01 2005 September
BlogDay2005
Yesterday was Blog Day 2005, a day when blogger Nir Ofir suggested everyone post a recommendation of 5 new Blogs (preferably, Blogs different from their...
Read Now30 2005 August
360 Degree Digital Influence
Though I consider myself a marketing-guy at heart … the past few years of my career have been spent working first in advertising agencies, and...
Read Now24 2005 August
Using Procrastination
Waiting until the last minute for anything is a way of life, one that is instilled in each of us through our many years of...
Read Now22 2005 August
Are Bloggers the Historians of our Time?
This weekend I came across Joel Achenbach’s weekly article in the Washington Post Magazine on the topic of blogs. In it, he satirically notes the...
Read Now17 2005 August
Yahoo Taps Celebrities to Blog about Cancer
In a fascinating combination of blog culture and pop/celebrity culture (something Yahoo is getting better and better at – probably thanks to Terry Semel) –...
Read Now25 2005 July
The Personal Reputation Tourism Phenomenon
I love the concept of financial tourism – a term referring to the act of logging into an electronic bank account to "visit" your money...
Read Now01 2005 July
Hyper-Targeting and Why TV will Lose Smart Advertisers
Orbitz Chief Marketing Officer Randy Wagner says [in this week’s BusinessWeek article – "Cable’s Big Bet on Hyper-Targeting] reaching consumers with ads they won’t skip...
Read Now24 2005 June
Visual Search and the Future of Search Engine Marketing
I tried out Grokker today, the latest release from Yahoo! offering a "visual search" tool that groups search results contextually into circular clusters. Despite a...
Read Now10 2005 June
Do you Gmail? Why Hotmail is failing …
I have a Gmail address. In fact, most people in the web industry that I know are now using Gmail for their defacto personal email...
Read Now09 2005 June
Does time of day really matter?
A new report from eMarketer offers some new data in answering one of the most often asked questions in our industry: does time of day...
Read Now08 2005 June
Blogs and the Marketer's Quest for Brevity
This past weekend I went out to a local antique market to find a gentleman selling hundreds of old advertisements from magazines over the last...
Read Now06 2005 June
Videoblogging – the next big thing?
From discussion boards and newsgroups to blogs to podcasting … new forms of content creation are evolving the user-contributed "DIY" model of the Internet. I...
Read Now31 2005 May
Content Creation – More than just Blogs
Content creation online is exploding, with over 53 million people (or 44% of all Internet users) having created and posted content online in 2004 –...
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