PR 2.0 (Free subscription) | yesterday
I recently visited good friend Robert Scoble, his lovely wife Maryam and their family in Half Moon Bay. It was an overdue trip, one without an agenda. It was a fleeting opportunity to catch up, talk a bit about the latest book, and also an excuse to have a fireside chat, literally, on the grounds [...]
TJ's Weblog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
When you're working to keep a startup company alive, bad ideas have bigger conquences. With that in mind, I thought this article by Robert Scoble had some very helpful tips for startups. It's a list of things startup commonly do wrong. One example...They spend money on the wrong things. I’ve been in more than one startup that had bad chairs and small screens for their engineers but they had an...
TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
So it's been nearly 10 days since Foursquare launched its social mobile game 'ground assault' into 50 more cities, including a bunch of European ones. But what I'd like to know is who's actually using it here in Europe? Because, you see, Europeans are already quite well served by location based mobile applications like Qype , the various localised versions of Yelp, and other startups like Rummble...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The Gillmor Gang convened Wednesday to ponder the last several weeks of events loosely contained in a discussion of the next generation Web operating system. Three major announcements set the table for this Thanksgiving edition: Google's ChromeOS, Microsoft's Silverlight 4, and salesforce's Chatter collaboration platform. The last might be pigeonholed as enterprise Twitter, but Marc Benioff's position...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The United States, starting tomorrow, will be spending the next four days celebrating the Holiday of the Big After Turkey Dinner Snooze. Which means that things will probably be pretty quiet on the tech front when it comes to things to write about (as long as Robert Scoble can keep quiet for the next few [...]
Global Neighbourhoods (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
[Mama Lucy Thornton and some Tweetsgiving recipients. Photo by Tim Llewellyn] Almost any author will tell you the same thing. There are parts to their books that become part of them. There are moments we write about, which change the paths we take in life. When I was writing Naked Conversations, it was the realization that blogs were part of something much bigger than another business marketing tool....
GeekMedia (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Couldn't resist this ( @scobleizer 's idea i think). So Windows 7 is apparently the business . Everything that Vista wasn't. But that OS X was....
Marketing Profs Daily Fix (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
If you go to Robert Scoble's blog , to the right you'll see a widget he has added that streams tweets from people on his Twitter lists. And in a round-about way, this is one of the reasons why I am spending less time on Twitter these days. As many people do, I use Twitter primarily as a tool to connect with other people. Now for the most part, I'd always had some so-called unwritten rules about my...
CloudAve (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Wow, I’m sensing another TechMeme Storm rising (and a certain analyst would call it a circle j***, but that’s another matter). Robert Scoble says he was wrong when he said In 2006 he wouldn’t use any news aggregator or feeds that aren’t full text . I think the Scobleizer is wrong now that he says he was wrong. :-) His key argument is that his reading habits changed, he relies...
Switched (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
As part of the latest trend in online advertising, ad companies are paying normal people to pimp companies or products to their online friends or followers. According to the New York Times , companies think that consumers will be more likely to trust the opinions of their Facebook friends than they are a faceless commercial -- even if those "opinions" are formed with the promise of financial...
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Robert Scoble lays out a compelling case for Twitter ads.
CloudAve (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I’m generally not tracking the “post ads to your social networks” movement, be it sponsored blog posts or tweeting ads to your followers on Twitter. There is one aspect to it that I think is most important: disclosure. Robert Scoble has a post up, More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising , where he notes that he unfollowed people on Twitter who were running ads: So, I unfollowed and...
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Just saw this IKEA campaign using Facebook. It's certainly different. Robert Scoble posted it on Friendfeed. Which happens to have been bought by Facebook.
CloudAve (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The topic of whether in-stream advertising has heated up. I just read well written pieces on the topic by Ross Kimbarovsky , Robert Scoble , Paul Carr and the NY Times . I myself recently covered the topic when I spoke about why GRP Partners invested in Ad.ly . Let me lay out my defense of In-Stream Advertising because I believe the topic is really important. 1. People feel angst about advertising...
Appulo.us Newest Apps & Updates (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
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