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Blame Second Life/I Am Getting Some Focus

August 10, 2007 1 comment

…as if it were Linden Labs fault that hundreds of marketers have thoughtlessly followed the hype like lemmings. If you launch a television campaign with no strategy, it will suck, why would you think you can launch a Second Life campaign and have it magically work wonders?

Marketers who have “failed” and now are complaining about [...]

What Is Content and Does Google Have Any?

August 9, 2007 1 comment

How exactly does one go about defining what content is?
They look at wikipedia of course!

That which is contained.
Published information and experiences such as many novels, movies, music, game, webpages, presentations, organized data, etc.
The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a [...]

Throw out your iPhone, Get Yourself A GPhone

August 8, 2007 No comments yet

I cannot wait to see how this one plays out. I would think the better strategy would be for Google to work with Apple, but I have been wrong in the past (once)

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

Google to unveil phone of its own by next year

Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, recently [...]

Misleading Information About New Media Used To Help Pay For Fogies’ Martini Lunches (Part 2)

August 8, 2007 No comments yet

There has been some great commentary today:
Frank Shaw:

People spend time where they receive value, plain and simple. This could be knowledge, it could be entertainment, it could be social, it could be a combination of all of the above. If time spent watching TV dropped, it’s because the perceived value, either relative or real, of [...]

Misleading Information About New Media Used To Help Pay For Fogies’ Martini Lunches

August 8, 2007 5 comments

I just read an article in MediaPost entitled, “Time Spent With Media Falters, Digital Spawns Shorter Attention Spans”  that covers a study by Veronis Suhler Stevenson’s Communications.
My first question is, who commissioned this report?
Highlights
I do not feel like paying two grand for this report so I am going to have to comment on MediaPost’s extractions. [...]

We Just Can’t Get Enough Mobile This Summer at A MediaCirc.Us

August 7, 2007 No comments yet

Have I Been Fixated On Mobile Lately?
I ran my first mobile campaign in the early part pf 2006 for the New York Times and saw mediocre results (the campaign was not a failure by the standards of someone who values return on experimentation, but in terms of direct response, it was not great). [...]

Nokia and Microsoft Play Nice With Mobile

August 6, 2007 No comments yet

Personal note to readers:
While I do not consider myself a technologist, technology plays an extremely important role in my job, as well my day to day activities (I suppose the latter is true for most of us).
I do not necessarily seek out technological movements in order to write about them on my Blog; however there [...]

Can Amie St. Help Reinvent The Music Industry?

August 6, 2007 No comments yet

Head Over To Tech Crunch for the full write up on Amie St.’s recent round of funding by Amazon.

clipped from amiestreet.com

clipped from amiestreet.com

We know music is social, and finding new music needs to be fun. Music discovery is best served by communication between people, so we reward fans when they recommend [...]

A Post For One Of My Clients Dealing With A Topic We Recently Spoke About

August 3, 2007 No comments yet

Of course I will not say who the client is, but I will alert them to this post and subsequently the article (and they may also not know about Clipmarks, so it is a win-win-win) I figured that recommending an article via blog post would be an interesting way to go about doing things.

For more [...]

Search 2.0 and Social Networking 2.0? (I have had enough 2.0!)

August 3, 2007 No comments yet

I think that the world is getting quite sick of products positioning themselves within the realm of meaningless new revision numbers.
In two press releases I read this morning the products I am about to talk about did just that.
Search 2.0?
On first glance this is no more than a Meta search engine with a slick interface. [...]