Introducing: Mastering Facebook in Kindle and Paperback
February 21, 2012 – 8:53 am | Comments Off

I’m excited to announce that I’ve turned the last 2+ years of Facebook blog posts into a book focused on Facebook: exciting campaigns, product development, virality, and platform developments. There are 200+ screenshots in the …

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Introducing: Mastering Facebook in Kindle and Paperback
February 21, 2012 – 8:53 am | Comments Off
Introducing: Mastering Facebook in Kindle and Paperback

I’m excited to announce that I’ve turned the last 2+ years of Facebook blog posts into a book focused on Facebook: exciting campaigns, product development, virality, and platform developments. There are 200+ screenshots in the …

11 Ways to Usher the NFL, NBA, MLB into the New Web
October 6, 2011 – 6:30 am | 58 Comments
11 Ways to Usher the NFL, NBA, MLB into the New Web

I am a sports nut. That shouldn’t be news if you follow me here or on Twitter / Facebook. I also spend my professional life on the web and looking at new technologies. In part …

8 Quick Thoughts on Facebook’s Big Week.
September 25, 2011 – 7:37 am | 62 Comments
8 Quick Thoughts on Facebook’s Big Week.

A handful of quick, disorganized thoughts on Facebook’s announcements / releases this week:
Immersive
The activity ticker is immersive and really amplifies ‘viral’ potential. I have ‘liked’ (and listened and read and soon to be much watched, …

Robert Scoble & Building43 Visit Dogpatch Labs
September 21, 2010 – 6:45 am | 786 Comments
Robert Scoble & Building43 Visit Dogpatch Labs

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Robert Scoble of Building43.com and taking about Dogpatch Labs, entrepreneurship and Polaris Venture Partners.

Dogpatch Labs & Polaris Ventures (from Quora)
September 8, 2010 – 6:45 am | 264 Comments
Dogpatch Labs & Polaris Ventures (from Quora)

I have been spending time on Quora answering questions around Dogpatch Labs, incubators, venture capital, etc. As I receive some questions frequently, I thought it would be worth while to re-purpose my answer for a …

Why Work At Dogpatch Labs? (from Quora)
September 4, 2010 – 12:31 pm | 258 Comments
Why Work At Dogpatch Labs? (from Quora)

I have been spending time on Quora answering questions around Dogpatch Labs, incubators, venture capital, etc. As I receive some questions frequently, I thought it would be worth while to re-purpose my answer for a …

9 Guiding Design Principles
August 18, 2010 – 8:12 am | 588 Comments
9 Guiding Design Principles

Thanks to the iPad, I have been on a documentary kick: both Netflix and iTunes make it easy to access interesting content that I otherwise wouldn’t think to watch. Combined with the iPad’s portability, consuming …

Optimizing Call to Action Buttons
August 10, 2010 – 5:22 am | 439 Comments
Optimizing Call to Action Buttons

Smashing Magazine has a terrific guide to designing “call to action buttons.” Design and optimization can increase conversions dramatically – just ask (and study!) these conversion-focused leaders:
- Social gaming: RockYou, Slide, Zynga, etc
- Flash Sales: …

Facebook Vanity URLs = Big SEO Boost for Facebook
May 31, 2009 – 9:28 am | 319 Comments
Facebook Vanity URLs = Big SEO Boost for Facebook

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 …