The Reason Why Twitter is No Longer an Innovation Machine
I used to write a lot about Twitter for twitip.com. It was a new and exciting form of communication. Twitter was innovative, not only for what it was, but for the way that it encouraged and breed that innovation. At one point, there were hundreds …
Read MoreHow My Fridge Manages My Milk Subscription
A fascinating post on Mashable called, “Advertising’s Next Frontier: The Internet of Everything,” talks about the opportunities and potential for advertisers on the emerging “Internet of Things” (or, IoT). For those who don’t know, the IoT any object from your shirt to your refrigerator all …
Read MoreNavigating the Marketing Tool Ecosystem
Scott Brinker, CTO of Ion Interactive has just released version 3.0 of his “marketing technology landscape supergraphic,” and it’s an eye-popper. In this latest version, Brinker identifies 947 companies who offer various tools to marketers (Brinker even admits that the “graphic is not comprehensive. It …
Read More8 Tips for Building Inbound Marketing Momentum in 2014
For me, 2014 is going to be all about MOMENTUM! And of course, the accomplishments that MOMENTUM brings. I capitalized that word for a reason (but won’t do it again in this post) because just as momentum is critical to physics, it’s also critical to …
Read More6 Signs We’ve Entered the Post-Social Era
People like to label things; tall, short, first, second, Gen X, Gen Y, etc. It gives us a sense of order. The web gets categorized too. We’ve had Web 1.0, Web 2.0, The Semantic Web, Social Media, etc. While the distinctions are somewhat arbitrary, they …
Read MoreTwitter Changes its Name to TVitter
Deal with Comcast Signals Twitter to Become an Essential Utility I used to absolutely love Twitter. I joined in 2007, wrote for Twitip (read my posts here) and even dreamed about tweeting (obsessive, huh?). But then Twitter started screwing over its developer ecosystem (see Twitter …
Read MoreCreate and Deploy Your Own QR Codes
You’ve heard about them. You’ve seen them around. They’re popping up everywhere. QR Codes are the latest rage, but what are they? How do you create them? How do you use them? What are they good for? Join me on Thursday, November 10, 2011 (12:00 – …
Read MoreInterview with Zombie Author Jonathan Maberry
I’ve been doing a lot of fiction writing recently; more than I’ve done in quite a few years. One of the things that’s inspired me, and which I’ve found fascinating, is how social media, tablets, e-readers and e-books are changing the publishing landscape. As a …
Read MoreWill Facebook become FaceBank?
In our Addicted to Social Media podcast #44, I mentioned that Facebook could become FaceBank. In this post I go into more detail on a fascinating possibility. Last week, it was announced that Goldman Sachs will invest $450 million in Facebook in addition to helping …
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