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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Apple’s Track Shipment Hot-links.
June 1, 2011 – 9:52 am | 11 Comments
Apple’s Track Shipment Hot-links.

When Apple released iOS4, I wrote that the most overlooked functionality was the automatic calendar / event creator. Despite some flaws, it is a feature I use daily and it’s a natural tie between multiple …

Sports Illustrated, Jim Tressel and Not Taking Advantage of Virality.
May 31, 2011 – 9:13 am | Comments Off
Sports Illustrated, Jim Tressel and Not Taking Advantage of Virality.

I write a lot about “in the river” marketing – which is all about leveraging the power of existing, engaged traffic to deliver relevant, actionable messaging / marketing / promotions. You can see lots of …

Why Don’t Mobile Apps do a Better Job with Push Notifications? CNN, ESPN, Bin Laden & Andre Ethier.
May 18, 2011 – 12:14 pm | 364 Comments

One of the most powerful elements of mobile applications is ability to push notifications. Meanwhile, push notifications are rarely integrated / integrated well… and misuse is quite dangerous because it leads to consumer fatigue and …

The Web as One Big App Store.
May 11, 2011 – 9:47 am | 23 Comments
The Web as One Big App Store.

There is nothing groundbreaking about what I am about to say… but: it is easy to overlook how simple and powerful making purchases with a single-click is.

Facebook Testing Location Awareness
May 5, 2011 – 8:14 am | 600 Comments
Facebook Testing Location Awareness

As Facebook Places, Events, Groups, Photos, Mobile, etc begin to interact with each other, it is clear that a common thread: location and proximity. That’s why I was struck by the following test unit by …

Use Facebook Connect to Eliminate Mobile App Registration, Login
April 29, 2011 – 8:37 am | 186 Comments
Use Facebook Connect to Eliminate Mobile App Registration, Login

I have two mobile application pet peeves:
1. when the first thing I see is a registration flow.
2. and when the registration doesn’t use Facebook’s steamlined flow.

Three Reasons Why Facebook Deals is Important.
April 27, 2011 – 8:03 am | 601 Comments
Three Reasons Why Facebook Deals is Important.

Three visual reason why Facebook Deals shouldn’t be overlooked… despite being a day old and despite the large lead of Groupon and LivingSocial.

Having to Unlearn Twitter to Learn Tweetbot… A Designer’s Dilemma
April 24, 2011 – 12:08 pm | 349 Comments
Having to Unlearn Twitter to Learn Tweetbot… A Designer’s Dilemma

After reading the rave reviews, I traded in Twitter’s iPhone App for Tweetbot. It’s great – glossy, fast and customizable.

Twitter Promotes Mobile Apps & SMS To Logged-Out Users. Smart.
April 21, 2011 – 4:37 pm | 300 Comments

A little over a year ago, I wrote about Facebook’s post-logout promotion of Facebook Mobile – which helped to significantly increase iPhone usage (+20% in a week).

Meanwhile, another giant social / mobile player is …

Twitter Promoted Tweets & Effective Real-Time, Event-Based Advertising
April 19, 2011 – 10:22 am | 597 Comments
Twitter Promoted Tweets & Effective Real-Time, Event-Based Advertising

For much of today, my blog was unaccessible because Media Temple had a far-reaching outage.
After unsuccessfully trying to reach my site, I was made aware of this through Twitter (why no email correspondence?)… with …

Facebook Testing, Promoting Around Proximity
April 13, 2011 – 8:38 am | 270 Comments
Facebook Testing, Promoting Around Proximity

Below are two Facebook promotional units that I have seen more of:
1. Friends in City, State
2. Friends’ Popular Places

Google Mobile Weather Demonstrates HTML5 Power
April 12, 2011 – 5:02 am | 779 Comments
Google Mobile Weather Demonstrates HTML5 Power

Search for “weather 94025″ on your mobile phone. What Google has done is very impressive.
First, the search result is overtaken with a weather forecast (similar to other ‘smart search’ categories like sports scores, news, …