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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Netflix iPad App Now Supports VGA Adapter
May 20, 2010 – 12:43 pm | View Comments
Netflix iPad App Now Supports VGA Adapter

About a month ago, I complained about the iPad’s VGA Adapter only supporting a limited number of just Apple-developed applications. We are moving in the right direction:
As of yesterday, you can now stream Netflix …

Kindle: More 5-Star Reviews than any Amazon Product!
May 15, 2010 – 1:10 pm | View Comments

In my ongoing fascination / following of Amazon’s marketing for the popular Kindle device (see February, March and April campaigns) – I have another to add:

Apple Actively Promoting Facebook App Store Page
May 13, 2010 – 10:26 am | View Comments
Apple Actively Promoting Facebook App Store Page

As I have written numerous times before: “finding” (ie search and filtering) becomes exponentially more difficult as inventory grows. Apple’s app gallery faces this problem (as do giants like eBay, Amazon, etc). For instance, it …

Facebook’s New “Promote Your Post” Ads
May 12, 2010 – 3:05 pm | View Comments
Facebook’s New “Promote Your Post” Ads

Facebook has become very good at integrating revenue streams into key user flows…. effectively creating powerful upsell opportunities. For example, when you create a Facebook Page, you are promptly greeted with dynamically generated ads to …

DukeGEN Angel Pitch Event @ Dogpatch Labs Tomorrow Night
May 11, 2010 – 1:27 pm | View Comments
DukeGEN Angel Pitch Event @ Dogpatch Labs Tomorrow Night

I am very excited to be part of a great evening at Dogpatch Labs tomorrow evening for the Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network (“DukeGEN”) Angel Pitch Night. We have eight companies backed by Duke graduates and …

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… …

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

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 …