I’m sure you’ve all read about Facebook adding email to their social platform. If you didn’t know that you can read Gizmodo’s report here and there are lots of others out there. It’s being mentioned as a Gmail killer and as a threat to Yahoo mail (the world’s biggest provider). It incorporates email, SMS, Facebook messaging and chat. Given that Facebook has half a BILLION people using its platform, it’s not hard to think that way.
But I don’t. And here’s why. Continue reading
Filed under digital media, What's Going On
My neighbor and her family left this morning for Japan. What’s interesting about that is that her son is going for 10 days and bringing no luggage. Nothing checked, nothing carried on. In the process, besides finding a brilliant way to avoid all the nasty fees airlines are imposing these days, he’s raising awareness and money for a cause he supports. What’s making it possible is some brilliant marketing and as I tell you about it I’m going to ask for some help. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, digital media
Like many (OK – MOST) of my neighbors, I woke up Saturday morning without several TV channels available to me. I’m sure you’ve read about the dispute between Fox and Cablevision over what the distributor is going to pay the programming service. It’s not the first (we lost Food Network over the holidays for a bit) or the last dispute of this sort and I’m not going to take sides.
Instead, I want to raise something this dispute got me thinking about. High-def TV. Continue reading
Filed under digital media, What's Going On
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