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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20% of All Google Searches are Location Related
April 20, 2010 – 8:44 am | View Comments
20% of All Google Searches are Location Related

The last week of tech news has revolved around: Twitter, Foursquare, Apple, Google (who today announced Google Places) and Facebook (who announced communities yesterday and has F8 tomorrow).
The common threads across each of these: …

Facebook Testing New Feed Posts to Drive Additional Comments?
April 11, 2010 – 11:25 am | View Comments
Facebook Testing New Feed Posts to Drive Additional Comments?

It appears as though Facebook experimenting with new formats of news feed ‘announcements’ to escalate noteworthy, relevant content to your “top news” feed?
This is the first time I have seen notifications like this via …

Whats Hot in iTunes? Location-Based Apps.
March 22, 2010 – 9:56 am | View Comments
Whats Hot in iTunes? Location-Based Apps.

SXSW 2010 was all about location. In fact, we could look back on 2010 as the year of location and geo… which would be a natural progression from 2009’s mobile growth.
According to iTunes and …

Facebook: 2.8 Billion Visits, 21.9 Visits / Unique in February
March 18, 2010 – 9:33 am | View Comments
Facebook: 2.8 Billion Visits, 21.9 Visits / Unique in February

January marked the month where Facebook passed Google in visits and Yahoo in Uniques. Today, Compete released their February 2010 numbers and the trends continued:
1. Google remains the largest by reach (with 141m uniques) and …

Foursquare Traffic Sources: Facebook 33%, Google 22%
March 16, 2010 – 11:13 am | View Comments
Foursquare Traffic Sources: Facebook 33%, Google 22%

As you can tell from recent blog posts, I have been spending time looking at traffic sources for various sites (Facebook, Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, etc).
New data from Hitwise reveals that one-third of Foursquare’s traffic …

Facebook Represents 7% of all Internet Visits
March 15, 2010 – 1:03 pm | View Comments
Facebook Represents 7% of all Internet Visits

According to new Hitwise data, 7.07% of all internet visits go to Facebook.
Google is the second largest at 7.03%.
And Yahoo is a distant third at 3.67%.

Follow McDonalds on Facebook, Are you Sure?
March 12, 2010 – 12:49 pm | View Comments

Several social media best practices – particularly on Facebook – come from big consumer brands: Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, Rockstar, Vitamin Water, etc. McDonalds is arguably the biggest brand, but….
Go to McDonalds.com and notice prominent links …

Farmville Defaults to Facebook Credits
March 10, 2010 – 6:56 pm | View Comments
Farmville Defaults to Facebook Credits

I encourage you to read Eric Eldon’s piece on InsideFacebook about how Facebook’s most popular game, Farmville, now defaults to Facebook Credits and Payments.
As location and geo dominate the blog headlines (Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla), …

Facebook iPhone Usage +20% from Post-Logout Promotion
March 8, 2010 – 11:23 am | View Comments
Facebook iPhone Usage +20% from Post-Logout Promotion

When discussing marketing and product strategies, I sometimes come across as a broken record! One of things I preach is the power of change. A button’s color, an ad’s call to action, or the placement …

Vitaminwater Connect: 100,000 Free Bottles Via Facebook
March 6, 2010 – 11:39 am | View Comments
Vitaminwater Connect: 100,000 Free Bottles Via Facebook

Vitaminwater has introduced its newest flavor: Vitaminwater Connect (named after Facebook Connect)… and they are giving away 100,000 free bottles of Connect to their 1.2 million Facebook fans. If you remember, over the last few …

As SERPs Get More Crowded, SEO Gets More Challenging (With New Opportunities)
March 3, 2010 – 3:07 pm | View Comments
As SERPs Get More Crowded, SEO Gets More Challenging (With New Opportunities)

Internet marketers used to optimize for the “first page” – in other words, being one of the top ten natural search results. While there was declining value with each search position, you could still derive …

3.5 Million Facebook Updates At Peak of Olympic Hockey Game
March 1, 2010 – 12:20 pm | View Comments
3.5 Million Facebook Updates At Peak of Olympic Hockey Game

Great stats from Facebook regarding the Olympic Hockey game yesterday afternoon:
Olympic Spirit: The sending of status messages on Facebook peaked Sunday at 2:29 pm PST and 2:54 pm PST during two significant goals in the …