Posted in Business Strategy on Nov 27th, 2007
Boy, as a long time mobile guy it’s hard to overstate the significance of the highest quality and most closed US wireless carrier deciding to open up access to their network in this way:
There is a lot of fine print, but the essence appears to be that Verizon will offer two flavors of service: its […]
Posted in Random Thoughts on Nov 26th, 2007
Every so often a bunch of stuff converges and feels like divine inspiration. Over the last week, three different events have come together synergistically for me. Divine? Maybe not. But inspiration – definitely!
The first was seeing the movie Gone Baby Gone. It was filmed in my old neighborhood. Dorchester, pronounced Dahchestah if you live there. […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Human Factors, Media Delivery on Nov 21st, 2007
Facebook’s new ad targeting scheme is so interesting because it begins to enable advertisers to target individuals again, instead of behavior. In a way it brings advertising full circle…
This is how the world used to work – If you were Acme Floor Wax you ran a full page bleed in Ladies Home Journal because you […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Content Discovery, Media Delivery on Nov 21st, 2007
Somebody sent me this, and it’s incredible.
The very essence of what matchmine’s about is being able to find stuff like this (for me anyway) without needing to sift through the mountain or crap everybody else likes.
As problems go, a nice way to spend your time.
Posted in Human Factors, Semantic Web on Nov 21st, 2007
I was supposed to meet with Andrew Keen last week, and before we spoke Mr. Keen asked that I read his book. No problem, it’s hardly Shogun, and the subject matter is pretty interesting.
The essential idea: The democratization of creativity is harmful to our culture, our society, and our economy. In essence, Web 2.0 […]
Posted in Random Thoughts on Nov 16th, 2007
Every once in a while during this journey something causes me to take a breath and reflect on how far we’ve come in such a short time. The most recent of these moments was in a meeting yesterday. There I was, listening to Mike explain something important about metrics, and behind him was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2007
It’s been more than five years since the film Minority Report was released. Funny thing is, when I think of the Spielberg directed, Cruise starring movie, one thing that always comes to mind is the advertising. From Gap to Guinness, the film features an abundance of what interactive advertising might be like in the year […]
Posted in Business Strategy on Nov 8th, 2007
Lots going on right now at the intersection of facebook targeting capabilities and “do not track” initiative from Tacoda. Marta Kagan does a nice job expressing how many people feel about all this, including me.
The pressing question is what do do about it.
I see 3 strategies:
Do nothing. Accept that privacy is an illusion, or at […]
