Causation.
The creepiest/awesomest commercial for an app yet. From the very creative guys at Elepath.
And yes, they also make great apps…I have found Thinglist to be very useful already.
Bill Barnett on Competition: Competition Teaches
This is why I don’t think you can ever count out the big, aging platform players. If they so choose, they always have enough resources to ‘keep up’ with all the pure-play competition. And over time this will materialize as innovation in the eyes of the customer.
Snapchat is coming to iPad. Here’s an ad from their “Bigger is Better” campaign. #awk
Mandy Kakavas (Google Ventures) and Rubber Duck (Toy)
Valley PR chicks are the best.
Best Buy, Samsung confirm 1,400 mini-stores coming by summer
Good move by Samsung. 70% of the US population live within 10 miles of a Best Buy.
A critical path for them is to have many Apple bigots actually experience (touch, see, hear) the unique Samsung ‘look-n-feel’ and be in awe of their beautiful, large screens.
Facebook is really all about…faces.
It certainly feels that way sometimes.
Source: thejogging
Sheryl Sandberg’s PR Honcho Leans Into Critical Ex-Facebooker With Nasty Message
Two steps forward, one step back. Not this single act per se but just the mainstream coverage portraying women in technology as…well, catty.
Analyzing share of time spent on social networking sites in December 2012, comScore reveals that while Facebook dominated at 83% share, Tumblr occupied the second spot (5.7%), more than Pinterest (1.9%), Twitter (1.7%), and LinkedIn (1.4%) combined, and almost as much as the aggregate of all other social networks (6.1%).
18-29-year-olds more than twice as likely as the average internet user to use Tumblr (13% vs. 6%).
(via Chart/table from: Tumblr Beat Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn for SocNet Time Spent in December)
This is why Tumblr remains such a valuable property. Second, only to Facebook, to total time spent on any social network.
(via amandalynferri)
Source: marketingcharts.com
Sign of the Times
- Me: If we ever breakup, we would have to redo our social networks.
- Amy: I know. What a pain.
- Me: Let's never breakup then, for that reason alone.
- Amy: I'm down.
