I figured I’d take the Twitter plunge despite my skepticism. I’ve been at it a week to help promote FinReg21.com our new media property on financial services regulation and its reform. Here’s a preliminary report. The good news is that it is fun and easy. Knocking out 140 character comments is pretty easy and the […]

The recently published research out of Harvard (and by our MPD colleague and head of MPD’s Social Strategy Practice Misiek Piskorski) has generated lots of controversy over that social media tidal wave known as Twitter. His research, which observed more than 300,000 users in May of 2009 revealed that the vast majority of tweets are […]

Welcome to the 171st version of the Carnival of the Mobilists, hosted by The Catalyst Code.
With competition in the Smartphone space getting so fierce, so fast, Mobile Stance thought it would be a good idea to take a step back and take a hard look as to whether App World has real legs or not, […]

There’s some irony in one of the first major daily papers going down the drain being a major daily in Seattle with San Francisco close behind. The Hearst Corporation couldn’t find a buyer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and plans to build an online property from its ashes. Tomorrow, St. Patrick’s Day, 2009, is its […]

As I was cleaning out files the other day, I got to wondering if folks around the country are cleaning out their files like I am right now. A long-time friend of mine in the consulting business is reducing her number of offices from 7 to 3 and was cleaning out files over the past […]

Several years ago, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Ray Kurzweil in which he described his process for new product development; “First, I write the brochure.” The inventor of the first text-to-voice computer technology shared how he had conceived of what he felt was another useful concept to aid the blind. His […]

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 […]