep Wrangler can sell you a Fiat 500? Not on your life. Fiat is doing it right by launching 200 new dealerships in the U.S.

What Palm did wrong - just about everything, but most of all was to launch a campaign with a creepy Alice in Wonderland type ad Go with the Flow

Although Toyota has taken a media beating in the last few weeks because of two recalls on popular models, In my opinion they will not fall permanently from grace.

I don’t think all multiple store chains are killers of authenticity. Fundamentally, what do they provide that’s not being served to the consumer? And is it real in how it connects to consumers’ experience?

Target’s entry with P-Fresh will add substantially to the already glutted grocery store square-footage in the United States where more and more retailers are competing for the same number of consumer dollars.

The actual design of the new labels along with the methodology to change the names is a disjointed and confusing with sports illustrations that look like a collage gone bad. There are so many activities I can’t figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. The visual images are more evocative of an energy drink than a beer.

Yahoo’s parent affiliation with Flickr prompted many loyal Flickr users to respond with negative comments about this “brought to you by” connection.

Netbooks –they are basic with no frills make buying a computer a simple decision. So why can’t Apple jump into this market? It makes sense that they create something that appeals to their loyalists, like me, in this category, right? Yes, but it’s definitely not going to be a netbook.

With Palm announcing the new Pre, Apple announcing a new lower price iPhone 3G S, Google’s latest Android phone launch, the MyTouch 3G and the Blackberry Storm, where’s the Smart phone world going?