Thanks to the success of Foursquare, Booyah / MyTown and Zynga, “game mechanics”, “badges” and “leaderboards” have become cornerstones of any web marketer’s dialect and user-acquisition strategy.
What these three companies have done so well is …

Not because I shop regularly on Gilt Group or eBay…
But I encourage iPad users and folks within e-commerce to download their iPad apps…
Because it represents that potential of what e-commerce can look like atop the …

In all the developer attention paid to mobile, Facebook and web-based applications, “desktop widgets” have been the big loser. They were thought to be a major selling point when Microsoft Vista was launching – and …

eBay’s “Come to Think of It” advertising campaign is all over television… and is now making its way across the internet as well. The below screenshots are of a matching campaign on Gizmodo. The ad …

In March, I wrote about Apple’s full page advertisement in the New York Times touting the iPhone as a weekend tool: “Getting the most out of your weekend, one app at a time.”
In yesterday’s New …

Over the last three nights and dinners, the same debate has arose among three separate groups of friends: the role of competition within the the web and user behaviors.
My strong feeling is that, other …

Interesting data out of Comscore and TechCrunch this morning that points to the slowing growth of paid search activity despite a rise in search activity. Comscore believes it is a consequence of longer search queries, …

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It’s a staggering number: 1,000,000,000.
The iPhone App store launched in July of 2008 and grew faster than most anticipated – both inventory and adoption. The App Store’s 25,000 apps …

This morning, Motley Fool asks whether it is game over for Game Stop as Toys “R” Us in encroaching into their territory of video game buying / selling / trading.
… who cares?
I continue to …

Read this blog enough and you certainly know that the one company I rely on and respect most is Amazon. Almost daily, I use Amazon as an example in good product experience, design, strategy, etc. …

I have always been a major Wordpress fan and used any opportunity to plug both Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.
Now – I have an even greater reason to speak their praises: Wordpress 2.7 is exceptional. I …

News arrived yesterday that Google is shutting down their Print and Radio ad systems. It’s unfortunate news for brand advertisers and the traditional media formats.

An ironic tag-line for Google’s Print & Radio Platform
With eBay …