Announcing Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Roster
May 10, 2010 – 4:59 pm | View Comments

We are excited to announce the newest Dogpatch Labs class here in San Francisco. It includes entrepreneurs and companies that have been part of the lab over the last few months and those that just …

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Announcing Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Roster
May 10, 2010 – 4:59 pm | View Comments
Announcing Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Roster

We are excited to announce the newest Dogpatch Labs class here in San Francisco. It includes entrepreneurs and companies that have been part of the lab over the last few months and those that just …

JibJab Celebrates 30 Years of Star Wars
May 10, 2010 – 4:02 pm | View Comments
JibJab Celebrates 30 Years of Star Wars

The blog has been dormant for the past couple weeks – but back from our honeymoon (pictures coming!), I have a slew of quick posts that should have been covered earlier and warrant greater depth… …

Live Streaming: Dogpatch Labs + Wild Pockets 2010 Game Jam
April 28, 2010 – 4:59 pm | View Comments

Tonight Dogpatch Labs is hosting Wild Pocket’s Bay Area Game Jam Workshop. Wild Pockets is one of the several new Dogpatch Labs residents moving in on May 1. Tonight’s workshop is being streamed live via …

Android: “Traffic Growing at Compounded Monthly Rate of 32% per Month”
April 28, 2010 – 4:20 pm | View Comments
Android: “Traffic Growing at Compounded Monthly Rate of 32% per Month”

For mobile news, the best reading each month is the AdMob Mobile Metrics Report (see previous coverage here). The March 2010 report is noteworthy for a few reasons and have a consistent theme: Android has …

With the iPad, Its Time to Think About Books As Apps
April 28, 2010 – 1:53 pm | View Comments
With the iPad, Its Time to Think About Books As Apps

I have already written about how great the reading experience on the iPad is… but its even better when forward-thinking publishers / developers / authors think about book as applications.
As an app, books can …

Amazon Pushes Kindle as Applications; Grows Titles by 20% in Two Months
April 26, 2010 – 3:34 pm | View Comments
Amazon Pushes Kindle as Applications; Grows Titles by 20% in Two Months

Being squeezed by Apple’s iPad and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Amazon’s Kind promotion has moved from hardware to software.
Before the iPad was released, I noted how Amazon aggressively ramped Kindle promotions. The marketing seems …

Levis Promotes Social Shopping with Social Ads
April 26, 2010 – 10:39 am | View Comments
Levis Promotes Social Shopping with Social Ads

Small update from this weekend’s post on Levis great Facebook / Open Graph integration: they are now actively promoting the site with Facebook premium ads. In addition to promoting the Facebook integration, they are providing …

My One Major iPad Complaint: The VGA Adapter
April 25, 2010 – 7:49 pm | View Comments
My One Major iPad Complaint: The VGA Adapter

I have glowingly written about the iPad and its potential to disrupt markets and consumer behaviors. My laptop has become less relevant to my daily life: I no longer bring it home from work and …

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

Adding Facebook Social Plugins
April 23, 2010 – 1:28 pm | View Comments

Fresh out of Facebook’s F8 conference, I have added two of the announced social plugins the blog:
1. The Like Box in the right column, which features an activity stream of the latest ‘liked’
2. The Like …

Jibe Hiring VP of Technology in NYC
April 23, 2010 – 1:14 pm | View Comments

Jibe is hiring a VP of Technology. The job is based in New York and a great opportunity to work with leading social technologies as the fourth employee of a great startup.  I blogged about …

Quick Math: 100m+ Birthday Actions on Facebook per Day?
April 23, 2010 – 9:30 am | View Comments

A rather obvious finding from my birthday yesterday: Facebook is immensely popular. My Facebook wall, email, notifications and SMS alerts were bombarded with birthday notes… several magnitudes greater than last year… and similarly the year …