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 …

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, …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …