November 2009
9 posts
New York City is the Future of the Web →
I’m here at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC today, my first big tech industry conference in a long time, where I’m also excitedly getting ready for my keynote tomorrow. But one of the things I’m most…
Getting Closer to the Consumer, The Evolution of...
Chris Messina wrote a well elucidated post this Friday on the benefits of a more “connected commerce.” Advertisers, web services, and web geeks alike, have been excited for years about the possibilities presented by a mobile, real time, and location based web, yet the tendency is to carry over an advertising paradigm from a generation of web services that may no longer be...
LinkedIn, Twitter, and the Future of Social...
LinkedIn and Twitter made the digital headlines yesterday announcing a partnership to connect LinkedIn’s status updates with Twitter’s tweets.
The idea is simple: When you set your status on LinkedIn you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send that message to your LinkedIn...
“I know they say that success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan;...”
– Recruiting & Job Search, New York City Start-up blog - Marc Cenedella
Mad Men: The JFK Assassination
Incredibly moving episode this past Sunday portraying the assassination of JFK.
The show is successful in illuminating the paradox of American democratic capitalism, as the murder of a culturally significant political figure drives a wedge into the daily struggle for upward mobility. Meanwhile, allusions throughout the season to the violence in Vietnam (bloody foot, burning monk, Greg joining...
Apple's iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 a Month (Peter... →
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Apple’s iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 a Month — Would you pay $30 a month to watch TV via iTunes? — That’s the pitch Apple has been making to TV…
