My friend Steve Kane left an interesting comment on yesterday’s post about analog dollars and digital pennies. In it he noted the following: any case, i’m not sure what comscore is counting, but most other measurements services give youtube roughly…
Jeff Zucker, head of NBC Universal, was famously quoted earlier this year warning that the media industry had to work so “that we do not end up trading analog dollars for digital pennies.” It’s a great line and an even…
We had a bunch of people over yesterday for thanksgiving and at one point my daughter and a friend of ours started talking about their Blackberry Bold phones. They like them but sort of miss their older blackberries. My friend…
One of the things I’ve been saying recently on this blog is that the Dow is full of tired companies and tired stocks. I think the Nasdaq is much more representative of the current american economy than the Dow. And…
I’ve spent a lot of time reading about what went wrong in the financial markets in the past year. A lot of the best stuff has come in the form of letters and presentations from hedge fund managers who have…
Yesterday I saw (and twittered) a comScore report on online spending this holiday season. So far this holiday season (comScore calls Nov & Dec the holiday shopping season), $8.2bn has been spent online which is down 4% versus the same…
Marketing initiatives should not be muffled during recessions; they should rather be stepped up, say marketing gurus
I have been slammed with people asking me for invites to Boxee. I’ve tried to comply with every request so far and have given out easily 250 invites in the past week. Now the folks at Boxee have done something…
Soren and Howard have been busy building out stocktwits and today they sent me a link to a firefox extension that makes twitter a bit smarter. When you add the stocktwits extension to firefox, a stock tweet will look like…