There seems to be a bit of a crisis brewing on Facebook and I am frankly stunned by the lack of coverage. There are now several viruses that are taking advantage of the curiosity of Facebook users in such a way that those users are now spamming their friends with diet advice and other nonsense.[…]
From VHS to the Internet, it’s just a fact that porn drives growth of new technologies. One of the ways it does that is by pushing on boundaries so the rest of us know where the lines are. In today’s (Feb 22, 2010) NY Times, Jenna Wortham has a great article: “Apple Bans Some Apps[…]
Starting off the week with a few stories I got to over the weekend. Enjoy The Sweet: Carl Sagan’s Interstellar Love Story – Enjoy NPR’s Valentines Day story featuring Ann Druyan, (Carl Sagan’s Widow) The recording Carl and Ann made for NASA to represent life on earth to alien cultures includes something very personal. The[…]
As a former IBMer who witnessed and participated in IBM’s resurgence in the 90’s, I’m a big fan of companies who are willing to regularly reinvent themselves and “eat their own lunch.” Listening to the market, IBM invented WebSphere, eventually ignoring the screams from the Lotus division that Notes/Domino was a fine web platform that[…]
Moby Dick: 1,520 or so tweets.
A friend writes… “I watched the keynote last night (or 40 minutes of it). It’ll be very interesting to see how well this product does. For the first time I saw Steve Jobs, who I put high on a pedestal, look uncomfortable and lack credibility. He looked fine, health-wise. But he was selling this thing[…]
While I should probably be writing part 3 of my epic series on the App Phone Wars, it doesn’t seem wise to spend much time on that in advance of Apple’s big announce today. And I also need to think about the impact of the new news that the Palm Pre and Pixie will now[…]
I’m going to take a semi-break from my focus on mobile + social marketing to talk about a subject near and dear to my heart: Late Night Comedy. I first watched Letterman the first year he was on TV — in my freshman dorm at Kenyon when my friend Bill Sondheim walked into the second[…]
Three are a number of scenarios that are being discussed these days about the Motorola Droid, Android and the Google NexusOne phone and what they mean for the future of mobile applications. Before I give my opinion on who will win, I want to take a moment to talk about why the mobile app platform[…]
At the risk of hurting my own future revenue stream, in this post I’m going to give you the world’s fastest lesson in creating business success via social media. Two key assumptions in this plan: 1) You want prospective customers to want to know more about your company. 2) Prospective customers will want to learn[…]