April 30th 2009
Note to self: five things not to do on social media. Never make a public Facebook group called: “Make-it-Rain Foundation for Underprivileged Hoes,“ especially if you’re a cop in DC. Don’t Twitter plans for a massacre. Twitter crosses state lines, as does the FBI. Don’t post collections notices on people’s kids’ MySpace pages, even if […]
April 29th 2009
We’ve previously blogged about crime on Craigslist. This post is about something different: retribution. Allow me to confirm what you may already know: When newspapers consider what’s happened to their business model and who is responsible, the first name that comes to mind is often Craigslist. Craigslist Decimated Print Budgets by Giving Away Classifieds Newspapers used […]
April 27th 2009
I’m thrilled to be heading to Chicago in June speak at the Business Marketing Association’s Annual Meeting. As you can see, the conference theme is to un-learn and empower brands to better adapt to the dramatically changing world of B-to-B marketing. The “dynamic personalization” dream team Last fall I was part of a really fun […]
April 17th 2009
I spent a few days this week at the Rhode Island School of Design discussing mobile design. Naturally, when I picked up the news, it seemed to be bursting with stories about mobile. Marketing VOX is reporting on AT&T research showing that 49 percent of men like watching live sports on mobile devices. As web […]
April 16th 2009
Disruption of Technology = Growth of Journalism I’m holding something cool in my hands this morning: the first weekly edition of The Christian Science Monitor. They publish the news online daily, free for all, and print a weekly review with some print-only content just for subscribers. In it you’ll find an editorial about the return […]
April 14th 2009
According to Canada’s last census, there are more than 7.5 million residents in Quebec. Perhaps some of them would like to do business with you. But there’s a hurdle. The French language. In 1977, the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec adopted the Charter of the French Language. In short, it sets a rule […]
April 13th 2009
While domain squatting is on the increase, so is enforcement. Brands are using research to determine which variants of their domains merit defensive registration, and since all variants can be predicted, they are invoking litigation and arbitration to take control of infringing marks. Lego already owns 450 domain names, and they’ve registered their mark in […]
April 8th 2009
A widely reported piece of research from Australian researcher Dr. David Coker suggests people who check social media websites periodically are more productive than those who don’t. Really? What’s next, the salubrious effects of online porn? “People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration,” Coker said. “Short and unobtrusive breaks, […]
April 3rd 2009
Do you know what the domain is for Google Books? Those who’d guess the obvious, www.GoogleBooks.com, would unfortunately be wrong. Instead of finding the real Google Books, they’d arrive at a domain squatter selling tools for joining them in that business and using a Google’s good name in their domain to take revenue from Adwords and […]
April 1st 2009
Can you separate the wheat of fact from the chaff of April First hokum? Some of these are true but foolish stories, and thank goodness others are pure fiction from the twisted minds of our writers. Stimulus Package Spends Millions on Microsoft Office With $20 billion in the bank, one would think that Microsoft could […]
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