Joining Polaris Ventures Partners
August 2, 2009 – 5:28 pm | Comments

I am excited to announce that, starting Monday, I will be joining Polaris Venture Partners and will work out of the Dog Patch Lab on Pier 38. Over the last few years, I have had …

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Happy New Years from JibJab: Never a Year Like ‘09
December 31, 2009 – 8:40 am | Comments
Happy New Years from JibJab: Never a Year Like ‘09

Another great job by JibJab with their end-of-year celebration video: Never a Year Like ‘09.

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Facebook Increasing Awareness of ‘Notes’ in News Feed?
December 29, 2009 – 2:10 pm | Comments
Facebook Increasing Awareness of ‘Notes’ in News Feed?

This is my last short Facebook post of the day… and it is also speculative as it is based on the fact that this is the first time I have seen behavior like this on …

Facebook Promoting Public URLs and Sharing?
December 29, 2009 – 2:10 pm | Comments

Facebook continues their push towards public content – both for personal and brand / page accounts – and, as we all know, it is a tight, challenging line to walk between private and public content… …

Living Proof Uses Facebook to Distribute 15,000 No Frizz Samples
December 29, 2009 – 1:52 pm | Comments
Living Proof Uses Facebook to Distribute 15,000 No Frizz Samples

This will be the first of a few short Facebook related posts – my apologies!
InsideFacebook has a nice write up the recent Living Proof sampling campaign they ran on Facebook.
Using Facebook’s sampling ad unit …

Facebook: #1 Visited US Site on Christmas & Christmas Eve
December 29, 2009 – 10:44 am | Comments
Facebook: #1 Visited US Site on Christmas & Christmas Eve

According to Hitwise (ironically via their Twitter feed), Facebook was the #1 visited site in US on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This is the first time Facebook has been the most visited page.

ESPN’s Mobile Application Strategy (and Ad Campaign to Match)
December 29, 2009 – 8:37 am | Comments
ESPN’s Mobile Application Strategy (and Ad Campaign to Match)

ESPN’s Scorecenter iPhone App is the top sports application in iTunes, alongside several other successful ESPN apps: ESPN Radio ($2.99), ESPN Fantasy Football ($2.99), ESPN Zoom ($2.99), ESPN Streak for the Cash, ESPN 2010 World …

Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers
December 24, 2009 – 9:23 am | Comments
Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers

Mike Hirshland today has a blog post, “Friends or Followers“, which describes the frequent conversation / debate around Facebook and Twitter:
In the course of our meeting [at Facebook] the Twitter question came up, and we …

Those “In-time for Christmas” Shipping Emails Keep Coming
December 21, 2009 – 5:21 pm | Comments
Those “In-time for Christmas” Shipping Emails Keep Coming

As I posted earlier today, this is the last chance to order gifts online and have them delivered before Christmas… which means that e-commerce sites everywhere are sending emails to make sure you know the …

Amazon Wants to Remind You: There is Still Time to Get it by December 24
December 21, 2009 – 8:22 am | Comments
Amazon Wants to Remind You: There is Still Time to Get it by December 24

As Christmas approaches, your inbox has probably filled with reminders from brands and websites that the shipping deadline is looming. For e-commerce sites, Thanksgiving through Christmas is a seasonal highlight for the business… but it …

Android Now 27% of Smartphone Requests (Doubled since August); Droid Now 15% of Android Devices
December 18, 2009 – 9:44 am | Comments
Android Now 27% of Smartphone Requests (Doubled since August); Droid Now 15% of Android Devices

Interesting and impressive data around Android and the Motorola Droid from two sources today: AdMob’s November “Mobile Metrics” report and Betanews.
- According to Betanews, 15% of all Android handsets are now Motorola Droids
- And, according …

Electronic Arts has Seven of iPhone’s Top 25 Grossing iPhone Apps
December 18, 2009 – 8:55 am | Comments
Electronic Arts has Seven of iPhone’s Top 25 Grossing iPhone Apps

It’s no surprise that big brands represent a significant share of the iPhone’s top grossing iPhone applications. Here is another proof point: Electronc Arts itself represents seven of the iPhone’s twenty-five top grossing applications… each …

eBay’s “Come to Think of It” Campaign Arrives on Gizmodo
December 16, 2009 – 4:21 pm | Comments
eBay’s “Come to Think of It” Campaign Arrives on Gizmodo

eBay’s “Come to Think of It” advertising campaign is all over television… and is now making its way across the internet as well. The below screenshots are of a matching campaign on Gizmodo. The ad …