Announcing Dogpatch Labs Palo Alto & Europe
September 29, 2011 – 8:27 am | 349 Comments

In early September, we got the unfortunate news that the San Francisco Port Authority was closing Pier 38 (home to Dogpatch Labs San Francisco).

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Comcast Uses Xfinity.TV and iPhone, iPad App to Move Online, Counter Netflix & Hulu
November 30, 2010 – 8:33 am | 271 Comments
Comcast Uses Xfinity.TV and iPhone, iPad App to Move Online, Counter Netflix & Hulu

It is popular to hate Comcast: mostly because so many of us spend lots of money with them … and have few choices otherwise. Between cable, internet and phone, the monthly Comcast bill can be …

Facebook Testing New Ad Format With Groupon?
November 28, 2010 – 9:05 am | 881 Comments
Facebook Testing New Ad Format With Groupon?

As Facebook ramps its own Deal platform, it appears as though they might be testing a new ad unit / format with the web’s leading deal provider: Groupon.

Dogpatch Labs: A Deeper Look & Founders’ Perspective
November 27, 2010 – 11:04 am | 677 Comments

Earlier this week, Business Insider ran an article about Dogpatch Labs (read here) that was neither well researched nor accurate.

Favorite TV Commercials Of the Moment (Including a Dogpatch Labs Star!)
November 23, 2010 – 9:22 am | 712 Comments

Since having our first child just a month ago, we have had the television on more than normal (particularly the first couple weeks!). Between baby bouncing / feeding and laptop / email … the TV …

Google Advertising Chrome Heavily on Facebook
November 22, 2010 – 9:42 am | 9 Comments
Google Advertising Chrome Heavily on Facebook

Chrome is a clear focus for Google.
It is growing quickly and taking market share from other web browsers… and it represents a core component of other Google priorities: Google TV, mobile, web speed, apps, etc.

Things I Would Love to See in iOS5: Better Notifications
November 21, 2010 – 8:34 am | 688 Comments

Aditya Mukherjee‘s post “Things I would love to see in iOS5″ has risen to the top of Hacker News.

H&M Offers 20% Off Entire Purchase for Facebook Deals Check-In
November 19, 2010 – 7:30 am | 769 Comments
H&M Offers 20% Off Entire Purchase for Facebook Deals Check-In

Within a day of Facebook announcing their new Deals platform, Starbucks started advertising for their check-in rewards.
Retailer H&M is now doing the same: rewarding checked-in users with 20% their purchase. H&M has been an …

AOL Takes Over NYTimes.com
November 19, 2010 – 6:59 am | 288 Comments
AOL Takes Over NYTimes.com

Over the weekend, I visited NYTimes.com and was surprised to see AOL’s “On AOL.com Now” campaign taking over the *entire* screen of my laptop. This screenshot is trimmed down to fit the blog, but it …

Freemium Takes Over iPhone App Store
November 16, 2010 – 1:17 pm | 242 Comments
Freemium Takes Over iPhone App Store

I regularly cover trends in top grossing iPhone / iPad applications. What makes this update noteworthy is that:

Facebook Messaging & The Social Inbox
November 15, 2010 – 12:35 pm | 297 Comments
Facebook Messaging & The Social Inbox

Today Facebook announced Facebook Messages, which bundles together email, chat and text messages to create a single communication stream: “The New Messages: Texts, chat and email together in one simple conversation.” If you haven’t watched, …

Two More Examples of “In the River” Promotions: Google & Yelp
November 14, 2010 – 7:09 am | 621 Comments
Two More Examples of “In the River” Promotions: Google & Yelp

Have you gotten sick of my writing about getting your marketing and product promotions “in the river”?
“In the river” is my terminology for making sure that messages are delivered inside the core experience and …

ESPN’s iPad Experience: Choose Your Own Adventure
November 12, 2010 – 8:10 am | 196 Comments
ESPN’s iPad Experience: Choose Your Own Adventure

I write a lot about the importance of getting product, messaging and promotion “in the river“ (in other words: making sure that messages are delivered inside the core experience and to the respective audience – …