The Catalyst Code

Our iPhone SDK post is included in this week’s Carnival of Mobilists, a round-up of some of the best entries on the mobile industry, hosted by Andrew Grill’s blog.

U.S. media employment in December fell to a 15-year low (886,900), slammed by the slumping newspaper industry. But employment in advertising/marketing-services — agencies and other firms that provide marketing and communications services to marketers — broke a record in November (769,000). Marketing consulting powered that growth. (Data from Advertising Age)
Now here’s an interesting trend. As […]

This week’s Carnival of Mobilists is up at WAP Review. The Carnival features the best blog posts on all things mobile-related from the past week.
Included is our Nokia as Mobile Catalyst post on what the term “open” means for all players in the mobile ecosystem.

This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up and hosted by C.E.H. Wiedel from One Man Band: DIY Online Business for One. The CoTC is a weekly roundup of quality business and economic posts from bloggers working outside of the mainstream media.
Our Apple’s Achilles Heel post is included as part of the […]

Blogging for marketing is the subject of Noah Berger’s article in the NYTimes. He mentions a number of small business folks that have started blogs to market their goods and services. He points to some successes but it is very hard to know from what he says whether spending time on blogging is a […]

Facebook’s fumbled effort at revving up an advertising engine is the subject of Randall Rothenberg’s op ed in the Wall St Journal today. While many people thought Facebook’s Beacon was yet another worrying sign that internet companies were threatening consumer privacy with their pursuit of revenue from targeted advertising, Rothenberg argues that Facebook’s about-face demonstrates […]

We’ve just come across some interesting comments on Catalyst Code in a column in The Manila Times. The author, a management consultant named Rey Elbo, says, “If you don’t think the Code would be helpful then you are, no offense meant, probably a man (or a woman) who is due to retire in two […]

Steve Rubel’s recent post on Adage.com, The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Blogosphere, highlights a couple of issues I mentioned in my recent post on the economics of blogging.
Blogging takes a lot of persistance and isn’t for the faint of heart. Relatively few people who start blogs are able to keep them up […]

The blogosphere is one of the biggest and most influential global industries created in the last decade. Technorati tracks almost 100 million blogs and estimates that about 20 percent of blogs are active in the sense that they were updated in the last 90 days. Hundreds of millions of people globally either operate blogs or […]