Its been interesting to read reactions around the blogosphere on facebook’s announcement of their adding usernames and the inevitable land grab that will begin tomorrow night when the system goes live. Chris Messina thinks its all about facebook trying to own your digital identity, and he has an interesting post along those lines over on [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email, facebook, Social Media, twitter | Tags: facebook twitter socialmedia email | 1 Comment »
As I am spending more time inside of twitter it’s become clearer and clearer to me that the “retweet” (RT) is by far the most powerful gesture in the twitter universe. So powerful that I think it’s likely to replace newspapers. It is the simple pointing of your finger towards an idea and saying that [...]
Posted: April 11th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Social Media | Tags: bit.ly, is.gd, meda, newspapers, tinyurl, tweetmeme, twitter, url sortening | No Comments »
The data is now starting to trickle in. Here, is a recent Neilson study, for example, that shows that email is starting to slip behind social networks in terms of “active reach”. Here’s the key exhibit: I can’t say I’m terribly surprised. The sad fact of the matter is that the companies that lead the [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email, Social Media | Tags: changing times | No Comments »
Given the recent twirtermania sweeping the nation, I couldn’t help but take A close at the transmission mechanisms built into facebook, MySpace, twitter and some other new communications systems. The whole process has been very interesting and it has really illustrated to me just how big and profound twitter is as a system for collecting, [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email, Social Media | Tags: email, SocialMedia, twitter | 1 Comment »
Email has reentered the blogosphere in a big way over the last 6 months or so. There are so many posts now that it’s impossible to keep track of them all. Dave McClure posted another entry in his recent series on email a few days ago. In his wild-man style, he covers everything from open [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email | 1 Comment »
My friend John pointed me towards this story about the apple design process from Tech Beat. It was presented at SXSW a few weeks ago by Michael Lopp, a senior engineering manager at Apple. He has a blog of his own, which looks to be full of interesting observations on how technology is changing the [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: email | No Comments »
I have been out pitching a new email oriented startup. As I’ve listened to smart people react to the idea, I’ve heard at least five different endings to the sentence “The future of email is _____”. The most frequent ones are: Social Networks SMS IM Mobile Video chat There are other less plausible ones too [...]
Posted: April 2nd, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Advertising, email | 2 Comments »
I was just reviewing Morgan Stanley’s last Internet Trends report and noticed a very interesting statistic deep down in the text of slide #23: According to Morgan Stanley research estimates, spending on disply advertising online (those graphical banners, buttons, skyscrapers, etc) actually FELL over the period of 2001 to 2006. In 2001, total spending on [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Advertising | 2 Comments »
For years, New York has been trying to clean up the East Bank of the Hudson River. There is a longstanding project to transform the run-down piers into parkland. Kristin and I lived one block from the river. There is a fenced off strip near the river full of equipment and supplies for the construction [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Photos | No Comments »
This is a talk that I gave at Shopping.com and eBay when I worked there. It presents a numbers oriented approach to general management that fits well with web businesses that are almost entirely measurable. It discusses several topics related to measurement and metrics including: The difference between a good metrics and bad metrics How [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Presentations | No Comments »
