January 2010
78 posts
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger →
Link: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/… Boy, you folks are really fixing this guy up. He was 91 years old, for crying out loud. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or…
iSandwich →
Mmm. This is the kind of sandwich technology I can get really excited about. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: iSandwich 4G! Via The Daily What
Pikmin Certainly Seemed Less Creepy Before →
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Interactive map of Holden Caulfield’s New York →
Interactive map of Holden Caulfield’s New York
Eric Schmidt's second thoughts →
I admit to having a bit of a personal interest in this, but I’ve been fascinated to watch how the thinking of Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has evolved over the past few years on the question of the…
iPad Interrogation →
Check out this worthwhile read from my friend/colleague Marci Ikeler on the iPad’s potential - http://bit.ly/b6DSxx Permalink | Leave a comment »
20 Things Already Known About the Apple Tablet... →
Without any mention of hardware or software, The Doghouse Diaries pretty much nails a list of what we can expect from the tablet. Or rather, how we’re all going to react to it. Look out for…
TV watching and education "almost perfectly... →
How much TV do you watch? What’s the highest level of educational level you’ve attained? According to data gathered by the web site hunch, these two aspects of your life are “almost perfectly…
Retro Virus →
The Tweet Of The Deal →
Do people want a “conversation” with brands or do they want deals? The answer to that question was one of the most talked-about parts of our FEED report. This week eMarketer and Marketing Sherpa…
The Maturation of Social Media ROI →
Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks, and author of the upcoming book, Engage. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.
The debate over measuring…
GreeNoodle →
GreeNoodle, a new instant noodle, gets a dose of added nutrition from moroheiya (aka mallow and mulukhiyah). First cultivated in Egypt and gaining popularity in Japan, the ancient…
4 Tech Trends You Must Understand to be an... →
The days of SEO as the primary traffic driver to your website are over. Don’t get us wrong, organic search engine optimization isn’t about to disappear as a key traffic driver. And thankfully,…
GreeNoodle →
GreeNoodle, a new instant noodle, gets a dose of added nutrition from moroheiya (aka mallow and mulukhiyah). First cultivated in Egypt and gaining popularity in Japan, the ancient…
Client: “I have a great idea, and I’d like to... →
Client: “I have a great idea, and I’d like to bring you on board as a partner.”
Me: “Go on..”
Client: “It’s great. I want to recreate Google, but make it better.”
Me: “How?”
Client: “Well…
Video: Jared Spool “What Makes Design Intuitive?” →
Using examples of web sites, applications, devices, and more, guest lecturer Jared Spool tackles factors that contribute to counter-intuitive design, and narrows down when design is intuitive:
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Using Your Mobile Phone as a Proximity Sensor →
Earlier today we noted that the era of location-as-platform has arrived in 2010, care of mobile services such as Foursquare and Brightkite.
In the latest in our series exploring the …
Data Monday: American Teens, Media, & Devices →
The current generation of teenage Americans is growing up with the Internet and media devices galore. As you might expect, they use both -a lot!
Young Americans aged 8 to 18 spend more than 7.5…
Data Monday: American Teens, Media, & Devices →
The current generation of teenage Americans is growing up with the Internet and media devices galore. As you might expect, they use both -a lot!
Young Americans aged 8 to 18 spend more than 7.5…
Conan O'Brien Farewell Speech →
What a class act. I’ll admit it - it made me a little misty eyed. I wish nothing but success to this great entertainer. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
Lady Gaga Cookies →
Link: http://fashionindie.com/random-lady-g… There are not enough sprinkles in the Western Hemisphere to appropriately adorn these cookies. Contribute: Add an image, link, video…
A Realtime Recreation of the Plane Crash in Lost... →
A detail-oriented fan has recreated all the events surrounding the plane crash that inaugurated the hallucinatory castaway series Lost. And they’ve done it 24-style, with those ticking…
The 5 Reasons You're Failing In Social Media →
1. You really don’t want to engage directly with customers, employees, etc.—you just want them to hear what you have to say.
2. You’re not ready to create new roles, update process, re-distribute…
Do Young People Have a Transparency Mindset by... →
I’m sitting in a train car on my way from client meetings in Gothenburg. In front of me are four ladies gossiping away about all kinds of things. One of the topics is the annoying and superficial…
Hillary Clinton Extends Foreign Policy To The... →
In a defining speech today on Internet Freedom, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton extended foreign policy to the Internet, calling it a “global networked commons.” Her speech harked back to…
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"What would happen if the internet was full?" →
“What would happen if the internet was full?”
Pic: The greatest programming tip ever written /... →
Stock and flow →
Robin Sloan writes about stock and flow as “the master metaphor for media today”. Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind…
The new social technographics ladder →
Forrester have just released a new version of their famous Social Technographics ladder, which looks at how people use social media:
As you can see it now includes ‘Conversationalists’:
The Snoop Dogg/Charles Barkley Black Off →
In the interest of staying Late Night neutral, please allow me to update you on the haps at Lopez Tonight , where Snoop and Sir Charles submitted to DNA tests in order to determine who’s…
Civilizations Wars (Game Battle) →
In Civilizations Wars, your role as the supreme ruler of a civilization is to manage your population and take control of the map while the enemy civilization attempts to do the same. …
Infographic of the Day: China's Censors Hate Free... →
What, exactly, was Google previously censoring in China?
Yesterday, Google announced that it won’t do the Chinese government’s bidding anymore, and will de-censor its search results on…
"I have printed it out, but the animated GIF is... →
“I have printed it out, but the animated GIF is not moving?”
Dispelling the Youth Myth – Five Useful Facebook... →
Facebook is huge. Depending on the day, it is the most visited site in the US (an accomplishment that Facebook recently achieved for the first time during Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and…
Donut Marketing →
I was obviously barking up the wrong tree with social influence marketing. The future of marketing is all about Donut Marketing! More seriously speaking, there is no question that when crafting a…
Where and when to reply online →
The internet is filled with opinions and marketing. Well, opinions, marketing and porn, if you want to be exact, but those three cover pretty much everything!
Many companies would much rather…
conference attendee field notes / what consumes... →
conference attendee field notes / what consumes me, bud caddell
In the Gutter →
This picture is courtesy of a great article in Wired UK http://bit.ly/5xWxrn
I love Contagious magazine but it’s got be one of the most expensive magazines out there and…
Twitter and Foursquare Become the New Loyalty... →
Customer loyalty programs are stuck in the dark ages, especially as they pertain to social media. However, Tasti D-Lite, the frozen dessert chain popular in New York, is taking one…
10 Musts for Marketing to Women on Facebook →
Brette Borow is the President and Founder of Girls Guide To, the “ladies only” guide to life, and spends most of her days engaging with the community’s over 140,000 members.
There…
Five success factors for branded online... →
Most major brands are hip to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. And many have built up an impressive presence on the web’s most popular social hangouts.
But some of the more adventurous brands have…
Hiroshige Print - Capturing social media →
I love this print by Utagawa Hiroshige updated for our times and our social media context. Not surprisingly,of all those comments and tweets I can’t help but wonder which have a higher…
Social media you can drink. But will you want to? →
In the all-encompassing world of social media, a growing number of brands are turning to consumers to help design new products. And for good reason: the internet and social media have given…
Websites Described As Food →
Here is an entire sheet full of food metaphors rendered in ink. BuzzFeed is the fried Twinkie to The Frisky’s appletini, which may be about right. Contribute: Add an image, link, video…
It's not what you know →
“It’s not what you know,” writes Google’s Marissa Mayer, “it’s what you can find out.” That’s as succinct a statement of Google’s intellectual ethic as I’ve come across. Forget “I think, therefore I…
New Etre Gloves →
In 2008 I wrote about a bunch of gloves that would not only keep you warm, but also allow you to use your iPhone at the same time. Now one of these companies, Etre, has upgraded their…
It Only Works If They Do Something →
A long, long time ago, in 2004 in fact, I [co]wrote an article for the Financial Times about ‘brandals’ who had been defacing ads for the then newly minted iPod, complaining about the…
Forrester’s 2010 Customer Experience Rankings →
Let me start by saying congratulations to the company that received the #1 ranking in Forrester’s 2010 Customer Experience Index (CxPi)…
Forrester’s 2010 Customer Experience Index
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The 2010 Mobile Outlook from Digital Hollywood at... →
Image by sam_churchill via Flickr
While at the Consumer Electronics Show, I moderated a panel at Digital Hollywood on “Mobile Commerce and Content: The Mobile Web, Texting,…