All The World's A Circ.us

The Irony and The Agony/Ecstasy

June 12, 2007 No comments yet

I pulled the numbers below from MediaPost today as I though that they were highly ironic. The impact of Google Universal Search has resulted in a slight decrease in what their core site used to be, and a tremendous increase in a company they just acquired. The largest shift further positions Google as the place [...]

How To Play Nice And Still Crush Your Enemy

June 12, 2007 No comments yet

How Important Is Playing Nice?
Why did the one time market leader, Apple, lose so much market share that at one time they were no more than an after thought in the worldwide desktop computing industry?
Why, as of March 2007, has Apache served 58% of all web sites worldwide (cite)?
Why is Friendster no longer popular?
What is [...]

All About Adam/North By Northeast

June 11, 2007 1 comment

Those of you that have known me for a while know that I am a musician (listen to one of my songs here), and while I am not a very active musician these days, it is in the blood.
This past weekend my buddy Jay Moonah (of Uncle Seth) invited me to speak on a [...]

Shut Up And Syndicate

June 6, 2007 No comments yet

Digital Content Has No True Home
This is nothing new. Modern consumers want their content when, how and where they want it. This has been proven by the growing adoption of VOD, iPod Video, and RSS (amongst others).
In recent conversations about widgets, I have often taken the stance, "who care, they are widgets, Apple has [...]

June 5, 2007 No comments yet

Good Idea, Questionable Execution
In a unique marketing push Netflix has announced a summer concert series called Netflix Live! On Location. That is the good news.
Who is performing you ask:
The Bacon Brothers
Dennis Quaid and The Sharks
The Bruce Willis Blues Band
Contextually it makes sense but….

Let’s Stick With The Topic Of Music
I love Bob Marley. In [...]

The Worlds Largest Focus Group

June 4, 2007 No comments yet

In the past I have written about new ways to glean consumer insight such as the concept of the "Focus Experience". I suppose that is why this release caught my eye.
The World’s Largest Focus Group

While I am not fully sold on the concept, I am certainly intrigued by Adoodle Inc.’s new platform TVAdsAgain.com. Like [...]

Useful Web 2.0 App Of The Week

June 2, 2007 No comments yet

How many more social bookmarking tools do we need anyhow?
It never ceases to amaze me how many start-ups there are that have very few points of differentiation. Over the last few months I almost feel as if innovation has slowed in the "web 2.0" space. I feel that innovation has shifted to virtual and geo-spatial [...]