I like to check in on Apple’s top grossing applications – it’s a good indication of mobile app and publisher trends. And from time to time, I have written about those trends.

Groupon, Rue La La, Gilt Group, etc have built big businesses atop big email lists and great email marketing.
Twitter has beefed up their email efforts by delivering notifications for retweets, mentions and favorites by your …

I am both excited and proud to announce that beRecruited (the sports recruiting network I founded way back in 2000) has acquired Fanvibe (a former Dogpatch Labs and YCombinator company).

The more I play with Apple’s iOS5, the more impressed I am with the Twitter integration.
And the more aware I am of the potential impact it has on Twitter…
But why isn’t Facebook integrated instead or …

I like the highlight examples of effective “in the river” marketing – the concept of placing product, promotion and marketing messages in relevant, active parts of the web experience. Lots of examples here…

As Google continues to focus on HTML5 mobile experiences (and do it very well), they have to think about systematically driving usage… which, for mobile, requires ‘desktop’ real estate.

I am pretty sure that I’m the lone Google TV fanboy. I love the ability to merge the television with Google Chrome … and to eventually lay the Android marketplace atop it (currently there are …

Have you looked at Amazon’s core navigation pane recently… you know, where Amazon users start browsing through the online mega-store?

I love Netflix.
– They have revolutionized the way we think about movies and media
– They have created a slew of new company ideas and models: “the Netflix for XYZ”
– They have …

Having played with Apple’s iOS5 for a couple days, here are two big thoughts and a few brief ones after that:

I have written a fair amount about Facebook Deals and why it is interesting & worth keeping an eye on…. and it’s timely as Groupon nears its IPO and Google & Amazon begin to enter …

Amazon is the king of simple, effective marketing units. Here are two more that promote Amazon Prime. (Never mind the fact that I already subscribe to Prime and am not sure why I am seeing …