Channel surfing got weird.
There was this episode of All-Star Celebrity Apprentice this season that revolved around each team’s ability to create a television ad for the consumer electronics company, LG. It wasn’t really about a particular model of te…
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitori…
It’s happening right now.
Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center as you are reading this and they’re having their minds blown by business leaders, scientists, innovators, agitators, inventors, designers…
Smart TV growth is about to explode.
That’s the news out of MediaPost yesterday according to the article: Smart TV Growth Is Set To Explode. But, the bigger question is this: are consumers ready and knowledgeable enough to make this work? I believe th…
A Brazilian organization claims the quick release of Apple’s iPad with Retina constitutes planned obsolescence with regards to its predecessor, the New iPad
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How long will the personal computer – as we have known it to date- be relevant?
If you look at any data points surrounding mobile (and putting it in context on a global level), it seems like nobody is using a computer anymore, doesn’t it? How of…
Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwid…
Have you ever read a book about branding?
When you study the art of branding, any good book on the subject will – at some point early on – turn to the neologism of the word "branding" in terms of marketing and communications. Inevitably, the…
So, were you naughty or nice?
At this most wonderful time of the year, I’m often inundated with phone calls, emails, text messages, Facebook pokes and Twitter tweets about the best business apps to get for a smartphone. This year was no exception. I g…
What will be the timeframe for smartphone and tablet devices to decimate desktop and laptop computers?
By all accounts, it is already happening. When Tim Cook (CEO at Apple) took the stage in the company’s first post-Steve Jobs product launch to annou…
How well are you planning for success?
It was the late nineties when I took on a marketing position at Airborne Entertainment. The company’s vision was to deliver big content on little screens. Yes, nearly a decade ago when all mobile carriers cared a…
I’ve been noticing a new media habit emerge.
There used to be a time in the evening, when I would close the lid of my MacBook Air, plug in my iPhone for the night and turn to the warm glow of the television to forget about the day I just had and not s…
Most everything we look at in the marketing realm is linear.
We’ll look at things like mobile adoption and it’s always with a linear perspective. It wasn’t too long ago that several brain trusts were telling me that smartphone adoption was at 28% one …
You can’t click a trackpad without seeing some kind of chart that compares the growth of the Internet and mobile connectivity to traditional media channels.
As newspapers, television and radio lament plunging advertising dollars, and not a week goes …
I have a massive frustration when it comes to reading books and magazines with my e-reader.
I like to copy and paste portions of text that resonate with me. I like to share them (it could be a tweet or a blog post or on Facebook) and I like to central…
Does it matter which device a consumer uses to connect with a brand?
Think about this question another way: does the rise of the tablet make for a different shopping experience when compared to the desktop or mobile Web? Touch, screen size, portabili…
Apple’s accountants are busy tallying its fiscal 2012 Q3 numbers, including the number of iPads sold and revenue from the iPad product line. Rags Srinivasan examines these two numbers and what they mean for the shelf life of the iPad 2. 
Let’s start with the story from a market of one…
I bought the first iPad from Apple and loved it immediately. I wound up lugging it around with me all over the world along with my MacBook Pro. As soon as the latest version of the MacBook Air was rel…
What is Facebook?
It seems like an easy enough question to answer, doesn’t it? If you ask the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, he’s likely to tell you that it’s a platform which hopes to connect the world in a much mo…
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