Tag Archives: techcrunch

No, really why advertising is failing online…

Posted on March 28, 2009 by

Update 3/29/09: Danny Sullivan correctly pointed out to me that he is a publisher and an advertiser.  I’ll disagree on the idea that he is a “real user”, by which I meant “regular user”, because he is not nor I … Continue reading →

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The Fallacy of Twitter As Useful Thoughts (for commerce)

Posted on February 15, 2009 by

Update 2/17/09: Here’s a fun piece on CNN about MDs using Twitter from the OR. Again, this is NOT particular useful data being generated.  It is, however, an excellent BROADCAST tool.  Surgeons pushing out updates is useful to families and … Continue reading →

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Techcrunch Lies, Damned Lies – Up and To the Right????

Posted on February 5, 2009 by

Ah, TechCrunch.  You whipped out the old Excel and made the industry famous Up And To The Right Chart. There is no strong conclusion to draw from this very limited data set.  The only piece of interesting data is:  of … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn To What?

Posted on December 17, 2008 by

LinkedIn has been a long time darling in blog discussions, VC conversations and strategery sessions. Techcrunch brings us news of their latest shuffling of the exec deck. It’s one of these media ventures that seems like such a great idea … Continue reading →

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FB Connect isn’t About Users, It’s About Getting Traffic

Posted on December 16, 2008 by

All these publishers and platforms aren’t implementing FB Connect to help users, it’s to increase traffic. Techcrunch asserts: People may have IDs for the various blogging platforms or commenting systems, but most don’t identify with them. It is a necessary … Continue reading →

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Titanium vs. OpenLazlo vs. Adobe AIR vs. Silverlight/WPF vs. JavaFX: Round 2

Posted on December 9, 2008 by

Well, I got a comment on my last RIA post and saw the news on techcrunch that the RIA platform space just got a little more crowdedAppcelerator Titanium is an open source platform for building rich desktop applications using web … Continue reading →

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