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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SEO: Content is King; Social Media: Context is King
February 8, 2010 – 8:45 am | 196 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 | 216 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 | 356 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 | Comments Off
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 | 221 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 | 3 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 …

Dynamic Twitter Results Now Appearing Within Google SERPs
December 10, 2009 – 4:27 am | 804 Comments
Dynamic Twitter Results Now Appearing Within Google SERPs

This is my first time seeing Twitter results integrated within a Google search results page. The below query is for “Windows 7″ and you will notice a dynamic Twitter ‘widget’ in-line with other results. The …

The Bit.ly Google Chrome Extension Is Also Awesome
December 8, 2009 – 6:27 pm | 210 Comments
The Bit.ly Google Chrome Extension Is Also Awesome

I just raved about Google Chrome extensions and, in particular, the Brizzly extension. Well the Bit.ly Chrome extension is also great:

Once the extension is installed, it allows you to easily post to Bitly and access …

Chrome Releases Extensions, Including Brizzly (Both are Awesome)
December 8, 2009 – 5:38 pm | 346 Comments
Chrome Releases Extensions, Including Brizzly (Both are Awesome)

Google Chrome has released their “Chrome Extensions” library with nearly 400 functional extensions… and, just like the browser, the extensions are light weight, functional and great looking (the icons animate, have gloss, and so forth). …

Facebook Fan Pages Now Available for Google Search / SEO
December 7, 2009 – 3:09 pm | 315 Comments
Facebook Fan Pages Now Available for Google Search / SEO

A relatively major announcement came out at the end of today’s Google Search Event – Marissa Mayer announced that Google will receive real-time access from Facebook Fan Page updates:
“Facebook will be providing us with a …

Google Acquires AppJet (Creators of Etherpad) – Congratulations!
December 4, 2009 – 8:02 pm | One Comment
Google Acquires AppJet (Creators of Etherpad) – Congratulations!

Dogpatch Labs resident Appjet – makers of the the collaborative, realtime document editor EtherPad – has been acquired by Google. As announced on their blog, AppJet will be joining the Google Wave team and “the …

Wendy’s Real Time: An Interactive, Social Ad Campaign About Bacon
November 3, 2009 – 7:46 am | 524 Comments
Wendy’s Real Time: An Interactive, Social Ad Campaign About Bacon

Wendy’s has been advertising their new Bacon Deluxe burger which features four strips of Applewood bacon:

So unless you love bacon, why is this interesting? Because Wendy’s has been promoting the burger heavily in an interactive …