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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Facebook Clustering Feed Posts by Content. Topical Hubs, Search Logical Next Steps?
August 18, 2011 – 6:41 am | 5 Comments
Facebook Clustering Feed Posts by Content. Topical Hubs, Search Logical Next Steps?

Facebook has long clustered feed posts by type: friending people, changing profile pics, playing games, etc.
Here are two examples of Facebook clustering feed posts by content… which is a bigger & more important concept …

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 …

Twitter: Want to keep using Twitter on your phone?
February 18, 2011 – 12:36 pm | 227 Comments
Twitter: Want to keep using Twitter on your phone?

Fascinating…. way too early to have intelligent commentary on the Twitter / Uber Twitter developments (see here, here, here), but Twitter’s @Support response is fascinating:

Twitter’s Surprising iPhone App UI
October 6, 2010 – 1:26 pm | 606 Comments
Twitter’s Surprising iPhone App UI

Not previously known as a leading designer, Twitter has been on a roll with their latest iPhone app, iPad app, and New Twitter. Here is a good example of why – but with some learnings …

The Power of Statistics & Dashboards (About.me as an example)
September 22, 2010 – 7:34 am | 221 Comments
The Power of Statistics & Dashboards (About.me as an example)

In May of 2008 I wrote that statistics – specifically around referrals and influencers – could be a sizeable business model for Twitter.

Twitter by the Numbers – 6B API Calls / Day; 70,000 Calls / Sec
September 15, 2010 – 7:29 am | 307 Comments
Twitter by the Numbers – 6B API Calls / Day; 70,000 Calls / Sec

Great Twitter presentation by Raffi Krikorian of Twitter’s API team. The talk is from a presentation at UC Berkeley and he talks about Twitter’s platform, scale, etc.

Twitter Launches Tweet Button; Publishers to Allocate Pixel Real Estate
August 12, 2010 – 8:17 am | 516 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 | 592 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 | 300 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 | 711 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 | One Comment
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 | 222 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 …