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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InGameNow Launches – Brings Sports Scores, Chatter Mobile
June 25, 2008 – 7:55 pm | 448 Comments

I haven’t blogged much in the last week – but I have good reason: we’ve been hard at work on InGameNow… and, just in time for tomorrow’s NBA Draft, we officially launched today!

InGameNow: Twitter for …

Long Tail Analytics with Quantcast, Google Trends & Compete – Who Wins?
June 21, 2008 – 11:28 pm | 322 Comments

Google entered the public web analytics game yesterday by expanding Google Trends beyond search queries and into web traffic. Just a couple years ago, we had two options for web data:
- Comscore provided detailed analytics …

Google Trends Launches – Apparently I’m Techmeme’s 3rd Most Overlapped Site? (No Way!)
June 20, 2008 – 12:45 pm | 652 Comments

Google today announced that they are moving Google Trends closer towards Quantcast and Compete’s territories… This is potentially big news – but it depends on how transparent Google decides to be and how well integrated …

Pizza Hut Shows How NOT to do Paid Search
June 19, 2008 – 8:38 pm | 214 Comments

Yesterday, I wrote about the three keys to creating a compelling widget.
Tonight, I am moved to write about how *not* to craft compelling paid search campaigns:

There are so many things wrong with this ad that …

Designing a Compelling Widget: Three Keys to Widget Engagement
June 18, 2008 – 8:49 pm | 930 Comments

This week the Widget World Expo took place in New York and Fred Wilson gave a supposedly terrific speech titled “Why Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We’re Doing”. I really wish that I …

The Evolution of Social Content: From Email to Blogs to Disqus / FriendFeed
June 15, 2008 – 1:28 pm | 340 Comments

Fred Wilson’s last two blog posts are about the changing / evolving blog landscape:
1) the death of “long form blogging” (ironic)
2) the evolution of blog commenting and how comments are becoming as important as the …

David Stern’s Brand Problem: 41% of Fans Believe NBA Fixes Games
June 15, 2008 – 1:02 pm | 758 Comments

Tonight, the Boston Celtics have an opportunity to win the 2007-2008 NBA Championship against the Los Angeles Lakers. The game will likely draw huge ratings and put an exclamation point on a terrific, renaissance season …

Premium Content and Advertising… Content is King
June 14, 2008 – 9:08 pm | 288 Comments

I subscribe to ESPN’s Insider service… and I’ve written many times about why.
Today, while listening to my favorite radio show (The Thundering Herd), I noticed that ESPN started pushing ads directly into the programs. I …

Twhirl and AlertThingy Leave Me Half Full, Half Satisfied
June 14, 2008 – 8:54 pm | 400 Comments

I love Twitter. And I’ve written about why.
I also struggle with Twitter… and I’ve written about that too.
But one thing remains consistent with my Twitter usage: it happens on third-parties like Twhirl and Alert Thingy …

Why I’m Turning in my Blackberry for an iPhone 3G
June 14, 2008 – 8:44 pm | 483 Comments

I love my blackberry. And I’ve written about how much I love it.
I am disappointed by the ‘iPhone 2.0′ – it doesn’t have video recording – let alone MMS.
… But today I dropped …

Finding a Co-Founder – Technical and Non-Technical Founders
June 11, 2008 – 9:30 pm | 360 Comments

I continue to be impressed by the quality and intensity of discussions on Hacker News. A common topic of discussion is whether:
1) a company is better off with co-founders than founders
2) do co-founders need to …

Techmeme Leaderboard – Top 100 Techmeme Sources in Widgets!
June 10, 2008 – 11:10 pm | 3 Comments

Want to stay atop of Techmeme’s top 100 blogs?
Using Widgetbox’s Blidget tool, I’ve turned each of the Techmeme Leaderboard blogs (the top 100 headline sources) into widgets and broken them down into four pages. …