Month: November 2006
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Wanna get Xinged or LinkedIn?!
Quick update: Carsten, thanks for your comments. I tried once again to post a comment on Search Engine Journal and it gave me the same error: Sorry, but your comment has been flagged by the spam filter running on this blog: this might be an error, in which case all apologies. Your comment will be…
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Questions… More Questions…
Just some random questions around our community and marketing. Feel free to post your answers… 1. What’s up with Dead 2.0? Is Dead 2.0 really dead? For those of you following silicon valley blogs, you may recognize dead 2.0 as the eternal skeptic, posting about all things web 2.0, bubble and otherwise. However, ever since…
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Is MySpace the next WalMart? AMA thinks so…
I know. The post title is misleading. But, now that I’ve got your attention: In a recent survey commissioned by the American Marketing Association (AMA), it is suggested that visitors to social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc… would be interested in purchasing products recommended by friends directly on these sites. Here are the stats:…
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MPlanet Update
Well, not all plans work out perfectly! It looks like I won’t be able to attend Mplanet after all. I’d like to thank Paul & Nicole at my agency for seriously considering the opportunity to attend. Ann, Eric — I can’t wait to read, hear, and see your coverage of the event. Also, I think…
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A great year for giving Thanks!
The past year has truly been a roller coaster in my life – both professional and personal. The one reason I was able to take the sweet with the sour was the support of family & friends who time and again stepped up during trying circumstances, thereby reminding me how important their contribution has been…
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Heard your inner “Marketing Voices”?
Well, I had a chance to chat with Jeremiah‘s future colleague and fellow “Podtech”nologist — Jennifer Jones, earlier today. For those of you, who haven’t heard, Jennifer runs Podtech’s Marketing Podcast Series titled “Marketing Voices“. It’s a unique blend of marketing speak with podcast interviews of a broad range of marketers (corporate and otherwise). As…
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If Elephants can dance, so can Yahoo!
The Yahoo! memo outage brought up a flurry of discussions within the blogosphere. I thought it may be interesting to address a few view blog posts on the topic: John Furrier at Podtech says: Personally I think that it’s a ‘dead man walking’ memo – he must be one step out the door to write…
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Heads must roll at Yahoo! – Says who?
Blow up the Matrix.Catch the balls.Kill the redundancies. And stop eating peanut butter (Source: Yahoo!’s Peanut Butter Manifesto — No kiddin!) Huh! I’m quoting verbatim from a Yahoo! wide internal memo leaked yesterday to WSJ yesterday that has the whole blogosphere abuzz. That it comes from Senior VP, Brad Garlinghouse, is all the more interesting.…
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Nothing to “Laughing Squid” about!
I couldn’t make it for the event, but seems like I missed a ton of fun. Here’s Jeremiah’s coverage of the party. — Jeremiah reminded me of this month’s “event-de-resistance” – Laughing Squid‘s HUGE 11th Anniversary party this weekend (Sat | 11/18/06) in San Francisco. For those of you, wondering who/what is the Laughing Squid.…
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Are you a Shish-Kebab or Steak Blogger?
He he…Couldn’t resist quoting my friend Jeremiah…Thanks, buddy! Jeremiah and I had a nice discussion earlier today about the different types of blogging and it was a great segue into my woes of not being able to find time to blog. Yes, I was struggling over the last two days to get my stuff in…
Notes from Nothing 