Here’s the Google+ right column. It’s getting awfully crowded / busy and its one large promotion for Google+ functions / features:

Yesterday Living Social ran a promotion with McDonald’s: $13 for 5 Big Macs and 5 large fries.
With 15 hours to go, they have already sold ~260,000 deals… which equates to 1.2 million Big Macs.
~35,000 people …

I logged into Starbucks’ wifi this morning and was presented with the below screen. I find it fascinating that Starbucks has an ad for “full behind-the-paywall access. Free.” This strikes me as very much an …

This week we learned of Facebook’s internal project (code-named Buffy) to build a Facebook Phone. Much of the tech press laughed: it’s too late! It’s too crowded! Facebook isn’t a hardware company! And so on.

Can you tell that there is a sale?
Can you tell it’s Black Friday?
Even though this is a screenshot from Sunday evening?

Sports fans today got a Black Friday present: the 149 day NBA lockout is on the verge on ending.
And the result is a good thing for fans: the season will be 66 games (a better …

I Found the article, Groupon horror: Bakery must make 102,000 cupcakes, via Washington Post Social Reader app (written about here).

The bakery, based in Woodley, received 8,500 requests for a dozen cupcakes, far above the normally …

ESPN is getting closer! I have written a lot about ESPN’s usage – and potential usage – of Twitter. I have criticized and applauded. Here is an example of ESPN continuing to improve.

mer·chan·dis·ing/ˈmərCHənˌdīziNG/
Noun: The activity of promoting the sale of goods.

I love Evernote. It’s one of the few products I use daily and on every device I own. I also love their homepage because it is super simple and focuses on two single actions: learn …

I give Twitter a lot of credit for rolling out their new Activity Stream.
Sure, it’s quite ugly… that can be fixed.
And sure, it’s a glorified newsfeed / timeline… but it’s core to Twitter.

If you read me regularly, you know that I have a major pet peeve around unoptimized (and often dysfunctional) mobile experiences. So often mobile is treated an extension of the web experience and that results …