Hey, there was a new survey by the Pew Research Center about what people like to watch online. Turns out – people like to watch pretty much everything… Comedy: 58% How-To: 56% Educational: 50% Music: 50% News: 45% This is a silly survey because it says…
Companies who believe that having millions of “Likes” on Facebook is important to their bottom line have it absolutely wrong. “Liking” Coke or “Liking” The Avengers on Facebook isn’t going to make a person drink more Coke or see The Avengers more times – it…
So… Facebook has announced it has passed ONE BILLION USERS. Sounds like a reason for a huge celebration. What an amazingly awesome global community! We should all rejoice together because we built it… together! But unlike the supermarket that rewards its one millionth customer with…
Today is a big day for FB:NASDAQ. The first earnings release after a pretty crappy IPO. Needless to say, earnings and guidance must destroy expectations. This is important for everyone who has a stake in the company – from those who had blind faith in…
That’s a frightening headline for the Hollywood studios. It wasn’t supposed to work. It was an ill-planned experiment that was supposed to fail. Seriously, who would watch that crap? Well… give one point to Silicon Valley in the Great Content Wars of 2012. (This…
Once upon a time, in the tiny hamlet of Menlo Park, California, there was a company called Facebook. This company was unlike any other (sorry, make that ‘like MANY others’) in that it connected people from around world through a magical and glorious technical achievement…
There is an evil temptation that far too many companies are having trouble resisting – the temptation to launch a new product or service on Facebook. Every month, when the number of Facebook users seem to go up by 100 million or so – to…
As soon as I read The Daily Beast story about Facebook’s alleged smear (whisper) campaign against Google, I immediately thought of the scene in “All The President’s Men” with all the newspaper editors sitting around deciding which stories to run the next day. When Watergate…
It simply blows Apple’s Mac vs. PC ads out of the water. Jack In The Box is Yahoo!’s bitch! There… that should get a few Yahoo! executives clicking on this entry. It’s actually a pretty terrible and underwhelming campaign and won’t do anything to help…
Here is a companion to “All The Facebook’s Men” – the actual scene from the original screenplay of “All The President’s Men” INT. WASHINGTON POST – CONFERENCE ROOM NATIONAL EDITOR: –let me tell what happened when I was having lunch today at the Sans Souci–…