I suppose dinosaurs were pretty disoriented in their final years roaming the earth so maybe we shouldn’t be too critical of the newspaper industry today.
Still the fact that the WSJ publisher is lashing out at Google as the cause of the newspaper death spiral is unsettling. Sure, Google has been a prominent player in […]

According to this blogger, GMOOT is the battle cry heard across marketing departments everywhere with respect to social networking. GMOOT is the acronym for “get me one of those” which this blogger characterizes as what’s fueling the interest in social networking activities. She goes on to say that the end result is that most organizations […]

This is the first of several posts I’ll do on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency that the Obama Administration has proposed to protect consumers and investors from financial abuse.
The Administration released an 88 page white paper on financial services reform on June 17th. The CFPA is a major new proposed agency and accounts for a […]

Well, depends on who you ask. The New York Times seems to think it has a shot at drawing eyeballs away from traditional television. But, I am not so sure. So, in service to all you readers of the Catalyst Code Blog, I took time out of my busy afternoon to check out nextnewnetwork. […]

The NYTimes had an article yesterday about how investors are pouring (and have poured) tens of millions of dollars into payments on mobile phones since that is the next payments frontier. It talks about turning phones into “virtual credit cards” that enable “click and buy” commerce. Then it proceeds to describe the complexity […]

Yesterday’s article about Facebook’s new search feature was as much a discussion of its strategic direction as it was the new feature. The article spent a lot of time explaining the travails around Facebook’s attempt to be more like Twitter and how its next update will eschew that in favor of the features that existed […]

The financial services industry will be more closely monitored if much of President Obama’s regulatory plan that was released today gets enacted.
The White House team obviously put a great deal of work and thought into this plan. Congress, industry and the public will now need to go over it carefully. Here are four questions […]

The populist bandwagon to whack the credit card companies for a financial crisis they didn’t cause is still going on. The latest is proposed legislation —really a revival of stuff that’s been floating around—to help the merchants reduce the fees they pay to the card companies. You don’t need an advanced degree in economics—just […]

The email I received from Virgin Airlines yesterday announcing their “Day in the Cloud” scavenger hunt reminded me of a question that many have been asking recently: when is digital, social?
The rise of online digital media, like YouTube, and even Twitter has given marketers new tools to ignite viral messaging online. Often, their […]

Interesting interview in yesterday’s WSJ with John Malone. The topic: how to get web visitors to pay for content on the web. The conclusion: advertising as a business model won’t cut it but there is a way to get consumers to ante up for content if bundled with what Malone describes as community and connectivity.
Interesting […]