Category Archives: social media
Twitter’s Platform Mojo
Betaworks’ John Borthwick recently posted the informative Ongoing tracking of the real time web… Combined with Fred Wilson’s AVC post Twitter v. the Twitter Ecosystem, these two posts illustrate and highlight important learnings for startups and entrepreneurs everywhere. Those learnings … Continue reading
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Channel marketing: What all marketing people can learn from social media
Founder’s Fund’s, Internet Mastermind, and friend, Dave McClure posted one of his periodic rants over on his blog. Good read, great font colors. When I read it, it got me reflecting on the value I’ve seen as a marketing professional … Continue reading
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Shortening Shorteners
Image via Wikipedia URL Shortening services like bit.ly, ow.ly, and others have exploded recently (shortly) onto the social internet’s stage. What seemed to start as way to get links small enough to fit into a tweet or to make it … Continue reading
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What I learned teaching myself SEO
I wrote last summer about my quest to teach myself SEO in 2 weeks. At the time, the key task was simple: get the NYT wedding announcement proclaiming my wife, Aimee Jamison (nee Aimee Vincent), and me as married to … Continue reading
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Good, if painful, signal from New MySpace Leadership
Today announcements of sharp people cuts at MySpace hit and hit hard. This is a painful step, and my sympathies go out to any employee impacted. I take no pleasure or glee in poking fun at this. I’m sure that … Continue reading
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I’d listen to Jon Stewart before Chris Anderson on fixing media’s business model
Image via Wikipedia TechCrunch summarizes Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson’s rules for pricing on online media by calling them “counterintuitive.” Author Erick Schoenfeld, writes that Mr. Anderson “articulated something that is now increasingly becoming obvious: As products go digital, their marginal … Continue reading
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Facebook’s Vanity URLs’ impact: web-based mail will be the big loser
Image via CrunchBase Like hundreds of thousands of others apparently, I grabbed a vanity URL On Facebook Friday night. (I’m www.facebook.com/jay.jamison.) As it was all the rage in the geekosphere, I was aware it was happening. As the Penguins had … Continue reading
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I still think this is a goofy debate re: Twitter & retaining users
Image by Joe Penniston via Flickr I wrote about this recently here, but just saw this as I was eating lunch: Twitter is retaining more users than Nielsen thinks » VentureBeat. I agree with the conclusion—Twitter shouldn’t worry—but I find … Continue reading
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What I’ll watch for with MySpace: progress on bite-size chunks
Tech Crunch’s article, MySpace Is In Real Trouble If These Page View Declines Don’t Reverse, provides a sobering view of the challenge in front of MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta and his newly installed exec team. I’m going to assume … Continue reading
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Who I’d bet against if Twitter were sold
Image via Wikipedia This post is inspired by Warren Buffett. Buffett often talks about how with new technology it’s impossible to pick the winners, but it’s obvious who to short. He uses the example of the thousands of automobile companies … Continue reading
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