Month: February 2007
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Oscars 2007 | Apple has everyone at “Hello”
The Superbowl for women (well that’s how some advertisers view the Oscars) had 5 technology references in its primetime telecast that just ended a few minutes ago on the West Coast. I thought it’d be interesting to take a quick birds-eye view of the technology that received sponsored and unsponsored recognition at the Oscars 2007:…
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Larry Ellison on Apple: circa 1997
Flashback: In 1997, Apple was mired in questions surrounding it’s future, unsure of its footing within the computer industry and counting down its days of glory. In the words of Sir Wikipedia: On July 9, 1997, Gil Amelio was ousted as CEO of Apple by the board of directors after overseeing a 12-year record-low stock…
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Would Jack Welch have blogged as CEO?
I’d like to think so. Recently, fellow blogger Paul Dunay, stumbled upon super-CEO Jack Welch at a HSM Group conference and asked a couple of questions on our behalf (via Stowe Boyd): On CEO Bloggers writing blogs: CEOs have to be candid with their people; it’s a lot easier to be candid when you’re the…
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Just a few site enhancements
It’s been a while since I’ve analyzed the health of “Marketing Nirvana”, and I thought I’ll provide a quick checklist. Recently, I was pleasantly surprised to see the number of RSS subscribers of the blog shoot up to twice the “normal” average since Google released its Reader numbers. I’ve also added a couple of sidebar…
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Movie Marketing, Moving Forward?
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on another one of my favorite marketing topics – movie marketing. Recently, John Dodd’s from the “Make Marketing History” blog was one of the lucky few to catch an early screening of upcoming movie – Frank Miller’s 300. Commenting on the post-screening Q&A session with “personable, unpretentious and…
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And the award to best use of social media in politics
Scoble’s question a month ago on which of the three democrats’ election campaigns has really ignited conversations, still remains unanswered, so instead I thought I’ll take a stab at finding out how successful their campaigns have been at driving traffic to their website? A cursory glance at all three websites of the leading Democrats —…
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A fellow believer in Netflix’s community!
This post is a great add-on to my earlier post on how only Community can save Netflix given Blockbuster’s increasingly aggressive poaching behavior. It’s always nice to stumble across fellow bloggers who’ve had similar experiences. Here’s Rohit from Influential Interactive Marketing: Ultimately, the thing that is keeping customers loyal for Netflix won’t be the interface…
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The Fall of Scrybe; The Rise of Gmail
Note: The title of my blog post refers to my personal preferences in selecting a calendar/time management tool. As you may have read in my recent posts, I’d been trying the beta version of Scrybe as a calendar tool convinced by it’s very effective 2 minute preview on YouTube. Slowly but surely my interest in…
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It’s Community — First, Next and Last!
Congrats to Noah Kagan for pulling off an eventful community event — Community Next, last weekend at Stanford. Way to go, buddy! So who’s Noah?: I’ve heard a lot about Noah and his enjoyable/informative blog Okdork.com, shared a blogosphere chat with him, and finally had a chance to meet him at my bday party last…
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Another reason to LOVE Google Reader!
Y’all know, I’m a BIG fan of Google Reader and gmail. Here’s a nifty tip that I gleaned from the blog Google Operating System that shows how to (a) pull up your entire list of feeds/labels and (b) search for specific feeds/labels while reading posts in Google Reader. Quite a time saver and a ton…
Notes from Nothing 