Announcing Dogpatch Labs Palo Alto & Europe
September 29, 2011 – 8:27 am | 349 Comments

In early September, we got the unfortunate news that the San Francisco Port Authority was closing Pier 38 (home to Dogpatch Labs San Francisco).

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ESPN Brings Twitter into Fantasy Football App. Getting Closer.
September 13, 2011 – 7:52 am | One Comment
ESPN Brings Twitter into Fantasy Football App. Getting Closer.

In April, I wrote a response to Mark Cuban’s “Does ESPN.com have a Twitter Problem“. My premise was that Twitter is a huge, (relatively) under-utilized platform for ESPN to break news, engage with fans and …

Facebook Search = Social Graph + Like Graph
September 1, 2011 – 8:10 am | 17 Comments
Facebook Search = Social Graph + Like Graph

Twitter search is becoming more intelligent and powerful.
Google Search is becoming more social.
And here’s an example of Facebook doing both:

Why Twitter Images Is Important (Screenshot)
August 22, 2011 – 5:37 am | 20 Comments
Why Twitter Images Is Important (Screenshot)

Twitter recently rolled out their native image product (with other media types apparently on the way). It’s a simple integration that makes a ton of sense from a product perspective… particularly for Twitter mobile.

Google Plus Now My #3 Referring Site.
July 22, 2011 – 1:35 pm | 389 Comments
Google Plus Now My #3 Referring Site.

Google Plus now has 20m+ users and a the press can’t get enough of it. The obvious question is what does engagement look like both near and long-term. One indicator is referral traffic. So here …

The Difference Between Marketing Emails & Notification Emails. Facebook & Twitter Demonstrate.
June 29, 2011 – 9:05 am | 437 Comments
The Difference Between Marketing Emails & Notification Emails. Facebook & Twitter Demonstrate.

Groupon, Rue La La, Gilt Group, etc have built big businesses atop big email lists and great email marketing.
Twitter has beefed up their email efforts by delivering notifications for retweets, mentions and favorites by your …

Apple, Twitter, iOS5 and Facebook’s Phone Integration (Welcomed or Not)
June 24, 2011 – 8:12 am | 394 Comments
Apple, Twitter, iOS5 and Facebook’s Phone Integration (Welcomed or Not)

The more I play with Apple’s iOS5, the more impressed I am with the Twitter integration.
And the more aware I am of the potential impact it has on Twitter…
But why isn’t Facebook integrated instead or …

Quick Apple iOS5 Thoughts: Twitter & iMessage Win Big.
June 10, 2011 – 6:37 am | 329 Comments
Quick Apple iOS5 Thoughts: Twitter & iMessage Win Big.

Having played with Apple’s iOS5 for a couple days, here are two big thoughts and a few brief ones after that:

Sports Illustrated, Jim Tressel and Not Taking Advantage of Virality.
May 31, 2011 – 9:13 am | Comments Off
Sports Illustrated, Jim Tressel and Not Taking Advantage of Virality.

I write a lot about “in the river” marketing – which is all about leveraging the power of existing, engaged traffic to deliver relevant, actionable messaging / marketing / promotions. You can see lots of …

Having to Unlearn Twitter to Learn Tweetbot… A Designer’s Dilemma
April 24, 2011 – 12:08 pm | 349 Comments
Having to Unlearn Twitter to Learn Tweetbot… A Designer’s Dilemma

After reading the rave reviews, I traded in Twitter’s iPhone App for Tweetbot. It’s great – glossy, fast and customizable.

Twitter Promotes Mobile Apps & SMS To Logged-Out Users. Smart.
April 21, 2011 – 4:37 pm | 300 Comments

A little over a year ago, I wrote about Facebook’s post-logout promotion of Facebook Mobile – which helped to significantly increase iPhone usage (+20% in a week).

Meanwhile, another giant social / mobile player is …

Twitter Promoted Tweets & Effective Real-Time, Event-Based Advertising
April 19, 2011 – 10:22 am | 597 Comments
Twitter Promoted Tweets & Effective Real-Time, Event-Based Advertising

For much of today, my blog was unaccessible because Media Temple had a far-reaching outage.
After unsuccessfully trying to reach my site, I was made aware of this through Twitter (why no email correspondence?)… with …

For Social Ads, Voice and Relevance are more Important than Just Reach.
April 11, 2011 – 4:57 am | 351 Comments
For Social Ads, Voice and Relevance are more Important than Just Reach.

This Twitter post / ad from Darrelle Revis of the New York Jets is a reminder that ads need to be relevant. And relevancy is a function of voice AND message. This is precisely why …