Microsoft's real problem
I almost wrote a very long blog post telling Microsoft how it could get back into the search business. In response to all this stuff in the Wall Street Journal and on TechMeme about how Steve Ballmer...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed
It no longer is about Data Portability or Social Graph Portability, if you will. I’m hearing these rumors too that John Furrier (my ex-boss) is reporting. That Microsoft will buy Yahoo’s search and...
View ArticleAdvertising in casual games
One thing that came out of last week’s meetings with lots of elected officials is that their attention is on the advertising industry and that means our attention should be on it too. One interview in...
View ArticleMy Fourth of July Present to you: the geeky Congresswoman
Get in a patriotic mood by listening to our conversation with Zoe Lofgren, the world’s geekiest politician (she’s a Congresswoman from Silicon Valley). This is part of our trip to Washington DC. “We’re...
View ArticleThe best marketer of 2008 reads us the ROI act
You think the best marketer of the year is Tom Peters? Guy Kawasaki? Seth Godin? Sorry guys. It’s Gary Vaynerchuk. He owns a sizeable wine store in New Jersey. Sells $50 million a year. And he reads...
View ArticleSocial network advertising: not your father's banner ad
When i visited the San Jose Mercury News yesterday, what did we talk about? Advertising and how newspapers were going to make it online. Well, one trend we’re seeing big time is the move to social...
View ArticleJPG's dead. Why your advertising-funded business could be next…
JPG Magazine is dead. That’s a bummer because, as TechCrunch wrote this morning, it was a radical idea in publishing: one that used crowd-sourced data to serve the magazine’s readers. There were a few...
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