Archive for September, 2007
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Much has been written about the purported potential investment of Microsoft in Facebook mostly focused on whether a $10 billion valuation is justified or not. That's not the focus for this post. My point is to focus in on why Microsoft so desparately needs Facebook and it's ...
Posted in misc | No Comments »
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
So as cool as I think the jukebox in the sky was back in the day, as cool as the iphone or ipod touch seem to be, what I think's even cooler is the jukebox in your pocket.
I am enjoying all the hysteria and hype in the cult of mac ...
Posted in apple, iphone, ipod, jukebox in the pocket, jukebox in the sky, loudeye, mp3 player | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
As a followup to my post on how the line between editorial and marketing is bluring (if as I argued it ever existed), I wanted to share this anecdote.
Back in the day (mid-90's) I worked at the Disney Channel in marketing (no I wasn't on the brand or creative side ...
Posted in advertising, basic cable, disney channel | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Good article over at Search Engine Land from my new found buddy search and developer relations guru Vanessa Fox on People Search. Vanessa interviews the players in the space including the CEO's of Spock and Wink. Very exhuastive review of the article.
Vanessa quotes me (and notes my former role at ...
Posted in facebook, people search, spock, vanessa fox | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Reading Stefanie Olsen's summary of this evening's sessions from the Conversational Marketing Summit (another great example of why living in Seattle can be a PITA when the center of the web 2.0 is 700 miles away and staying here can mean missing out on interesting events) reminded me of how ...
Posted in adsense, commercialism, disney, google, nike, seth godin, web 2.0 | No Comments »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
The iPhone's (aka JesusPhone) price cut is the price cut heard round the world. But why are folks up in arms? Because suddenly the cult of cool might not be nearly so exclusive anymore.
It's not about $200 - it's all about having your uncool, cheapstake friends now saying - heh ...
Posted in bmw, early adopters, iphone, jesusphone, porsche | No Comments »
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
blist, founded by Kevin Merritt, is starting to come out of its shell. Kevin launched his blist blog today as well as now offering some tantalizing clues as to what blist is going to be about on the company's website. To quote:
If you can make a list, you ...
Posted in blist, kevin merritt | No Comments »
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
There has been a lot of news of folks claiming to have come up with the idea of Facebook before the Facebook folks did. And all I could think of was Jon Lovitz's Pathological Liar character from SNL. First there was the lawsuit from the ConnectU guys, ...
Posted in Fon, YouTube, facebook, simplytv, startups | 2 Comments »
