Archive for the ‘dave mcclure’ Category

Graphing Social Patterns

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Dave McClure wrote a good article today on TechCrunch that is a great primer on why the social graph concept is so important and how you can use it on social networks like Facebook to launch, promote and build an audience for your startup, company or product.  It's as close ...

Are you insane?!?! $2.3 million for a Facebook App! (or the logic behind paying $1.30 per user and why it’s not so insane)

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Yep another Facebook post (hopefully I won't turn into Dave McClure <jk>) but I think the reaction to Trip Advisor's purchase of the Where I've Been FB app for $1.30 per user or $3 million for 2.3 million users justifies some analysis. Not only is the word insane used ...

McClure + Google + Metrics = Advertising OS and Lock-in

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Dave McClure puts down the Facebook crackpipe to grok about Google Analytics and how it represents another layer of Google's online marketing dominance.  And Dave's right - Dave and I talked extensively about this notion back at the Web Analytics Summit in SF back in May (just took Dave 2 ...

OMG - FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!!! Scoble and McClure might go into Convulsions!

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I hope McClure and Scoble aren't going through withdrawal ;-)  Jason Calacanis is probably relieved. UPDATE: It wasn't just me as CNET reported here.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "OMG - FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!!! Scoble and McClure might go into Convulsions!", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/07/30/omg-facebook-is-down-scoble-and-mcclure-might-go-into-convulsions/" });

valleywag calls it - facebook is the new microsoft

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Valleywag - one of my favorite daily tech reads (please owen start covering the scene here in seattle) - posts what I believe a lot of folks are wondering - is facebook the new microsoft?  Facebook is following the Microsoft development platform playbook (as discussed here previously) with their F8 ...

facebook apps - here, there and everywhere

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Facebook is quite the buzz these days in startup land especially since they opened up their app platform (something that those of us in online marketing have been begging for years for fwiw - hint, hint, wink, wink FIM).  For those building consumer web services you know absolutely need to ...

McClure on SMO (Social Media Optimization)

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Dave McClure, man of 1,000 startup connections (seriously if you're a startup in the valley and haven't met dave I am not sure you exist :) ), writes a good "come-to-jesus" post about the importance of social media in online marketing.   As I have commented before here - the social media ...

web 2.0 expo thoughts and feedback

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

First I tend to agree with this blog post that for the most part I was underwhelmed with web 2.0 expo.  After the raging zeitgeist, that was the web 2.0 summit from last fall - it was probably too much to expect the show to live up to the hype in ...

Too Early = Wrong

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Thanks to Dave McClure, I had a chance to sit down the other day with Scott Rafer, CEO of myBlogLog.  In the course of our conversation (largely reliving the ups and downs of the online business sector from 98 to present), Scott made the good point that when it comes ...