I have been tinkering around in mobile marketing space for awhile. Really more at the intersection of mobile, flash marketing, location-based services, and social spaces. It's a big intersection. What got me going on it was a mom named Anne that came up with a rather simple solution to a couple of the problems facing […]
Continue reading →So today I made a comment on an article written by Ben Dyer over on TechDrawl. Here it is; Good grief. There are so many fundamental false assumptions in this article and the comments that I might have to start blogging again. Guess I should have used a little smiley face or something. As I […]
Continue reading →So over on TechDrawl Dave Walters has a post that is stirring up the restless yet once again. Toward the end Dave poses a series of questions. So the real question is: when the revolution happens, will you help push it forward or will you defend the old school? What side of history will you […]
Continue reading →The hordes waiting in line for hours today to get that new iPhone 4 make it hard to believe that Apple is losing share in the smartphone market. But as I wrote last week, they are and they will continue to do so. Those hordes are merely trading up, not increasing iPhone share one bit. […]
Continue reading →Here in the heart of the New South folks don’t talk about Pepsi much. When I first moved to Atlanta from the NYC area I walked into Stone Soup and much to my surprise they did not even stock the stuff. Over on North Ave our KO friends will not mention the company by name. […]
Continue reading →Last week, in advance of the unveiling of the new iPhone 4G and the iPhone OS4 operating system a little bit later today by Steve Jobs at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, AT&T announced that it is dropping it's unlimited data plans for iPhones. Of course they did not spin it this way but instead […]
Continue reading →Last night Abby and I were having a nice little stroll to dinner when the subject of Facebook came up. I mentioned to her Mark Zuckerberg's reported comments via IM about Facebook users. "They trust me. Dumb f***s." Don't know if the story is true or not. I do know that Facebook has a pretty […]
Continue reading →"I think people are willing to pay for content. I believe it for music and video, and I believe it for the media." Steve Jobs Steve made the comment at D8 […]
Continue reading →A little bit later today at ad:tech and F8 BLiNQ Media is going to announce the beta launch of BAM (BLiNQ Ad Manager) and an investment of $750,000 in the company by advisors, employees, and management. BAM is a RoR application built by the expert team of Hashrocket. It is integrated with the Facebook Ads […]
Continue reading →David Skok, a five time startup entrepreneur turned venture capitalist at Matrix Partners recently blew into Atlanta for the DLA Venture Pipeline meeting and he blew away the crowd with his talk on "Customer Acquisition & Monetization." The presentation which is embedded below summarizes several key themes on David's blog, "for Entrepreneurs." I have written […]
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