June 2009
57 posts
Analytics Matters →
Analytics matters today, just like it did yesterday, last year, and 5 years ago. In fact, it has always mattered.
People, projects, companies, and teams tend for forget the importance of analytics…
Analytics matters http://bit.ly/2QMHbV
100MM second hand games traded in the US per year http://bit.ly/5fE45
Great post about the mobile challenge at our USV blog today http://bit.ly/aTGPL
catching up
Off the grid for a few days
RT @austinbryan & @bfeld web economy BS generator - http://bit.ly/eQs87 one of my favorites
doing some graphics work
How I manage my time →
A few people recently have inquired about how I manage my time and process lists of items that need some action. I have a simple yet elegant solution after trying project management systems,…
auto legal disclosure messages on IM’s now from certain co’s…..worse than 1 page disclosures at the end of emails
analytics
The Vendor Client Relationship in the Real World →
This amazing video showing the vendor\client relationship in real world situations comes out of Indianapolis from http://www.scofieldedit.com/
Amazingly accurate
Watchjonsteinberg:
DropBoxee for Music: playlist.io + Boxee
Put music in a drop.io and play it easily anywhere on Boxee. Load up songs at work…listen to them in the drop…later that day when you go to a party, pull them up on Boxee on a TV! Create playlists for friends who have Boxee and just tell them the drop name.
Please vote for DropBoxee below as your favorite music app in the Boxee Developer...
FedEx guy and UPS guy in elevator at the same time - think they were uncomfortable?
the internet is less than 5K days old, http://ping.fm/2Hv4c
Quality over Volume →
I recently went to a discussion in NYC called Social Media Bootcamp which was put on by Seth Goldstein of SocialMedia.com I am bit late to posting - but nonetheless my thoughts are below.
The…
Price, Quality, Time - you can only Choose two http://bit.ly/VznZN
Headed to the #140conf this morning
Price, Quality, Time - Choose Two →
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When you work on any project there is a saying that you have to decide between Price, Quality, and Time - but you have to choose two. Nobody gets all…
I want my text messages to go to my email inbox so I don’t miss things
Change the world vs. Fix the world http://bit.ly/JCCH
Congratulations @adamsinger on joining the @toprank group! http://bit.ly/njDNf
Change the world vs. Fix the world →
I had an interesting conversation over the weekend that got me thinking about two different types of people. Some want to fundamentally change the world and others want to fix the world.
Some…
hmm the internet seems to have lost something that was there yesterday - time to search google cache
No more analog TV http://bit.ly/8lXJz
RT @andrewparker The big apple bbq is today! Its like christmas in June… Meat Christmas. Meatmas.
Every weekend near my house they rip open the street, dig around a bit, then do it all again next sat/sun.
Social Media Cleanup →
Last year I posted about Social Media Spring Cleaning in which I explained that every so often you need to clean out your social media accounts.
In an effort to stick with the same…
Bootleg DVD sales on the subway: Tremors II, Die Hard II, Lost Boys II (srsly?) oh and Reindeer Games
Platform Agnostic →
Platform Agnostic today means that my system can work with your system, and it doesn’t really matter what we use - it will always work the same way. I used to use this term a lot on SEM sales calls…
“Great new technology is like a great new song. It makes us say “wow” in the best...”
– a comment on this post by vladimir vukicevik
What Drives Consumer Adoption Of New Technologies?
(via fred-wilson)
getting referrer traffic from bing - wonder how it will show up in the pie split in analytics for big sites
Just setup a friend who is a law student with a blog and quick SEOSMM lesson. In a tight job market everything counts to set yourself apart
the coming facebook names debacle prediction by @anildash http://bit.ly/8FmtD funny stuff
I check my snail mail once or twice a week and check my email infinite times per day
Real Time Apple Application Data →
I have always been a fan of putting a “tangible” element in front of people - especially for technology companies. A great example of this is a story I heard from the early days of Amazon.com where…
Fancy Pants
Tourist in the park: can you help me get to (ridiculously specific address) in NY? we have never been here before.
Me: yes sure, (checks map on bberry)
Tourist in the park: oooooo fancy pants on a Blackberry, aren't you so cool with your smarty phone!
Me: ...
This is the second time in a week I have been ridiculed for providing help via Blackberry
“…if I were to tell you I just got back from a weekend in Dublin, wouldn’t...”
– From my friend Scott entitled Regression Analysis
Early breakfast
Madison Avenue Blues Video →
You have probably seen my thoughts on the upfront here before but this video is an amazing parody of everything wrong with the traditional advertising business today - enjoy.
importing the last of my physical CDs - can you recycle CDs somewhere?
The only path left is to lean out of the edge and become interesting, noteworthy and yes, remarkable http://bit.ly/G1JGP
Checkout Term Sheet Manners by @fredwilson http://bit.ly/os71T for a good plan to negotiate term sheets (applies to any contract really)
SEO is like Art →
“masterpiece” by 415style
I was talking with Amanda Peyton who I met after the Internet Week version of the NY Tech Meetup about SEO and gave my thoughts on why and how it is…
Enjoyed the article and seeing @stevenbjohnson on the cover of TIME http://bit.ly/Mw2Ma
great brainstorming session with @zeemer today - always motivating coming out of those