Category: Internet Trends

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 of third-part services and applications built around the service. Twitter… Continue reading The Reason Why Twitter is No Longer an Innovation Machine

How 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 being connected on the Internet. For some people this sounds… Continue reading How My Fridge Manages My Milk Subscription

Navigating 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 is just a sample”). That’s a lot of tools! Granted,… Continue reading Navigating the Marketing Tool Ecosystem

8 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 marketing. Although a very broad term, in marketing, momentum refers… Continue reading 8 Tips for Building Inbound Marketing Momentum in 2014

6 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 help to put things in perspective. Recently, I’ve been thinking… Continue reading 6 Signs We’ve Entered the Post-Social Era

Twitter 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 Commits Suicide -Twipocalypse Now Redux) and with the acquisition and… Continue reading Twitter Changes its Name to TVitter

Create 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 – 1:30 PM) at the law firm of Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein,… Continue reading Create and Deploy Your Own QR Codes

Interview 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 result, I’ve started interviewing authors to learn about how they use… Continue reading Interview with Zombie Author Jonathan Maberry

Will 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 the company raise an additional $1.5 billion. This is a… Continue reading Will Facebook become FaceBank?