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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Evernote’s Clean Homepage. What to Learn.
November 17, 2011 – 6:03 pm | Comments Off
Evernote’s Clean Homepage. What to Learn.

I love Evernote. It’s one of the few products I use daily and on every device I own. I also love their homepage because it is super simple and focuses on two single actions: learn …

Twitter’s Activity Stream Speaks Specifically to Me
November 15, 2011 – 12:55 pm | Comments Off
Twitter’s Activity Stream Speaks Specifically to Me

I give Twitter a lot of credit for rolling out their new Activity Stream.
Sure, it’s quite ugly… that can be fixed.
And sure, it’s a glorified newsfeed / timeline… but it’s core to Twitter.

NBA.com Demonstrates Common Oversight of Mobile E-Commerce / Promotion
November 13, 2011 – 8:03 am | One Comment
NBA.com Demonstrates Common Oversight of Mobile E-Commerce / Promotion

If you read me regularly, you know that I have a major pet peeve around unoptimized (and often dysfunctional) mobile experiences. So often mobile is treated an extension of the web experience and that results …

Introducing Mixel
November 10, 2011 – 9:49 am | 50 Comments
Introducing Mixel

A Dogpatch Labs NYC and Polaris-backed startup, Mixel launched this morning. Using the iPad – Mixel lets you make, share and remix collages in a whole new way. You can download it in the app …

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!

Amazon’s Kindle Lending Club Makes the Already-Affordable Kindle Fire Even More Attractive
November 4, 2011 – 12:31 pm | 3 Comments
Amazon’s Kindle Lending Club Makes the Already-Affordable Kindle Fire Even More Attractive

In the last month alone, I have purchased three books on the Amazon Kindle store (I use the Kindle app on the iPad)… had Amazon’s new Kindle Lending Library program been live, I would have …

Google Chrome Better Promoting Chrome Apps
November 2, 2011 – 9:25 am | 60 Comments
Google Chrome Better Promoting Chrome Apps

Google has rolled out a new Chrome homepage that allows users to toggle between “most visited” websites and Chrome Applications. It also creates a navigational panel at the page’s footer.

Facebook Rolls Out Subscribe to Comments. Improves Product and Promotes the Still-Hard-To-Find Subscribe Feature.
October 31, 2011 – 12:12 pm | 69 Comments
Facebook Rolls Out Subscribe to Comments. Improves Product and Promotes the Still-Hard-To-Find Subscribe Feature.

Facebook has begun integrating their new Subscribe functionality into Facebook Comments. It includes a small subscribe link next to each commenter’s name / icon that allows in-line subscription. That does a few things:

ESPN’s Grantland & Bill Simmons Show How Publisher Networks Can & Should Leverage Twitter
October 29, 2011 – 7:25 am | 4 Comments
ESPN’s Grantland & Bill Simmons Show How Publisher Networks Can & Should Leverage Twitter

I’ve written a fair amount about how publishers should be better leveraging Twitter, Facebook Subscribe, and social products… and even tailored it to verticals like sports.

HBO Go: Delightful, Albeit Inefficient, Exploration. And That’s Fine By Me.
October 26, 2011 – 9:41 am | 3 Comments
HBO Go: Delightful, Albeit Inefficient, Exploration. And That’s Fine By Me.

Below is a screenshot of HBO Go’s iPad App. It’s gorgeous, fun and highly dynamic.
It represents the shift of paid content to mobile: HBO Go, ESPN Watch, Netflix, Hulu, etc.

Twitter Search May Surprise You
October 25, 2011 – 9:02 am | Comments Off
Twitter Search May Surprise You

Notice anything about the below screenshot of a Twitter search? Only two of the tweets actually contain the search query (“Peyton Hillis”)…. but all of the returned tweets are relevant and discuss “Peyton Hillis” on …

Groupon’s IPO Slideshow
October 21, 2011 – 9:14 am | 3 Comments
Groupon’s IPO Slideshow

I encourage you to read through Groupon’s roadshow presentation that TechCrunch posted today. I find the last two slides most interesting: the future of Groupon as a product and what it means for growth trajectory. …