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Jan 26, 2007
Anthony Volodkin of Hypemachine, on the Podblop Blog: iPod or Zune? iPod, but I don't even listen to my iPod anymore. I soak in the surroundings. When I take the train, I look at people. It's interesting. I think it's the next [...]
Jan 23, 2007
"What we’re about to tell you is so shocking . . .. . . we ask that you please be seated before reading on. There once was a time when “home entertainment system” meant “jigsaw puzzle” and "interactive experience” meant “wedgie.” Honest [...]
Jan 17, 2007
Attending Mashup Camp this week, really stimulating bunch of people and conversations. Much to digest, but two things stand out: -- Jon Aizen and Eran Shir of Dapper, smart guys with a wild technology to extract content, or create an API in [...]
Jan 15, 2007
[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og: So far we've predominantly been discovering better ways of representing standard course materials on webpages. This corresponds to the first phase of a new form of media: that of a new way to do old things. "Cell phones [...]
Jan 12, 2007
Sramana Mitra: I would submit, that Yahoo hardly needs to do anything drastic, except, that it needs to reorganize its entire portfolio into Segments and Lifestyles, and align the 4Cs of each segment, so that the people interested in advertising to [...]
Jan 12, 2007
Dave Morgan (via Andy Monfried): We have unique consumer insights and can tell advertisers and their agencies valuable things about their audiences and their campaigns and their products and services--things that they didn't know, and need to know. This can help [...]
Jan 10, 2007
Andy Monfried writes that that best businesses are those that solve a customer's pain. Without that pain, it's hard to build a solid and long-lasting business that makes money. Sometimes things that are really cool, technically innovative indeed, do not [...]
Jan 2, 2007
"Someone will successfully fuse social networking and online advertising. If I am interested in some topic, like programming in Ruby, or Vespa scooters (along with thousands of like-minded others), then sponsoring an online watering hole for aficionados should make sense. [...]
Jan 2, 2007
"The good news for mobile marketing is that advertisers can target by location, demographic and create actionable responses. The bad news? More than three-quarters of Americans are annoyed just thinking about it."-Ad Age, Jan 2, 2007. There will be much detritus [...]