December 2009
3 posts
3 Steps to Mining the Social-Mobile-Realtime...
This week Google has put real time front and center. And for those of us reading the Google tea leaves, mobile and social are clearly important parts of their mix for 2010.
How can you take advantage of what Fred Wilson call the “megatrend” Golden Triangle of social, mobile and realtime in 2010? Here are three steps you can take to ensure you get your share of this emerging mother...
Location Optional
New media, like so many things in life, is growing in uneven fits and starts. In an agile world, distinguishing among vital features, nice-to-have’s and fads that will soon fade is crucial.
It’s always easy in retrospect to spot the also-ran’s. After a flurry of corporate interest in Second Life last year, Ian Lamont recently wrote about creepy, abandoned Second Life sites:...
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Advertising is Good (and Bad) ... But not Evil
Pete Cashmore posted “Twitter Ads Are Evil: Here’s Why” on Mashable Nov 29. The post earned a large amount of notice on Twitter. Pete is one of my favorite writers, and I was interested in his opinion on this hot topic. I found I agree with Pete on many of his points. But I disagree with his overall take. First the agreements:
1) I agree with Pete that “interruption...