Posted in Business Strategy on Mar 31st, 2008
Today we’re announcing a whole bunch of product changes and the launch of our first two partners, technically on schedule in Q1. What it’s taken to get here has been anything but according to plan, though, in a way I think sheds some real light on what it takes to build a successful startup.
Starting a […]
Posted in Content Discovery on Mar 26th, 2008
Collaborative Filtering has become one of the most popular methods for recommending products or content to customers based on past history. It’s popular because it is easy to understand how it works and there are plenty of off the shelf versions of it you can buy or you can build your […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Social Networking on Mar 25th, 2008
It was good to read the press release that Yahoo joined OpenSocial, and that along with Google and MySpace they’ve formed the OpenSocial Foundation. This move should greatly decrease the back-chatter between potentially competing social networking interfaces.
While it’s still a nascent set of standards, OpenSocial has the promise of being a solid foundation upon […]
Posted in Social Networking on Mar 24th, 2008
Now here’s a true milestone, both in the ascent of Twitter, and in the decline of western civilization.
Wow. brave new world.
Posted in Media Delivery, Social Networking on Mar 24th, 2008
Monthly column on Adotas, reflections on Twitter coming off the SXSW experience:
Twitter is for real people.
Twitter is hard to understand for normal people. The service – approaching 1 million users in the neighborhood of its first birthday – is among the most rapidly adopted applications ever. Without hyperbole, I would say that every marketing exec […]
Posted in Business Strategy on Mar 7th, 2008
Sparse blogging lately, this is an intense time in the ‘mine. Team is heads down getting our first couple of partners polished up for launch, meanwhile I’ve been out on the road talking with prospective partners coast to coast. We’ll announce a few more with the launch of the first round, I’m pretty excited about […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2008
It must be conference season as I’m zipping off to another one in a couple weeks. This time it’s the OMMA Global conference in beautiful L.A. on March 17th. I’m not the guy talking, though. This time I’m the one shepherding the conversation.
The panel I’m moderating is called “Widgetizing Behavioral Targeting”. […]
