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Congrats to Irv Shapiro and his team! I’ve had a close up look at what the ifbyphone is doing and I like what I see. Mike Pruyn at Communicano dropped me this note saying that “Ifbyphone is a tech start-up that specializes in building elegantly simple telephony-related software applications for SMBs. The company has two [...]
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, formerly The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business sent this note earlier this month. I am very pleased to announce a remarkable gift of $300 million to the University of Chicago for the benefit of the Graduate School of Business by University Trustee and alumnus [...]
There has been some discussion today of Facebook’s business model. Forget about monetization, can Facebook survive without any useful customer service improvements? While 98% of the service works great on autopilot, there is absolutely zero customer service for the things where you do need help. I don’t mean bad customer service, I mean there is absolutely [...]
Estimates of damage from Hurricane Ike and the reported death toll continue to rise far beyond what would be expected from the last Saffir-Simpson Scale reading of “a category 2 hurricane.” Hurricane Ike’s larger than category 2 impact suggests need to modify Saffir-Simpson Scale hurricane measurement and communication metrics. It is heartbreaking to see and hear [...]
Wow!!! Go Cubs!!! Magic number is now 7!!! ---Related Articles at Discussing Internet Marketing Management Strategy:Cubs Rainout PleasureChicago Cubs Win National League Central Division 2007Dusty Baker No Longer Cubs Manager
As an alumnus of DePaul University and a member of DePaul’s New Venture Challenge judging team since inception, I’m pleased to see this ranking!!! However, high rankings on entrepreneurship education alone is not sufficient, the next steps are: 1) To build a transparent, quick and efficient marketplace for entrepreneurs, experienced and passionate management teams and startup capital. 2) [...]
Check this out! Facebook is not consistently ranking #1 for the navigational search “Facebook” on Google. While it’s not happening on every Google data center, I’m sure that based on past posts, Danny Sullivan might find this interesting and worth monitoring. So this could mean one of a few things are the culprit here… 1. Barack Obama [...]
There is currently a crisis emerging in mainstream media. It is called, we don’t check the facts or seek quotes from other parties in the know on a subject to see if it is correct or not before we publish. Don’t get me wrong, Sarah Halzack’s article, “Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere” is actually filled [...]
For those in attendance at SES San Jose and SEOmoz PRO Training this week, does anyone know anyone who has done any detailed testing on optimizing Facebook for people doing internal searches on Facebook? Please feel free to comment or reply if you have figured this arena out yet. As Facebook continues to grow in usage [...]
I unfortunately arrived towards the end of Greg Jarboe’s speech and the next two speakers didn’t say anything that I hadn’t already stated in my Youtube Video Optimization blog post form earlier this year. I’d strongly urge anyone who attended this session to take a look at this posting. ---Related Articles at Discussing Internet Marketing Management [...]
I had a flawless trip in from Chicago on Southwest Airlines (with a bunch of people with Dell computers with flaws - mostly dvd and hinge problems) and am here staying with my good friend David Temple during Search Engine Strategies San Jose. It’s a kinda different show this year in both the crowd and some [...]
Last week, Andy Abramson from Communicano invited me to an intimate breakfast that included developers from multiple countries, executives from ifbyphone (and fonolo) and venture capitalists. Wonderful food, content and people made for an outstanding conversation! During Cluecon, I was able to drop in and catch Irv Shaprio’s speech, what follows are my live blogging notes [...]
Everyone knows that Digg users are highly social and many are familiar with the traditional ranking of popular posts and other data that is available on digganalytics.com (data used in this post is as of 8/3/2008). Just for fun, I decided to toss this data into a spreadsheet and splice and dice it a bit [...]
Biz Stone got this directionally correct, it is just not in a format that is usable in real time, yet… If I were the lead product manager at Twitter, I’d be setting up two primary screens: 1) Keywords across the entire network overall which toggle switches for the frequency compared to normal (it would be cool if [...]
Every once in a while Robert Scoble puts down the camera and writes an amazingly thought provoking blog post. Not a perfect post, but one that makes you think about the state of things. Scoble’s comparison of certain VCs to big companies struck a chord with me due a speech I’m working on. I’d like [...]
A few weeks ago I was sent a Nokia N81 8GB mobile phone. This post will contrast it with Nokia N73 it replaced. Image by tnkgrl via Flickr Positives of the Nokia N81 8GB: - The first thing you notice is new radically different navigation on N-series phones. The green and red call and hang up buttons are on [...]
OK, Kara Swisher started this discussion(I’m not saying it’s going to happen), but I question her fundamental assertion that Jerry Yang is the person calling the shots. The memo regarding Jeff Weiner’s departure came from Sue as does most of the primary communication messaging. Many think Sue is the one that is in charge for [...]
The following is my live and raw blogging of Peeter Motskula’s from Skype’s session: Skype: Enabling Conversations If you put all of the time spent talking on Skype put end to end you would end up going back to the start of human species. Skype is a thriving ecosystem 190+ hardware devices, 10,000 developers, partnership with world class [...]
The following is my live and raw blogging of Adam Trachtenberg’s session: New Ebay API Calls released today - most watched items - deals - related category items - top-selling products This uses eBay’s New Services Framework! This is an API upgrade… Cross Merchandising - sell products using the brand - promote contextually relevant market Merchandising in Action at Ebay.com - Buyer behavior, interests are [...]
A question to add to all of these posts asking Twitter questions: Will the AIM interface ever be fixed? I found posting from IM to be the easiest and fastest method, it’s been broken (or blocked by AIM?) for months dating back to 2007. What is the status of the Twitter AIM interface? Anybody? ---Related Articles at Discussing [...]
Wow! That was tiring, I stepped on the L at 7:30AM and didn’t get home until 1:30AM the next morning! 18 hours of pure madness! Most people noticed the great speeches by Gary Vee from Wine Library TV and Dick Costolo (aka ask the wizard) and others. But what I really appreciated was the other [...]
Dick Costolo gave a really raw, heartfelt talk about Feedburner, venture capital fund raising and venture capital. I won’t dwell on it here, but even though I’ve never worked directly on anything with Dick, we’ve had an amazing exchange of ideas and conversation over the years. Someday I hope I can take that relationship to [...]
The following is a brief summary of the session that Former Feedburner folks Matt Shobe and John Zeratsky (I need to spend some time with that guy sometime) put on at TECH cocktail Conference 08. Without further delay, here’s their tips on designing with users in mind! Be Yourself – informal, fun Be Fast – the perceived time when [...]
TECH cocktail CONFERENCE 08 in Chicago got started with Mike Domek, after which the guys from Threadless gave a simple and fun session with some practical insight… Problems Scaling…printers, vendors, etc Inventory is hard…. The Internet is Serious Business Dealing with problems that we are not prepared to deal with… (can be an advantage too) Advantages Our Users - Do they care? Do [...]
Robert Scoble is always advocating this practice… The effectiveness hits home when you see it happen to someone you know who is less famous (but no less remarkable)… Congrats, Dan! See you soon. ---Related Articles at Discussing Internet Marketing Management Strategy:Flickr to Live on, Yahoo! Photos to be Shut DownYahoo! Leveraging Flickr Assets WiselyWouldn’t ATT Acquire Yahoo! Instead [...]
During my recent Dell communications, I performed a Google blog search on - Dell Inspiron 1505 hinges Please focus on the second item: At the time that entry was still in Google blog search, it reached to a dead link. Why is Dell censoring and deleting information about these Inspiron line issues? Do they have something to [...]
Bill Slawski wrote up a nice review of the Google paper on mobile search…definitely good analysis to a nice research piece on the most perplexing bottleneck - mobile data input. It’s my expectation that interest in innovation in the text input, voice input or even new forms of shortcuts will accelerate in the near future as [...]
Good luck to him, I’d like to think that this might change the current dynamics I’ve recently laid out, but based on his background, I won’t get my hopes up…but oh my this AP story certainly raises questions about why Dell is nickel and diming customers if they can allocate this signing bonus and stock allocation…imagine [...]
I’ll keep this short. It’s not about me, it’s about *you*, my friends around the world who create a business network that empower me to reach people and accomplish things that I could never do all on my own. To all of you who practice the words below, I love you and thank you for [...]
Dell has not fixed the design flaws and workmanship quality issues of my poorly built laptop Insiron 1505. They instead have chosen to play word games like they have with thousands other victims of Dell Inspiron purchases. Just Wednesday night I met two more Dell Inspiron quality victims when attending a local meetup group on a different [...]
After way too many emails, I sent my unreliable Dell Inspiron laptop back to Dell this week. It has had the following problems: slow boot times, frequent blue screens, unreliablity connecting to the Internet due to a flaky Internet card, weak and broken hinges due to a poor design in fact, the Inspiron line got rid of this [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — May 13, 2008 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the NASDAQ OMX 21st Investor Program in London. The session is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time / 6:45 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, May 20, 2008. To access the [...]
This year the Global Food and Style Expo did not have the FMI show co-located along with the All Things Organic, Fancy Food Show and the U.S. Food Export Showcase so it was a slightly smaller show with less foot traffic. But it was filled with innovative products and amazing entrepreneurial stories! it’s a shame [...]
I got a call from Liz Strauss to claim my apartment’s extra space a day or two before the event. It was determined that Andrew Dubber would be my house guest during SOBcon08. Andrew, pictured on the left below, has a personal blog and his primary blog, New Music Strategies. Andrew was a fascinating guest! He [...]
Just saw Eco-Safe installed on Chris Brogan’s blog. It looked super cool and was excited to try it so I emailed a file to my self. I was massively disappointed by what followed… A giant and unnecessary pdf file weighing in at a hefty half a megabyte arrived in my mailbox. Giant pdf files are [...]
Go read it! Wow…interesting comments over there for sure… ---Related Articles at Discussing Internet Marketing Management Strategy:SES Chicago 2006 - Day 1 - Ads in a Quality Score WorldGoogle’s Quality of Landing Page Changes - A Closer LookGoogle KeyWord Sandbox is Now Google Keyword External
You remember how much fun it was to be at the successful and outstanding blogger conference last year…don’t you? I was sitting next to Mike Sansone all day and I learned a ton about community! I got a little tip from Robyn Tippins who I’d known for years online and had never met in person! I [...]
ad:tech announced the winners of the of the 11th annual ad:tech awards. Congrats to all of the successful winners! The 2008 Industry Achievers: Pete Blackshaw (Executive VP, Digital Strategic Services, Nielsen Online) has been an industry leader since co-leading p&g’s interactive marketing efforts. He founded PlanetFeedback.com, coined the term “consumer-generated media,” and co-founded the [...]
Before I post about Jon’s interesting session, I’ll note that it’s important that marketers considering using this channel read my post on YouTube Video Optimization as there are many highly unique search engine optimization techniques that can improve your success in this area. Jon Kaplan’s talk starts here: Youtube was founded at a dinner party in [...]
Mobile phone penetration in the US is now 95%+ and data plan penetration is now 50%+ Modalities: Usage Capable phones Texting 50% 100% Mobile Browser, 25% >60% Downloadable Application 17% >60% Application download [...]
If you’ve got some free time and some sales skills, Max’s post shows you a long-term alternative to Adsense. Most people don’t have the time or the skills to do the direct selling he suggests, but I love the creativity and analysis of the facts. Top notch. Bravo! His post gives an all too rare but [...]
Wow, we turn off some lights for an hour in some giant empty office buildings in downtown Chicago (which should be the case every night) and people lose their minds. If people were truly energy conscious, wouldn’t they want these lights to be off in these empty buildings every night, all night? Wouldn’t that do something [...]
The following are high level notes of Tom Churchwell’s speech discussing venture capital at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB). This talk took place in Chicago on January 22, 2008. I’m posting it today in celebration of this week’s Midwest Venture Summit. Typical Fund Structure - Management Fee 2.5% of committed capital - Carried [...]
Yahoo Buzz had this interesting tidbit… What was Mary Ann thinking? Though Spitzer rode roughshod over most of the week’s news, a few other stories still managed to slip to the top of Buzz. One of them was a Yahoo! News article on Dawn Wells, the actress best known for her portrayal of [...]
Anil Dash has put up quite an intriguing post arguing the case. Matt Mullenweg are you listening? I’m gonna add a few more reasons to his list of reasons why it would be wise to do so, but before I do that I thought I’d tell Anil why I’m not doing that…YET… 1) I don’t know of [...]
Check it out! There is a Google Website Optimizer seminar with Bryan Eisenberg on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 9:00AM Pacific Time is a great opportunity to try it out and learn about the Google Website Optimizer! It’s also useful in Wordpress, if you haven’t downloaded the Google Website Optimizer for WordPress, now might be [...]
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Tim Armstrong, President, Advertising & Commerce, North America, and David Eun, Vice President, Content Partnerships, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference in Palm Beach, FL. The session is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time / 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, March [...]
Apologies for the lack of posts during the conference. My Dell Inspiron, as well as several other people’s, could not connect to the Affiliate Summit Internet signals. This is Dell’s fault, not Affiliate Summit’s. On that note, Dell needs to finally take responsibility for the many flawed drivers and poorly designed hinges in these machines [...]
You’ll see me at Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas next week, I will look like that guy in the picture above. I’ll be at the Affilliatebash for sure, if you have other events you’d like me to attend, please drop me an email. See you at the show! ---Related Articles at Discussing Internet Marketing Management [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — February 21, 2008 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in Dana Point, CA. The session is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time / 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, March 3, 2008. To access the live [...]
It appears that Google is starting to prepare for the inevitable acceleration of pre-IPO employee departures and exodus as it has posted the role of Alumni Relations Program Manager. UPDATE: While I at first thought this was creating an employee alumni program from my quick read, it’s actually to create relationships with university alumni [...]
As part of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, they are holding a Venture Capital Speed Dating event and mixer. This event looks like so much fun, I wish we had casual events like this here in Chicago, especially since Stanford encourages lifetime social interaction with the community and properly sees it’s role as larger than [...]
Rand put together a very thought provoking piece on the threats Google faces. Since he asked for feedback on the article about other potential threats, I’ll say his list is a fine starting point, then I’ll add these: The first one I’ll call 1b - A privacy breach event at Google (think search history in a court [...]
He’s right that having a distinct name online can be extremely helpful. It has plenty of search engine results implications. Not enough people think about this issue when naming a company or product. This is a really smart tip. ---Related Articles at Discussing Internet Marketing Management Strategy:My friend Neil PatelLooking Forward to Barcamp Chicago 2008New York Times [...]
Lee Odden has posted the results of his online marketing survey. The blog result is likely directionally correct, but is likely skewed on the high side a bit due to the survey being on a blog. Go figure. Blogging (25%) Search engine optimization (14%) Email marketing (12%) Pay per click (8%) Blogger relations (6%) Online public relations (5%) Viral marketing [...]
I once again find myself here in Chicago instead of in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. The conference tag appears to be MWC08. I must make it to this event someday as I must experience the crush of 100,000 attendees. ---Related Articles at Discussing Internet Marketing Management Strategy:3GSM World Congress Barcelona - Starts NowAlvin Wang Graylin, [...]
The Chicago Tribune has a nice user generated content piece where they allow readers to input pothole locations. It is an open thread that simply says: “Tell us: Where are the worst potholes? Potholes seem to be everywhere this winter, but who has the worst — the city or suburbs? Tell us where you’ve seen [...]
Robert Peck and his research team at Bear Stearns has been doing an amazing job of explaining, tracking arcane information and sending out brief snippets regarding the ongoing FCC mobile spectrum auction process. The volume of information they are tracking is both significant and lacks immediate transparency as the bidders are not immediately named. This morning [...]
The New York Times has an article on how the potential sale of Yahoo! to Microsoft could be bad for minnows, i.e. small Silicon Valley companies looking to be acquired. I think this is a short sighted viewpoint. In the late 1990’s dot.com era, the web was slanted too much towards wall street involvement that led [...]
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