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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I Lost My Comments Installing the New Disqus & Facebook Connect
December 29, 2008 – 7:58 pm | 248 Comments

Some good news:
You can now comment on this blog using Facebook Connect and Seesmic. I upgraded versions of Disqus to enable it (very slick).
Some bad news:
While installing the new Disqus version, I encountered some issues …

2009 Predictions: iPhone Gaming Will Replace Nintendo and Sony
December 29, 2008 – 1:10 pm | 244 Comments
2009 Predictions: iPhone Gaming Will Replace Nintendo and Sony

My 20 Digital Media Predictions for 2009 series continues with a story (The Dream iPhone) that tangentially sits atop Techmeme at the moment.
Most of the talk about the below iPhone v2 mock ups are …

beRecruited Featured in Guam’s Pacific Daily News
December 27, 2008 – 10:41 pm | 530 Comments
beRecruited Featured in Guam’s Pacific Daily News

A few days after beRecruited’s feature in the Wall Street Journal is the below mention from Guam’s Pacific Daily News. The article profiles a local softball player – MeiLani Quintanilla – who received a scholarship …

2009 Predictions: More Huffington Posts and Daily Beasts
December 24, 2008 – 6:35 am | 324 Comments
2009 Predictions: More Huffington Posts and Daily Beasts

First there was the Drudge Report.
Now there is the Huffington Post.
… And Politico.
… And The Daily Beast.
And as part of my 20 Digital Media Predictions for 2009 series, I am suggesting that there will …

2009 Predictions: Online Video Habits Will Grow Behind Hulu
December 22, 2008 – 5:37 pm | 349 Comments
2009 Predictions: Online Video Habits Will Grow Behind Hulu

This is the first in the twenty-part series of my “2009 Digital Media Predictions”… with twenty predictions of course. Each segment is going to add color to one of the predictions from the initial list. …

20 Predictions for Digital Media in 2009
December 22, 2008 – 7:54 am | 12 Comments
20 Predictions for Digital Media in 2009

With the new year fast approaching, I’ve put together a list of 20 digital media trends I predict in the forthcoming year. I plan to write specific posts about each – so for now, these …

beRecruited Featured in Today’s Wall Street Journal
December 18, 2008 – 7:19 am | 831 Comments
beRecruited Featured in Today’s Wall Street Journal

beRecruited is prominently featured in today’s Wall Street Journal article, “The Do-It-Yourself Scholarship“, which graces the cover of the Personal Section.
Author Matthew Futterman gives a thorough overview of collegiate sports recruiting and how the …

Homepage Advertising: Wall Street Journal & Boston.com
December 15, 2008 – 7:03 pm | 698 Comments
Homepage Advertising: Wall Street Journal & Boston.com

I’ve recently spent a lot of time on Boston.com tracking Red Sox free agency rumors. I’ve been very impressed with Boston.com’s revamped sports section and blogging efforts (the best I’ve seen for online newspaper sources) …

Google Image Search: Now with Text Ads. Ugh.
December 14, 2008 – 7:37 pm | 242 Comments
Google Image Search: Now with Text Ads. Ugh.

Much has been made of Google’s willingness – and now need considering the economic downturn – to monetize Google Images search. Google has even suggested that it may mean an incremental $200 million.
But they’ve …

Three Reasons Facebook Doesn’t Work for Brands
December 13, 2008 – 9:42 pm | 562 Comments
Three Reasons Facebook Doesn’t Work for Brands

If I was unsurprised that P&G was struggling to advertise on Facebook, 247WallStreet was convinced. Their reaction to the New York Times piece illustrating the struggles of Facebook-based brand campaigns was… And?!
And they provide three …

Is It Surprising that P&G, Tide Struggle with Facebook Advertising?
December 13, 2008 – 9:23 pm | 217 Comments
Is It Surprising that P&G, Tide Struggle with Facebook Advertising?

In today’s New York Times, Randall Stross dissects the world of brand advertising within social networks. Stross’ article, Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites, delves into whether or not brands can scalably succeed on …

Apple, iPod Touch Shake Up Yahoo Games Homepage
December 12, 2008 – 11:18 am | 673 Comments
Apple, iPod Touch Shake Up Yahoo Games Homepage

A few months ago, Nintendo and YouTube literally shook up the digital ad world with their Experiece the Wii ad/video. It’s awesome. 4,500,000 video views aren’t too shabby either.
Today, Apple did something similar by running …