March 2012
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February 2012
1 post
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
2 posts
You want to know what now?
mindsnacks:
If you could play a game that taught you a new language, skill, or topic, what would you want to learn? Go ahead, get all crazy with your answers….
Zuck on games
Love the way Zuck responds to Charlie Rose’s questions.
Zuckerberg: Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga (which are going public soon and will be valued most likely at multibillion dollar valuations, and...
October 2011
1 post
I’ve never lost a hero before, so I’m not quite sure how to handle yesterday’s news. All I know is that aside from my parents, Steve Jobs was the single biggest force behind me becoming an entrepreneur.
My life has changed completely since taking the leap into entrepreneurship. Simply put, I’ve never been happier. I can’t imagine enduring a single day where...
July 2011
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May 2011
3 posts
April 2011
6 posts
February 2011
1 post
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops →
Probably one of the best emails I’ve ever read. Really inspiring stuff.
December 2010
1 post
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MindSnacks Jobs: We're hiring! →
Quite possibly the best opportunity of all time…
Contact us at jobs@mindsnacks.com if you’re interested in any of the following roles. We look forward to hearing from you!
Game Artist / Animator
MindSnacks builds touch-based learning games for languages and other subjects. We take a unique, entertainment-focused approach to educational…
April 2010
2 posts
January 2010
1 post
Thoughts on technology and (off the beaten path)...
Floating on the Mekong river glued to Netbook and Nintendo DS
I’ve been lucky enough to do some traveling in the last month through Southeast Asia, most of which has been far off the beaten path. When you’re deep in the jungle miles away from steady electricity and proper plumbing, you really don’t expect technology to play a big part in your day. I quickly discovered how...
October 2009
2 posts
September 2009
3 posts
August 2009
1 post
Ford gives out Fiesta hover carts on OMGPOP
While perusing the virtual good store on gaming site OMGPOP, I found a Ford Fiesta hover cart for sale. Once purchased, the item can be driven within the Hover Kart game. It’s nice to see OMGPOP forgo banner ads and pursue more interesting monitzation strategies.
July 2009
3 posts
How Facebook Connect and Other Technologies Are...
Here’s a piece I wrote up a little while back that I neglected to share on this blog. It’s a tad dated, but I think the implementations below are still some of the most interesting out there.
Most of us have heard, read and experienced the phenomenon of the social graph, which can be defined as the network of personal connections through which people communicate and share...
May 2009
3 posts
“Social media is like teen sex.
Everyone wants to do it.
Nobody knows how....”
– Avinash Kushick - Analytics Evanglist, Google
April 2009
5 posts
How good is Tumblr?
Very.
I used to consider blogging to be a pretty simple online activity. I’d just go to this one blogging service (which felt the same as the rest) and I’d sign on, write a post and then leave. It wasn’t a bad experience, just a very simple and unimaginative one.
Tumblr has made blogging much more than that for me. Through awesome design and strong features like...
Social media internships popping up left and right
As of late, a large influx of social media internships have popped up on job boards.
Here’s the reason: marketers are discovering that manning a Twitter, Facebook and Myspace effectively means spending countless hours updating content and responding directly to customers. Having fully-paid employees on the hook for responding to every tweet just isn’t going to cut it.
This is not to...
March 2009
1 post
Here’s a guest post I did for InsideFacebook. It went live a little while back, so my apologies if you’ve already picked up on it.
What Does Facebook Connect Mean for Agencies?
This is a guest post by Jesse Pickard, Social Media Specialist at Razorfish. You can find Jesse on his blog or Twitter.
After spending the last few months digging into the intricacies of Facebook Connect,...
February 2009
1 post
Find me at South by Southwest
Tomorrow I’m taking a much-needed vacation for two weeks. My plan: leave the iphone at home and steer clear of any and all internet cafes at all costs.
When I get back I’ll be off to South by Southwest to give a presentation on “Why Gen-Y Won’t Friend Your Brand” at 3:30 on 3/14. I’m a SXSW first-timer and would love to meet as many people as possible during my...
January 2009
4 posts
Collaborative iPhone apps
I’m continuously amazed that there are so few iPhone apps that allow for real-time collaboration between two or more people. That’s why it’s nice to see the “Whiteboard: Collaborative Drawing” app pop up in the app store. It allows two people to create a drawing simultaneously on a virtual white-board.
Hopefully we’ll start seeing more collaborative apps in the...
My Predictions For Mobile Social Networks
In the early summer of 2008, I was really bullish on mobile social networks. I envisioned people walking into a bar and looking at their iphone to see if anybody they knew was there, checking the single to taken ratio of the bar, etc. Like others, I was excited for the value that location and mobility brought to social networking and I predicted a rapid adoption.
Then I bought the iPhone 3G and...
Yet another reason why I love Tumblr →
WatchESPN has one hell of an interstitial ad running today. Go to espn.com to see it with sound.
December 2008
6 posts
Social media starter kit for small businesses
Here’s a guest blog post I did for my friends over at Luprocks. Their blog gets a lot of traffic from the small business community, particularly within the jewelery industry, so I thought it might be helpful to offfer up five of my favorite beginner resources on social media. The small business owners that I talk to usually know there is a lot to gain through the use of social media, but...
SXSW-Bound
I just found out that I have been selected to speak at South By Southwest. It’ll be my first trip down to the conference.
The topic of the presentation is “Why Gen Y won’t friend your brand”. I’m going to propose a bunch of next-generation social media marketing tactics that will work with Gen Y. I’ll do my best to tread new ground and make the content very actionable.
Thanks for...
