Announcing Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Roster
May 10, 2010 – 4:59 pm | View Comments

We are excited to announce the newest Dogpatch Labs class here in San Francisco. It includes entrepreneurs and companies that have been part of the lab over the last few months and those that just …

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Twitter Launches Tweet Button; Publishers to Allocate Pixel Real Estate
August 12, 2010 – 8:17 am | View Comments
Twitter Launches Tweet Button; Publishers to Allocate Pixel Real Estate

Twitter has officially launched their Tweet Button – a natural move which will place them beside Facebook’s like buttons… and across millions of pages on the web (soon to be on this blog!). The question …

Carl’s Jr Launches Viral Ad Campaign on Facebook. It’s Great.
May 24, 2010 – 8:55 am | View Comments
Carl’s Jr Launches Viral Ad Campaign on Facebook. It’s Great.

Remember Burger King’s 2005 Subservient Chicken ad campaign? It is listed on Wikipedia as a notable example of “viral marketing campaigns” and was cited by Wired Magazine as one of the most successful viral ads …

Polaris is Excited to Back Formspring.me
March 23, 2010 – 11:40 am | View Comments
Polaris is Excited to Back Formspring.me

Yesterday, Formspring (http://www.formspring.me) announced a $2.5m Series A investment that was led by Baseline Ventures and FreeStyle Capital. Polaris is excited to also participate alongside a slew of terrific angel investors: Ron Conway’s SV Angels, …

Foursquare Traffic Sources: Facebook 33%, Google 22%
March 16, 2010 – 11:13 am | View Comments
Foursquare Traffic Sources: Facebook 33%, Google 22%

As you can tell from recent blog posts, I have been spending time looking at traffic sources for various sites (Facebook, Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, etc).
New data from Hitwise reveals that one-third of Foursquare’s traffic …

Brizzly Launches iPhone App & Brizzly Guide
March 10, 2010 – 1:51 pm | View Comments
Brizzly Launches iPhone App & Brizzly Guide

A big, exciting day for Brizzly (whom I have written about more than a few times!). Today they announce two major product launches:
1. Brizzly for the iPhone

7 Reasons Google Buzz Matters
February 11, 2010 – 7:20 am | View Comments

Mind you, this is coming from a someone who does not profess to understand Google Wave (after several attempts)…
and from someone who believes that Facebook is the bigger than most give it credit for.
Here are …

SEO: Content is King; Social Media: Context is King
February 8, 2010 – 8:45 am | View Comments
SEO: Content is King; Social Media: Context is King

While leading natural search strategy at eBay, we had a motto: Content is King. It wasn’t a unique tagline – even CKX, Inc (American Idol, Elvis Presley, etc) stands for “Content is King”.
While at the …

Checking-In: The Geo-coded Status Update
February 6, 2010 – 12:37 pm | View Comments
Checking-In: The Geo-coded Status Update

Two excellent posts on the current status of geo-location companies by Robert Scoble and Hunter Walk (both bloggers are great and their blogs are must reads). Scoble argues that industry-first Foursquare is being squeezed by …

Twitter Local Trends: Local Search is About to Change
January 26, 2010 – 7:16 pm | View Comments
Twitter Local Trends: Local Search is About to Change

I might be in the minority here, but I consider Twitter’s launch of Local Trends Twitter’s most significant product advancement since… launch? It will no doubt be overshadowed by tomorrow’s Apple announcement – but local …

Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers
December 24, 2009 – 9:23 am | View Comments
Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers

Mike Hirshland today has a blog post, “Friends or Followers“, which describes the frequent conversation / debate around Facebook and Twitter:
In the course of our meeting [at Facebook] the Twitter question came up, and we …

Bit.ly Celebrates Hanukkah
December 14, 2009 – 6:53 pm | View Comments
Bit.ly Celebrates Hanukkah

And just to continue the URL shortener theme… I just noticed that Bit.ly celebrates Hanukkah with a really funny / clever graphic. It’s part underwater blob (their normal ‘mascot’) and part dreidel:

Bitly Update from …

One Week: Facebook’s FB.me and Google’s Goo.gl
December 14, 2009 – 4:34 pm | View Comments
One Week: Facebook’s FB.me and Google’s Goo.gl

I wrote on Saturday that Facebook had rolled out a new URL shortener, FB.me (covered on InsideFacebook here):

Today, Google announced their own shortener: Goo.gl. Interestingly, it is available only on the Google Toolbar, as a …