The big news on the Web is Google’s reported $500 million offer that Yelp! turned down. The deal itself is of less interest to me-what is really compelling is the idea that Yelp! executives walked away. It’s really, really hard to walk away from a “sure thing” in anything, much less a $500 million exit. [...]
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Making Sense of It All
September 17th, 2009
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The hardest thing in marketing is to make sense of it all. The data, the conversation, the customer complaints, the customer kudos, product features, service definitions, all of it is an overwhelming cacophony to the audience trying to synthesize and make sense of it. The best marketers are the ones who can take [...]
Google Fast Flip Just Made Mainstream News on the Web Relevant Again
September 14th, 2009
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Google launched Flipper nee Fast Flip today at TechCrunch50. The product is a news reader that brings the same concept of Google Reader (the ability to read lots of news from disparate sources in one place, quickly) to mainstream news sites. In my daily work flow this innovation has just made mainstream news relevant again [...]
FriendFeed: damned if you do, damned if you don’t
August 10th, 2009
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The big news of the day is that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed for about $50 million in cash and stock. There’s plenty of coverage of the deal around the Web. While many are surprised, I for one am not. It seems to be a new trend of build up quickly and get out with a [...]
