It is time to start thinking of mobile devices as netbooks or, for that matter, laptops. Data from AdMob suggests that users of the iPhone and iPod Touch are highly captive consumers of content and …

Want to know the value of being a “Suggested User” on Twitter? Jason Calacanis offered $250,000 to lock in that slot for two years. Twitter rejected the overture.
But TechCrunch has one of those coveted …

Before Facebook’s vanity URL land grab, I speculated that it would be a major SEO boost and could result in an additional 275m monthly visits. Just three days after Facebook’s URL release (9:01pm pst on …

On a day when data was released surrounding the Palm Pre’s launch and Apple announced the iPhone 3GS, the clear loser was the Palm Pre and its carrier.
Palm: -6.5%
Sprint: -2.9%
Apple: -0.6% (rebounded from -3% after …

Techmeme has become one my primary navigational sources for daily reading / news (others include email, Google RSS, Facebook, NYTimes, TechCrunch, etc). Twitter isn’t yet there because it is simply too noisy to be efficient. …

Twitter is a powerful marketing lever for communications, traffic acquisition and user interaction (read more here). But to leverage Twitter, the fact is that you need to build a following… a task that is particularly …

Unfortunately, as much as I wanted to befriend this anonymous user – Facebook won’t let me… It’s also unfortunate because I wanted to give him / her this Prius ‘Air’ Freshner:

Facebook friend ‘suggestions’ seem to …

Facebook Pages are powerful ways to communicate with users, customers and fans… but the power is predicated by the size of its audience (a lesson well demonstrated by Twitter). Thus, it’s a natural move for …

I have written before that data around referral traffic could be a business model for both Twitter and Friendfeed. And as Twitter’s growth accelerates, I believe this more than when I wrote the article one …

I consider myself evironmentally aware (my fiance Anette works at SunRun and I commute in a 100mpg Honda Ruckus)… but I am certainly not an ‘environmentalist’ (I also drive an eight-seater SUV). Yet it’s the …

Facebook’s vanity URL push (covered by TechCrunch) is a big deal for two reasons:
- the direct business model opportunity
- traffic via natural search
Let’s leave the business model alone for the now as it is …

There is a worm actively going around Twitter encouraging users to view the “best video” – which is cloaked in a short url (juste.ru/…). Twitter actively and quickly responded with a short, strange message:
“No matter …