Archive for November 2010
PayPal puts a new spin on social commerce with Shoptimist
PayPal has announced a new service they are calling Shoptimist. Essentially it sounds like Groupon meets social, an opportunity that frankly has been sitting there waiting for someone to take hold of it. The gig is you decided to participate in a deal and you try to get your friends to join in, and when…
Read MoreCinch on apps vs the web and connected tvs
In case you missed it, my thoughts and feelings on the state of location-based apps
In an article on Friday in Ad Age, I lay out my thoughts on where the location-based app industry is and why I think it has to evolve. Article: Gimmicks Aren’t Enough to Drive Adoption of Location-Based Shopping
Read MoreI write in the mornings
I never thought about it until I read this post, but I write blogs almost always in the morning, early. I’ve always been an early riser, that’s not news to anyone that knows me, but its interesting to see others talk about doing their writing in the mornings before the day gets started. In fact,…
Read MoreSmall teams. Still love them and Google is suffering by not having them.
I love small teams. I wrote this blog a while back talking about why I love them. And I followed it up with this blog about the things that can kill a small team. Scoble had a blog recently where he interviewed a Google exec and it turns out Google is failing at innovating new…
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