Introducing: Mastering Facebook in Kindle and Paperback
February 21, 2012 – 8:53 am | Comments Off

I’m excited to announce that I’ve turned the last 2+ years of Facebook blog posts into a book focused on Facebook: exciting campaigns, product development, virality, and platform developments. There are 200+ screenshots in the …

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Proof that Kids Love JibJab Jr Books
December 20, 2011 – 11:13 am | Comments Off
Proof that Kids Love JibJab Jr Books

Want proof that JibJab Jr. Books are adored by children?! JibJab Jr. are personalized books for the iPad, updated monthly with new stories, and they now include sound.

MyFace. From FX’s The League.
November 7, 2011 – 10:50 pm | 3 Comments

The world’s first offline social network.
From FX’s The League. This is terrific.

Please excuse the poor quality… home video =)
And please excuse some slight profanity – but still kosher for TV!

Adam Sandler’s Just Go For It Trailer is Facebook Themed
January 23, 2011 – 4:03 pm | 300 Comments
Adam Sandler’s Just Go For It Trailer is Facebook Themed

Continuing the theme of posting about TV commercials… here is the latest spot for Adam Sandler’s new movie “Just Go For It.” The entire spot is created around Facebook: it opens with a Like button …

Mad Men’s New Season: Starring You with JibJab
July 6, 2010 – 4:58 am | 329 Comments
Mad Men’s New Season: Starring You with JibJab

The new season of Mad Men premiers on AMC July 25th…
But why wait until then to get your Mad Men fill?

What the Next Gen Social Network Looks Like
May 23, 2010 – 7:54 pm | 329 Comments
What the Next Gen Social Network Looks Like

Last time NBC’s The Office poked fun at Facebook, it was over a geeky Halloween costume. In The Office’s season finale, they did it again… and it’s great:

HP’s Sarah Jessica Parker Commercial
May 1, 2010 – 6:53 am | 210 Comments
HP’s Sarah Jessica Parker Commercial

HP’s newest commercial features Sarah Jessica Parker (which is very good)… but if you weren’t familiar with the campaign, you could easily mistake it for an Apple advertisement (with its tablet references, swiping and floating …

Levis + Facebook’s Open Graph = Awesome Social Shopping
April 24, 2010 – 12:11 pm | 350 Comments
Levis + Facebook’s Open Graph = Awesome Social Shopping

Facebook’s F8 announcements featured prominent partner integrations with Pandora, IMDB, ESPN and Yelp… but Levi’s quickly demonstrated that the Open Graph and web-wide Like functionality are highly applicable to e-commerce and social shopping. Just as …

Modern Family Gets the iPad
March 31, 2010 – 8:39 pm | 260 Comments

My two current infatuations:
1. The iPad
2. ABC’s Modern Family (best comedy on TV)

Facebook Featured in Xbox’s “It’s More Fun Time” Commercials
November 30, 2009 – 2:27 pm | 34 Comments
Facebook Featured in Xbox’s “It’s More Fun Time” Commercials

Microsoft clearly understands that the platform element of Xbox is as much a selling point as its game titles: in just the first week of being live, 10% of Microsoft’s Xbox Live subscribers connected their …

The Facebook Halloween Costume
October 31, 2009 – 7:10 pm | 536 Comments
The Facebook Halloween Costume

This clip from the office is great. And if you don’t find this funny, then you clearly aren’t as geeky as I am:

Google AdSense Optimizes Ad Units for “High-End Phones” (aka Android & iPhone)
October 5, 2009 – 7:36 am | 629 Comments
Google AdSense Optimizes Ad Units for “High-End Phones” (aka Android & iPhone)

Billed as “AdSense High-End”, Google is now letting advertisers create ads specifically for “high-end” phones like the iPhone and Android-capable devices. While that is a natural evolution of the AdSense platform, Google’s explanation as to …

Starbucks iPhone Apps: Mobile Payments, Shared Drinks & More
September 25, 2009 – 12:28 pm | 755 Comments
Starbucks iPhone Apps: Mobile Payments, Shared Drinks & More

Hats off to Starbucks once more. Starbucks released two iPhone Apps yesterday that are again best-in-class, innovative and compelling from a customer standpoint. The ‘Starbucks’ app allows users to find stores, create custom concoctions, access …