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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Groupon has reached such scale, that you could spend hours digging into the data and come away with dozens of fascinating takeaways (around geography, consumers, businesses, deals, etc). Here are ten fun and perhaps surprising …
Yesterday, TechCrunch covered the $1m that eBay / PayPal had raised for Japan earthquake and tsunami relief. It’s been heartwarming to see such big brands and platforms leverage their communities – and their scale – …
For South by Southwest 2011, we constructed a two-day long Dogpatch Labs SXSW and, over that period, hosted 100s of entrepreneurs. It was a lot of fun and a big success (TheStreet, Inc, NY Observer, …
Last night, TechCrunch reported that Facebook announced the forthcoming launch of Facebook Deals. Facebook’s clear push is around finding activities and local businesses that can be enjoyed among friends… which is a very different value …
It’s no surprise that Zappos:
1) pays attention to customer service
2) markets to and communicates with customers well
As South by Southwest approaches, start-ups are polishing their applications and planning their launch parties. And today Mashable listed the “13 Potential Breakout Apps to Watch at SXSW 2011“. Of the thirteen companies to watch, …
The .co domain is hot… at least from a marketing perspective.
GoDaddy and others have run large television campaigns (including during the Super Bowl) to promote the new domain. I have no data to suggest …
In July, I raved about YouTube’s innovative mobile “Add to Homescreen” promotion. Eightbit.me has gone a step further and actually requires users to “add eightbit to [iPhone] homescreen”. In fact, each time you visit Eightbit.me, …
Continuing to post select Quora answers on my blog – you can view them here.
A few obvious themes and a couple apps associated with them:
- Gaming. Games make up the majority of the most successful …
I apologize for this not being a full blog post – but Twitter’s 140 characters weren’t enough. I need just a little more =)
Businessweek’s recent article, Techdom’s Talent Poaching Epidemic, is an important and under-discussed …
Earlier in the week, I explained why Facebook Comments are important. Clearly others agree as Facebook announced launch partners for three verticals: commerce, media and sports.
Facebook rolled out their long-awaited commenting system today. Like other publishers, I immediately installed it on my blog (just scroll down a little and try it out)… here’s why it’s important:
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