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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2011: The Year of Chrome & Android (2011 Predictions)
December 15, 2010 – 2:05 pm | 572 Comments
2011: The Year of Chrome & Android (2011 Predictions)

To see more of my 2011 tech predictions – click here
Google Chrome and Android are both fast growing: Chrome now has 120m users and Android continues its march towards mobile OS leadership.

It’s All About the Living Room (2011 Predictions)
December 12, 2010 – 8:21 am | 226 Comments
It’s All About the Living Room (2011 Predictions)

To see more of my 2011 tech predictions – click here
This will be the year where the internet finally makes it’s way into the living room… and I don’t mean as a laptop or iPad …

McDonald’s Buys Facebook Ads to Ask, “Would You Check-In?”
December 7, 2010 – 9:29 am | 672 Comments
McDonald’s Buys Facebook Ads to Ask, “Would You Check-In?”

McDonald’s is currently buying sponsored ads on Facebook to ask whether you “would check-in at a McDonald’s restaurant”. Considering that McDonald’s does not currently provide offers for checking-in via Facebook Places, this appears to be …

Facebook Now Advertising “Facebook Deals” to iPhone Users
December 4, 2010 – 8:26 am | 426 Comments
Facebook Now Advertising “Facebook Deals” to iPhone Users

Last week I wrote about how both Starbucks and H&M are beginning to advertise their Facebook Deals / Facebook Places campaigns.

Comcast Uses Xfinity.TV and iPhone, iPad App to Move Online, Counter Netflix & Hulu
November 30, 2010 – 8:33 am | 271 Comments
Comcast Uses Xfinity.TV and iPhone, iPad App to Move Online, Counter Netflix & Hulu

It is popular to hate Comcast: mostly because so many of us spend lots of money with them … and have few choices otherwise. Between cable, internet and phone, the monthly Comcast bill can be …

Things I Would Love to See in iOS5: Better Notifications
November 21, 2010 – 8:34 am | 688 Comments

Aditya Mukherjee‘s post “Things I would love to see in iOS5″ has risen to the top of Hacker News.

H&M Offers 20% Off Entire Purchase for Facebook Deals Check-In
November 19, 2010 – 7:30 am | 769 Comments
H&M Offers 20% Off Entire Purchase for Facebook Deals Check-In

Within a day of Facebook announcing their new Deals platform, Starbucks started advertising for their check-in rewards.
Retailer H&M is now doing the same: rewarding checked-in users with 20% their purchase. H&M has been an …

Freemium Takes Over iPhone App Store
November 16, 2010 – 1:17 pm | 242 Comments
Freemium Takes Over iPhone App Store

I regularly cover trends in top grossing iPhone / iPad applications. What makes this update noteworthy is that:

Facebook Messaging & The Social Inbox
November 15, 2010 – 12:35 pm | 297 Comments
Facebook Messaging & The Social Inbox

Today Facebook announced Facebook Messages, which bundles together email, chat and text messages to create a single communication stream: “The New Messages: Texts, chat and email together in one simple conversation.” If you haven’t watched, …

Two More Examples of “In the River” Promotions: Google & Yelp
November 14, 2010 – 7:09 am | 621 Comments
Two More Examples of “In the River” Promotions: Google & Yelp

Have you gotten sick of my writing about getting your marketing and product promotions “in the river”?
“In the river” is my terminology for making sure that messages are delivered inside the core experience and …

ESPN’s iPad Experience: Choose Your Own Adventure
November 12, 2010 – 8:10 am | 196 Comments
ESPN’s iPad Experience: Choose Your Own Adventure

I write a lot about the importance of getting product, messaging and promotion “in the river“ (in other words: making sure that messages are delivered inside the core experience and to the respective audience – …

Facebook Deal Redemption in the Feed: Gap & Starbucks
November 7, 2010 – 11:10 am | 350 Comments
Facebook Deal Redemption in the Feed: Gap & Starbucks

Last week I wrote about two updates to Facebook Places: Deals (using Starbucks as an example) and Photo attachments. Those two somewhat combine when deals are redeemed.
If you haven’t seen an example yet: here …