How technology enables companies to connect with customers
Yahoo! has a very prominent billboard on highway 80 in San Francisco, (streetview map) right before you cross over the bay bridge (close to the freeway collapse of the Loma Prieta earthquake). When I go to tech events in the city, I almost always see … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings: The Yahoo! Billboard
Dave McClure (who helps teach the Stanford Facebook class, and runs the Graphing Social Patterns conference), Justin Smith (of Inside Facebook), Rodney Rumford (of FaceReviews), and myself brainstormed last night trying to understand the current state and direction of the emerging widget industry. The widget … Continue readingLearnings from the Widget Roundtable
Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo sent me a physical card to my work address that told me to check out a unique URL where there was an advanced copy of the book waiting for me, a personalized page “Hi Jeremiah” and this original and unique … Continue readingHow to get me to blog about you
[Viral Marketing doesn’t work, tell everyone you know] Left: Dave McClure is being Ironic. According to Flickr, this is my MOST popular photograph, even more popular than my photo that got on digg and received 200,000 views. Problems Currently, there are over 13,000 widgets on … Continue readingWidget Roundtable: Categorizing the Industry
I’m starting this series of posts tagged On The Move (click to see archives) to recognize and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. We should congratulate the following folks: Robert Scoble (former colleague) leaves Podtech Network to join Fast Company … Continue readingPeople on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Jan 17, 2008
For 2 minutes, forget about these tools: Seesmic, Facebook, Ustream, Justin TV, Blogs, Forums, RSS, Utterz, and all the rest of the tools I listed out. I’m seeing a lot of web strategists over focused on the tools. Secondly, I’ve even seen a few social … Continue readingStop Fondling the Hammer, and Focus on the House
I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly summary, read the summary, then quickly scan headlines, read the bullet, then click to learn even more. I’ve created a category called Digest where you can start to track and access these going forward. Quickly scan … Continue readingWeekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 16, 2008
Every company makes mistakes, and I’m actually quite forgiving about it, what they do next is what will make or break me as a customer, and I have the habit of telling a few thousand people. I’ve been a customer of Dreamhost since I’ve had … Continue readingWhy I feel that Dreamhost is patronizing me.
Click To Play I met up with CEO Jennifer Cooper of Mixercast (Widget mashup platform) last week in San Mateo (where several new startups are starting to call home, one was YouTube). We chatted over wine about the different phases of the web, and she … Continue readingVideo, Evolution of the Internet: Analog to Digital, Portals, and Social Networks (5:00)
When I first wrote the Irrelevant Corporate Website, I never expected it to grow and spread, it’s now been translated into several languages, the most recent one in Hebrew, thanks to Omer Rosen who lives in, Rishon Lezion, Israel My colleague Charlene Li recently showed … Continue readingThe “Irrelevant Corporate Website” now in Hebrew (and how to translate websites)
