Scanning Digg I saw this Old Spice social advert, the Old Spice guy (who I had never seen before seeing an ad at PREDATORS the other night) is in a video saying hello to Kevin Rose, the CEO of Digg. It’s pretty funny. Check it out:
Can you imagine my your brain and my [...]
It’s easy today to focus on the millions of millions of blogs and the unending Twitter streams and email newsletters and industry insiders and…and…
I don’t want people to stop reading those things, because they offer a lot of entertainment, insight and news. But I REALLY don’t want people to stop reading classical literature and expanding their [...]
Twitter is rolling out a monetization effort for their service, Promoted Tweets. A lot of consumers will not like this, a lot of them will understand that the service and information provided by “free” sites such as Twitter and Facebook has to be paid for at some point. This is similar to how basic programming [...]
A quick discussion of the Oatmeal and how his work has “gone viral” and why it’s difficult to emulate.
Via Doc Searls, a great piece answering ten very good questions about how the tubes will evolve.
Seriously, read it. It’s an impressive account.
Twitter just added geolocation to it’s growing list of services to tweets. That’s a really big deal as 4square has been making so many waves in the last few months. I tested it and it works really, really well.
We’re seeing a lot of overlap from the big guys in social networking (or whatever you want [...]
It’s not too far away. Technically it’s already here, but soon the integration of televisions with computers will be a built in feature.
I’ve been toying with getting a Mac Mini for my 42″ LCD TV at home for a while now. Today, I simply plug in my parallel port on my laptop to the television [...]
I’ve only had League Pass Broadband for a week or so and it’s obvious I won’t buy it again. The reasons are many:
1. Blackouts. Even if you pay for 7 teams (my option) or all teams, they have to meet sellout requirements in order to be watched. That means my Timberwolves are going to be [...]
A sound bite is a small clip from a more thorough story.
Sound bites are loved by the common man and by reporters. They stick with you. This is what I remember from the state of the union:
Sound bites offer a double edged sword to us as a populace. For one thing, they are memorable, lowest [...]
A Brand Called You got this all started. The internet blew it up. There are thousands upon thousands of people today who are seeking to build a brand through a website and monetize it based on their thinking or selling something of their own. I personally feel it’s an amazing aspiration and hope genuinely for [...]