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Adam Singer recently published a list of inspirational quotes from bloggers, and was humbled to see that I was included. I am certainly in the company of some of the better bloggers and marketing and technology thinkers – a full list is below as well as the presentation. Bloggers quoted: Chris Brogan, Seth Godin, Eric [...]

Stressed by Rick So many conversations have wandered towards the economy, the job market, stress at work, and pending layoffs lately that I asked one of my friends who works in a large media company to anonymously guest post their thoughts. What came out of this exercise is the following post that shows a common [...]

Image via CrunchBase Most people think that a cookie is a delicious treat – not a file on your computer that tracks where you have been, what you are doing, and other attributes about you. Behavior is what you do – not something quantified in a profile. That is why with the recent announcement by [...]

Tonight Boxee, essentially a media browser built for the 10 foot experience, hosted an event in New York at Webster Hall to which they announced support for Pandora to a very large crowd. (disclosure: Union Square Ventures – my employer – has an investment in Boxee) I recently spotted Boxee talking to Pandora, publicly, and [...]

AdAge recently published a story called Six Ways Ad Agencies Are Reeling in New Business Now from Rupal Parekh In it they describe 6 ways you can get new customers (as an ad agency) which really speak volumes about any organization whether you are an ad agency or a simply trying to sell a product. [...]

Internet Explorer 8 officially launched recently and Bradley and Montgomery (BaM), the innovative independent agency behind Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment, released a humorous video created to promote the launch of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8. From the release: Ben Carlson, Chief Strategy Officer of BaM, explains the thinking behind the campaign, “Almost everything you’ve experienced on the [...]

Image by momentitoo via Flickr In a time where everyone is feeling the affects of the financial markets I have found that being personal can go a long way. Even with something like my own blog – providing a personality can mean the difference between thinking about a blog as a company vs. a person. [...]

I just found out Google Chrome will soon be getting extensions and plugins – something that has prevented me from using it on a more regular basis. Matt Cutts shows off a “hello world” Google Chrome extension that overlays the Google logo I wrote about Chrome before and after heavy usage agree that it is [...]

The Economist says that Entrepreneurialism has become cool. An activity that was once regarded as peripheral, perhaps even reprehensible, has become cool, celebrated by politicians and embraced by the rising generation. and this… Today entrepreneurship is very much part of economics. Economists have realised that, in a knowledge-based economy, entrepreneurs play a central role in [...]

What does trail mix have to do with online advertising? More than you might think as explained in the new white paper linked below. Trail Mix by sylvainleprovost Darren Herman, who is a thought leader in the ad planning world, recently published Disintermediation of Online Display Advertising (Link to the PDF) In which he recounts [...]