2009–2026
1,407 posts
2026 70
October 2026
- DOC 2026: Science on the Brink
- DOC Is Next Week!
- The AI Narrative Has Shifted
- In Defense of Writing (and Reading, and Conversation)
September 2026
- Get An Agent Who Works For You
- On Suleyman’s Conjecture: Should AI Have Rights?
- Google Has Lapped ChatGPT. Now What?
- AI Data Dustups, Bond Market Tremors, and Whatever Muse Is
- Comparing OpenAI’s Ad Platform to Early Google and Facebook Growth
August 2026
- Inadvertent Time Travel
- The Essential Question: Can We Control AI?
- Data. Is. Not. Oil. Can It Be A Public Good?
- What’s Next?
- AI Is Just (Currently Bad) Software
- The Data Center Debate Rages. Will It Change the Course of History?
July 2026
- Five Stories To Watch
- The Valley Is Terrified of AI
- What’s up: DOC!
- Who Owns Search Results?
- Who Controls the Tokens?
- I’ll Be Framing My AI Check
- Again, What About the AI Ads?
- The Rhymes of Tech History
- Who Stole My Alpha?
- The Economics of AI Are Shifting
- Have We Lost The Plot?
June 2026
- Remembering Om Malik
- How Can You Trust the News?
- Quitting A Digital Habit
- Will AI Ever Become a True Platform? Not Without Us….
- Who Should Govern Us, Apple or…The Government?
- Wait, Chat Is Dead? Does That Mean OpenAI Is Abandoning Ads?
- Should AI Be Addictive?
- Where’s All the AI Magic?
- Google Encloses The Web
May 2026
- Is AI Inherently Anti-Social?
- Data Is Non Rivalrous. Why Have We Enclosed It?
- What’s Up With DOC? 2026 Program Launches Today
- OpenAI Plans on Marketing Its Way To Glory. Bonne Chance!
April 2026
- Where’s My AI Shareware?!
- Your Conversations With AI Are Now On Sale
- Options Destroyed
- The Island Underground Radio Station
- The Web We Want Vs. The Web We Have
- First Person Singularities, Epistemic Supply Chains, and Load Bearing Euphemisms: An Interview with Claude.ai
- The Withline
- Product, Platform, Interface, Medium, Language: What Is AI?
March 2026
- Rebel, King, and Tyrant: Apple at 50
- We Dream of Genies, But Will Big Tech Let Us Use Them?
- How Long Will Your Claw Be Open?
- Will Anthropic Pivot to Consumer?
February 2026
- I’m Sorry, LinkedIn!
- First Look at OpenAI Ads
- Claude Says Non to Ads
- Advertising Built Generative AI. Now Comes the Remodel.
January 2026
- How Search Drove Generative AI – A Passage from “The Search”
- Anthropic Says the Quiet Part Out Loud.
- Thriving in an AI World: The Importance of Good Questions
- AI and Ads: Here We Go!
- Predictions 2026: The Full List
- Do You Trust The Conjurer? (Predictions 2026, #1)
- The Apple Google Duopoly Begins Anew
- Battle Lines Are Drawn (Predictions 2026, #2)
- Magic and Mayhem (Predictions 2026, #3)
- Health Takes Center Stage, Open Evidence Acquired (Predictions 2026, #5 and #4)
- Finally, Voice Interfaces For The Home (Predictions 2026, #6)
- The Year Tech Gets Even Bigger (Predictions 2026, #7)
- AI Can’t Cost This Much (Predictions 2026, #8)
- Anthropic Goes Public (Predictions 2026 #9)
- The Feed Declines (Predictions 2026, #10)
2025 44
December 2025
- What I’ve Learned: On Health
- Grading My 2025 Predictions
- Two Approaches to Saving The Web. Only One Works.
- Algorithms and Capitalism: Cleaning Up The Waze Parade
- OpenAI: Code Red? More Like Code Green!
- Is OpenAI Today’s Netscape? Or Is It AOL?
November 2025
September 2025
- Wired’s Backbone Stiffens
- Will AI Replace Doctors?
- Is AI In The Trough of Disillusionment Yet?
- Google (and Apple) Get a Slap on The Wrist
August 2025
July 2025
- The Tech Industry Is Locking AI Into Old Models. That’s Bad for Everyone.
- Tech And Society’s Faustian Bargain
- If You Trust AI, You’re Asleep. (At Least You’re Not “Woke”)
- Is AI Killing Search Marketing?
- Nearly 30 % of All Bullsh*t Online Is Health Related
- CloudFlare To The AI Industry: Pay Up!
June 2025
- The Standard, Part 2: “The Internet Weekly”
- AI Is Breaking The Internet. Can Bill Gross Fix It?
- The Standard, Part 1 – The End and The Beginning
- Get Wired: The Launch (1992-93)
May 2025
- One Fateful Phone Call: How I Ended Up At Wired
- The Trouble With Bees
- Headless Marketing
- A “White Collar Recession”? It Won’t Be AI’s Fault.
- Is AI the “Big Bang” or Merely a “Turning Point”? Much Depends on the Answer
- How Google Can Win the Future
- Free the Database of Intentions: Could Google Thrive If It Gives Away Its Data?
- Wait, What’s This DOC Thing You’re Doing?!
April 2025
- How On Earth Will OpenAI Hit $129 Billion in Four Years?!
- Who Owns Your AI Identity? (Hint: Not You)
- Should AI Write Our Fiction?
- “Ready Later This Year”
- Zuck Lobbies Trump: Optics No Longer Matter
March 2025
- The University of Peers and Elders
- Facebook Goes Backward. Why?
- Google (And all of Tech) to News: Shove It.
- Where’s The Business Model in Chat-Based Search?
- Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink
- How Is AI Changing Search? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Tech Used To Be Magical. Why Isn’t It Anymore?
February 2025
January 2025
2024 26
December 2024
- Predictions 2025: Tech Takes the Power Position
- Looking Back at 2024: How Did My Predictions Fare?
- Can Bluesky Do Advertising Right? Yes.
- The Tragedy of Generative AI
- The Token Act – A Modest Proposal from 2018
November 2024
- Bluesky, Twitter, and “The Open Network”
- Apparently, Brand Safety Is Dead. That’s Good For News, No?
- Don’t Repeal Section 230. Clarify It.
- What I’ve Been Up To This Past Year: DOC
August 2024
- Technology, Humanity, and the Existential Test
- From the Archive: Tech Must Get Over Its Superman Complex, Or We’re All Screwed
July 2024
- Consume First, Deal with the Shit Later
- What’s SearchGPT Really About? Moving Past the Training Data Dilemma.
- Introducing DOC
May 2024
April 2024
- Wrestling With The Gray Lady
- Will GenAI Kill The Web?
- Mine, Mine, All Mine
- Do We Even Have The Spine To Sacrifice, Just A Little Bit?
March 2024
February 2024
- Larry Lessig – Why Can’t We Regulate the Internet Like We Regulate Real Space?
- Vint Cerf: Maybe We Need an Internet Driver’s License
- Google’s On The Field Now. Is It Being Too Cautious?
- The Messenger Deserved Its Demise. Its Staff? Not So Much
January 2024
2023 48
December 2023
- Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data
- Google’s “Left of Home” Newsfeed Gets Confused
- Eat Sleep Drink Dream – Flipping Work and Life For A Year
- Grading my 2023 Predictions: The Batting Average Dips
- Advertising Is Coming To Threads. What Happens Next?
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
- The Sites That Never Get Built: Why Today’s Internet Discourages Experimentation
- Google Will Become the World’s Largest Subscription Service. Discuss.
July 2023
- Digital Is Killing Serendipity
- At Threads, No News Is Good News, For Now. But That’s About To Change.
- Threads: We Don’t Want to “Hang Out With Everybody.” Sometimes, We Want To Leave.
June 2023
- Come With Me on a Spin Through the Hellscape of AI-Generated News Sites
- Asking The Stupid Questions of GenAI
- It Takes Time, And It Ain’t For Sure.
- Can Gather Change the Course of Internet History?
May 2023
- AI’s “Oppenheimer Moment” Is Bullshit.
- Unretirement
- The Firefox Test
- Mastering the Rudiments
- Google Splits the Web Into “Commercial” and “Non Commercial” Search
- Google and Commoditization: Anyone Need a BackRub?
- Microsoft Ups the Ante on Both Google and Its Partner OpenAI
April 2023
- Michelle’s Approach to ChatGPT Has Me Convinced Google Will Launch a Direct Competitor
- Yeah, That’s Why BuzzFeed News Failed.
- Michelle’s Google Usage Is Down 60 Percent. Discuss.
- If We Pay for GPTs like We Pay for Internet Service, What Will We Really Get?
- We Dream of Genies – But Who Will They Work For?
March 2023
- Google Releases Bard, Kind Of
- AI Sausage-Making and Unconsidered Consequences
- Ads in Chat-Based Search? Of Course – But What Kind?
- Toothpaste, Tubes And Semantics: Is AI Chat Search? Who Cares?!
February 2023
- What If Google Goes on Offense?
- Is Google Truly F*cked?
- As AI Moves In, Let’s Not Forget Why We Like People
- Google, Microsoft Set to Announce Major AI Integrations In Search This Week. We’ve Been Here Before.
- OpenAI: Platform or Destination?
- The Recount Joins The News Movement
January 2023
- ChatGPT Doesn’t Get Writer’s Block. Discuss.
- Is ChatGPT A World Changing Technology? (And Will We All Become “Centaurs”?)
- TikTok Promises to Fix TikTok With…What Exactly?
- Out, Damn Internet.
- Neeva Combines AI and Search – Now Comes The Hard Part
- Is the Most Creative Act a Human Can Engage in the Formation of a Good Question?
- Bing, Google, and Conversational Search – Is OpenAI an Arms Merchant, Or a Microsoft Ally?
- The Next First Day
2022 14
December 2022
- Predictions ’23 – The Summary
- Predictions ’23: Crypto, Tesla, IPOs, and Trump Takes a Bow
- Predictions ’23: Advertising – Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Twitter
- Predictions ’23: AI Gets a Business Model (or Three)
- Predictions 2022: How’d I Do? Strangely, My Best Year Ever
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
April 2022
January 2022
2021 8
December 2021
- Predictions 2022 – Crypto, Climate, Big Tech, Streaming, Offices, Tik Tok…and (ugh) Trump
- Facebook’s Pretty Bad, No, Terrible Awful Game Changing Year
- Predictions 2021: How’d I Do? Pretty Damn Well.
October 2021
February 2021
January 2021
2020 13
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
June 2020
- Marketers: Your Role In Social Discourse Is Critical
- Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
April 2020
- Zoom Is YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp – All in Two Months.
- New Research Shows Why and How Zoom Could Become an Advertising Driven Business
- An Open Letter To American Corporations: It’s Good Business (and Smart Marketing) To Support Quality Journalism
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
2019 11
December 2019
October 2019
September 2019
July 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
2018 28
December 2018
- Predictions 2018: How I Did. (Pretty Damn Well, Turns Out)
- It’s Not Facebook’s Fault: Our Shadow Internet Constitution
- So I’m Going to China Saturday. That Just Got Interesting.
November 2018
- Zuckerberg In A Bunker
- When Tech Loves Its Fiercest Critics, Buyer Beware
- Lazy Ad Buying Is Killing The Open Web.
October 2018
- After the Token Act: A New Data Economy Driven By Small Business Entrepreneurship
- This Is How Walmart Beats Amazon
- Instead of Breaking Up The Tech Oligarchs, Let’s Try This One Simple Hack
- Facebook Can’t Fix This.
- Amazon And The Bridge Too Far
- Andrew Yang Deserves to Be Heard. Will Our Politics Let Him Speak?
September 2018
- Cloudflare and the Art of Breaching Moats
- Governance, Technology, and Capitalism.
- If Software Is Eating the World, What Will Come Out the Other End?
- Dear Marc: Please, *Do* Get Involved
- Social Media Too Shall Pass
- Facebook, Twitter, and the Senate Hearings: It’s The Business Model, Period.
August 2018
- Hey Jack, Sheryl, and Sundar: It’s Time to Call Out Trump On Fake News.
- The Accountable Capitalism Act: It’ll Never Happen, But At Least Now the Conversation Will
- Google and China: Flip, Flop, Flap
July 2018
- On Leaving the Bay Area
- When Senators Ask Followup Questions, You Answer Them.
- The Tragedy of the Data Commons
June 2018
May 2018
January 2018
2017 18
December 2017
September 2017
August 2017
- The Data Deal Is Opaque. We Should Fix It.
- No. Social Terrorists Will Not Win
- My New Column – Please Sign Up!
June 2017
May 2017
- Is Humanity Obsolete?
- The Internet Big Five Is Now The World’s Big Five
- Dear Facebook…Please Give Me Agency Over The Feed
- Ads. Grrr.
April 2017
- Please, Let’s Not Go There Again
- Pick Up the Phone and Call.
- Bad Policy Makes Us Sick. Business Must Lead Us Back.
March 2017
January 2017
2016 21
December 2016
October 2016
September 2016
June 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
- Growth Is Hard
- The NewCo-BigCo Shift or, These Nine Things Will Change Business Forever
- Should a Company Have a Soul?
- The Waze Effect: Flocking, AI, and Private Regulatory Capture
January 2016
- On Medium, Facebook, and the Graph Conflict
- Business, Meet Mission: With His Final #SOTU, Obama Reframed The Climate Debate
- Mobile Gets a Back Button
- FaceSense: Sometimes (OK, A Lot of Times) Your Predictions Are A Tad Early
- The Streaming Conundrum: Forgetting What I Heard
- Dear Microsoft. I Want To Use Office 365. But…
- Is Tech Getting Boring?
- Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission
2015 38
December 2015
- Can Business Get A Conscience?
- Predictions 2015: How’d I Do?
- Robert Reich: “Saving Capitalism” From Itself
- Bring Back the Ozone Hole
- New Post On NewCo.Co: Silicon Valley Won’t Always Be The Center of Entrepreneurship
- Innovation Happens Everywhere Now: Barcelona-based Typeform Proves It
- Tesla-As-A-Platform
November 2015
- Google Unveils App Streaming: Is This The Platform That Unifies Apps And The Web?
- Boulder, the World’s Most Creative City: Where I’ll Be Next Week @NewCo
October 2015
- Written First On Medium. Discuss.
- Maker, Soylent, Hyperloop, USC: The Places I’ll Visit In LA Next Month
- Do It Right. Not Fast. Right.
September 2015
- It’s Time to Flip the Bit on Publishing and Data
- The Myth of Valley DoucheBaggery
- Where I’ll Be During NewCo SF & Oakland Next Month
August 2015
- This Is How We Pick A NewCo
- Spanning SF and Oakland: The First Ever NewCo Bay Bridge Festival Lineup Is Out!
- Branch Deepviews: Routing Around The Damage of Apps and App Stores
- Information Transparency & The “True Cost” Calculator
July 2015
June 2015
- Scaling Through Culture: WeWork and Blue Bottle (vs. Regus and Starbucks)
- Why Does Silicon Valley Like “Silicon Valley” So Much?
- Forget Work Life Balance. It’s All About Work Life Integration
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
- What’s NewCo? These Videos Will Help
- A Few Questions For Publishers Contemplating Facebook As A Platform
- With Meridian, Sovrn Levels the Playing Field For Publishers
February 2015
- Maybe The Best Way To Change the World Is To Start a Company
- Your Network Transcends Time – Care For It
- Remember the Internet When Considering The Things
January 2015
2014 89
December 2014
- My Predictions for 2014: How’d I Do?
- What Will Search Look Like In Mobile? A Visit With Jack
- What Media Must Do To Succeed
November 2014
- Google: The Information-First Conglomerate
- The Web Will Kill Apps
- The Internet Big Five: Doubling In Three Years On A Trillion Dollar Base
- Whither the Public Commons? Enter The Private Corporation
- Else 11.03.14: It’s Over, Google. Now What?
October 2014
- My NewCo Los Angeles Picks
- Else 10.27.14 – Assange Takes on Google
- Around The Kitchen Table, a Better Way To Finance “Secondaries” Is Born
- “Peak Google”? Maybe, But Is “Native” The Reason?
- Else 10.13.14: Smiling Happy Facebook People (Not Teens, Though)
- Living Systems and The Information First Company
- My Picks for NewCo Silicon Valley
- The Next Stage of Mobile Quickening: Links Get Intelligent
September 2014
- Else 9.29.14: Google snorts milk through its nose; Food, Things, and Marketing
- Every Company Is An Experience Company
- Else 9.22.14: Good Design Trumps Good Code
- Thoughts On Alibaba
- A Print Magazine Launch? What?!!! California Sunday Is Coming
- Else 9.15.14: Ma, Thiel, Apple Pay, and Minecraft
- Life Break: Go See “Take Me To The River”
- A Big Day For The Internet
- Early Lessons From My Mobile Deep Dive: The Quickening Is Nigh
- We’re Innumerate, Which Is Why We Love Visualizations
- Else 9.2.14: Don’t Worry, The Robots Are Our Friends. But the People?
August 2014
- “Facebook Is a Weatherless World”
- Writing Is Code, Reading Is Visualization
- NewCo New York 2014: My Chairman’s Picks To Visit
- AdTech Is Alive and Well: I’ll Have the Full Stack, Please
- Why I’m Watching Deep Linking In Mobile
- My 2014 NewCo SF Schedule: Hard Choices
July 2014
- NewCo Sizzle Reel, SF Sked Are Up!
- It’s Time For Twitter To Filter Our Feeds. But How?
- Content Marketing And the New Mainstream
- Else 7.7.14: You’re Not A Target Till You Are
- On Media, Ro Khanna, the NSA, and the Future of the Internet: Bloomberg Video
- A Return To Form In Media
June 2014
- Else 6.30.14: Input, Output, Kaput
- Search and Apps – Give Consumers Back Their Links
- Else 6.23.14: Questioning Valley Idols
- Else 6.16.14: Internet Ads Grow, Apple Ads Blow
- Else 6.9.14: The Internet Beats Rabbit Ears
- Feels Like Apple…in 1992
- Why You Need to See ‘Her’ (Or, ‘Her’ Again)
- Else 6.2.14: What Do We Want The Internet To Be?
May 2014
- Programmatic Needs Context
- Else 5.19.14: I Too, Shall Be Forgotten (At Least By Europe)
- Do You Have a Mission or…Are You *On* A Mission? On Being a NewCo
- Viacom v. Cable One: A Foreshadowing of Things To Come in The Battle for the Open Web?
- Else 5.5.14: Stay Sober, My Friend (And Watch Your F8)
April 2014
- Else 4.28.14: F*ck Policy, Except When I Care About The Outcome
- Google+ Won (Or Why Google Never Needed A Social Network)
- The Next Vegas Will Be A City That Lets You Truly Disappear – If Only For A While
- Else 4.21.14: It’s (Almost) All Google
- What Is Google?
- Else 4.7.14: So Much Information, Precious Little Insight
- Introducing #Climate
- To Win The Newsfeed, Facebook Should Put Its Users In Control
March 2014
- Else 3.31.14: Skulls, Bitcoin, AI, Souls, and Corporate Religion
- Might Curators Be An Answer To Twitter’s Signal To Noise Problem?
- Why You Should Read The Circle, Even If You Don’t Buy It
- Else 3.24.14: “In front of us are two roads – which way are we going to go?”
- Thinking Out Loud: Potential Information
- We Have Yet to Clothe Ourselves In Data. We Will.
- Else 3.10.13: Satoshi, Snowden, Google, And The Meaning of it All
- Else 3.3.14: Is The Internet A Utility?
February 2014
- To Be Clear: Do Not Build Your Brand House On Land You Don’t Own
- What Would You Ask Sundar Pichai, SVP Android & Chrome at Google?
- else 2.24: “This is how revolutions begin”
- Linked In Is Now A Publishing Platform. Cool. But First Get Your Own Site.
- else 2.17: “Drag the future here and see if we want it”
- Buh-Bye, CableCo
- else 2.10: “Information that was never designed for a human to see”
- We Are Not Google, Therefore, We Are
- How Facebook Changed Us, and How We Might Change Again
- else 2.4: “Seeing ourselves as bits and bytes”
- Bill Gates Active Again At Microsoft? Bad Idea.
- Step One: Turn The World To Data. Step Two?
January 2014
- A Big Day For Federated, and the Birth of Sovrn Holdings
- else 1.27: “Humans are pretty good at deceiving themselves”
- Note to Interwebs: Pinterest Can’t Be, And Won’t Be, Only About Images.
- else 1.20: “The future is much simpler than you think.”
- Google Buys Nest
- else 1.13: “Keep the instrument in its place”
- The Four Phases of CES: I, Consumer, Am Electronic
- else 1.6: “Ghosts in the machine”
- Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See
2013 94
December 2013
- Looking Back: How Did My 2013 Predictions Fare?
- Google’s Year End Zeitgeist: Once Again, Insights Lacking
- Facebook Must Win The Grownup Vote
- else 12.16: “It’s not entirely rational”
- 12.9 else: “The most mericful thing in the world”
- Traffic of Good Intent: We Beat Fraud By Working Together
- Apple+Topsy: It’s Not About Twitter (And Twitter Is Probably Cool With That)
- Playing With Infomous
- else 12.2: “Anchoring digital existence in the physical world”
November 2013
- else 11/25: The Collective Hallucination of Currency
- else 11.18: “We can see it, we can feel it, because we’re already almost there.”
- Why The Banner Ad Is Heroic, and Adtech Is Our Greatest Artifact
- Nearly 30 Years In Less Than an Hour
- TWITTER ADS ARE GETTING, UM, MORE NOTICEABLE
- Ubiquitous Video: Why We Need a Robots.txt For the Real World
- else 11.11: “You can’t let the algorithms take over”
- More than 200,000 Minutes of Engagement, and Counting
- A Metal Gun, Made from Digital Bits
- else 11.4: “Where’s the rage, man?”
- It’s…A Marketing Barge?!
October 2013
- Poll: What’s On the Google Barge?
- else 10.28: “Merging with the technology”
- What Do Drones Mean for Humanity?
- else 10.21: Are Drones Over Burning Man “Evil”?
- A World Lit, Literally, By Data
- else 10.14: “Drones don’t feel” – But the people who see them do.
- Google Now: The Tip of A Very Long Spear
- else 10.7: A Dread Pirate Gives Up His Bitcoins
- Twitter’s S1: How Do the Numbers Stack Up To Google and Facebook?
- Here Are the Companies I Chose For OpenCo SF This Year. Damn, That Was Hard
September 2013
- else 9.30: The “Monkeys with Typewriter” Algorithm
- else 9.23: From “Pulp to Prototype” and Other Good Reads
- Get Out of Your Office, And Into The Modern Working City: OpenCo SF Is Live!
- Search and Immortality
- At Google Zeitgest 2013: A Conversation with Mark Kelly, featuring Gabby Giffords
- else 9.16: Start Making Sense
- The Best Platform for Incubation Is the Web
- else 9.9: We Got Yer Star Trek Right Here
- else 9.3: Staring at the Tiny Screens
August 2013
- Want to See How Detroit Is Coming Back?
- else 8.26: Getting a Little Too Comfortable with Technology
- Is US Culture Veering Toward The Dark and Deadpan?
- else 8.19: Why We Should Replace the Turing Test
- Thoughts on Ford’s OpenXC: In The Future, Brands With Open Data Will Win
- “Peanut Butter Cup Marketing” In A Few Minutes
- The debut of “else”: Surveillance Everywhere and the Technological Wild West
- Four Minutes on the Future of Marketing
- Great Content, Meet Great Targeting (And Reach)
July 2013
- Liquid Markets Win: On Boats, Planes and Automobiles
- An Afternoon at the Media Lab: Where The Lines Between Physical and Digital Are Permeable
- LinkedIn On A Roll
- The PRISMner’s Dilemma
- Fred Wilson and I In 18 Minutes
- A Social, Elastic Model for Paid Content
- Brand Pride
- Halfway Into 2013, How’re The Predictions Doing?
June 2013
- Hasta La Alta Vista, Baby.
- Excellent Content Marketing: Dear NSA…
- The Book Lives On
- Mary’s Annual Internet Trends
May 2013
- A Berkeley Commencement Speech, Some Years Ago…
- The Full First Day of CM Summit, In One Place
- Yahoo! And Tumblr: It’s About Display, Streams & Native at Scale
- Behind the Banner, A Visualization of the Adtech Ecosystem
- These Companies Are Denting the Universe In NY
- On Google Glass and OpenCo NYC
- Hold Hands or Die Apart
April 2013
- We’ve Seen This Movie Before…On Traffic of Good Intent
- The First 60 OpenCos in NYC, Visualized
- OpenCo Is Coming To NYC, But Only If You Support It: Please Help Us!
March 2013
- Can We Bridge Data to Humanity? We Best Talk About It.
- How I “Crack” My Inbox
- I’ve Turned Full Feeds Back On
- Who Owns The Right to Filter Your Feed?
February 2013
- On Coming Back to FMP
- An Apology To My RSS Readers – But I Had To Do It. (Updated)
- The iWatch: What I Hope Apple Actually Does (But Probably Won’t)
- That Guilty Pile of Outdated Technology
- When It’s This Easy To Take Someone’s Money…
- Reporters Need to Understand Advertising. But Should They Be Making It?
- The 2013 Summit Arrives: Bridging Data And Humanity
- An Embarrassment of Pitches
January 2013
- It’s Time To Call Out Fraud In The Adtech Ecosystem
- The 140 Character Video Is Six Seconds Long
- Portrait of Twitter As A Young Media Company
- Amazon is Amazin’ Me
- The Searchblog Social Front Page
- Twitter’s Makin’ Media
- Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search
- We Are (About to Be) As Gods. Can We Get Used To It?
- Phones! Now With Multitasking! Why Mobile Is About To Have Its Web Revolution.
- A Month In With The Nexus 4: Google Strengths Emerge
- Predictions 2013
- Predictions From Last Year: How I Did (2012 Edition)
2012 170
December 2012
- Retargeting Is Just Phase One
- With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. Why?
- For Microsoft, The Worm Turns Through Apple
- As Long As It’s Legal, Corporations Will Act Selfishly
- Another Thoughtful Personal Essay: Fragile
- Locked and Bloated
- Writing Every So Often: The Personal Essay Makes A Comeback
- One Less iPhone Purchased: Day One With The Nexus
November 2012
- Can The Future Be Perfect? It Can Certainly Be Better
- Must All Grasshoppers Die?
- Dave Pell on Facebook’s Gift to Itself
- Craig Mod on Subcompact Publishing.
- On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter
- A Week of Contemplation and Thanks
- In a Nutshell, The Android Problem: Totally Forked
- A Moment To Appreciate The Place Between
- Facebook Is Now Making Its Own Weather
- On Native and Programmatic
- What Should the Ads Be Like?
October 2012
- The Evolution of Display: Change Is Here, For Good
- A World Lit With Sensors and Clothed in Data
- Time To Begin, Again
- Super Sad True Love Story: A Review
- At Google Zeitgeist: Theoretical Physics and Astronauts, Unite!
- Help Me Stop HubAdverts Dot Com!
- OpenCoSF Storified
- On Data
- A Worthy Wine: Orin Swift Abstract
- Check Out The OpenCoSF Lineup
- Data Wildcatters on the Wild Swiss Range
- OpenCoSF – A New Kind of Event
September 2012
- The Facebook Ad Network Is Here
- Post Apple Rant, What Have We Learned? A Visit With A “Genius” Ain’t Enough
- Every Great Business Is An Argument (from 2008)
- Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?
- Tweets Belong To The User….And Words Are Complicated
- Bing Tries Harder, But For Me, It’s A Draw
- The Victorian Internet – The Technology That Started It All
August 2012
- What Is Search Now? Disjoined.
- Twitter Drops Other Shoe, Which You All Saw Coming, Right?
- The Future Is Cloudy
- A Show Of Hands Please…
- Catching Up on Life: Summer
- Signal:Chicago Is Back, And It’s All About The Data…
- Musings On “Streams” and the Future of Magazines
- The State of Digital Media: Passion, Goat Rodeos, and Unicorn Exits….
- Here We Go Again: The Gray Market in Twitter and Facebook
- The Power of Being There
July 2012
- Wine and Song
- Who’s On First? (A Modest Proposal To Solve The Problem with First- and Third-Party Marketing)
- If Google Were Really Evil…
- My, How the CMO Has Changed
- What We Lose When We Glorify “Cashless”
- First, Software Eats the World, Then, The Mirror World Emerges
- On Mayer, Yahoo!, and The (Other) Customer
- A Rare Treat: Midweek 20+ Miler
- Wines to Remember, July 2012
- The Nexus 7 and The Cloud Commit Conundrum: Google Wins (For Now)
- Will Our Industry Ever Innovate Like Morse? Probably Not.
- Year Zero: This Is What the Beach Was Made For
- Halfway Through The Year: How’re The Predictions Doing?
June 2012
- Google’s “Mute” Button: Why Didn’t I Think Of That? Oh, Wait…
- How Not To Post A Comment
- It’s Hard to Lay Fallow
- Ross to Bolinas via McCurdy
- When You’re Stuck, Go Out And Talk To People
- Four Letter Words
- Good Ride, Good Wine: The Debut of “Four Letter Words”
- Google’s Transparency Report: A Good And Troubling Thing
- Apple To Kill Ping, Add Facebook
- Do Not Track Is An Opportunity, Not a Threat
- In 1844, Morse Gets The Scoop, Then Tweets His Dinner
May 2012
- On Small, Intimate Data
- The Week in Wine, 5.26 Edition
- From Today’s Ride: 20 Miles O’ Smiles
- And Now, Your Moment of Zen
- Facebook’s Real Question: What’s the “Native Model”?
- An Appreciation of The “Home Phone”
- Epic Sunday Ride
- Wines From Last Week, 5.20 Edition
- Sea Smoke yum
- The Internet Big Five: Up $272 Billion in Six Months
- Penner Ash Willamette Pinot 2009
- New Feeds For Searchblog
- Get to Know Ross Levinsohn
- The Audacity of Diaspora
- Oh, MacROSTIE!
- Curtain Raiser: The CM Summit in NYC Next Week
- Two More Wines of the Week
- Larry Lessig on Facebook, Apple, and the Future of “Code”
- Jaron Lanier: Something Doesn’t Smell Right
- Championships, Milestones, and Alzheimers
- On Thneeds and the “Death of Display”
- The Week In Wine
April 2012
- Hello, SF
- Get Ready for Some Pictures, Folks
- Does the Pebble Cause a Ripple In Apple’s Waters?
- Direct Mail Ain’t Dead, Says Facebook
- A Coachella “Fail-ble”: Do We Hold Spectrum in Common?
- What Doesn’t the Valley Understand About Washington?
- On Larry Page’s Letter: Super Amazing Great Tremendous!
- Facebook Buys Instagram, Checks Off A Swath of 2012 Predictions In One Move
- Larry Page Makes His Case
- On The Future of The Web 2 Summit
- The Conversational Marketing Summit, Seventh Edition: A Searchblog (Deep) Discount
- If-Then and Antiquities of the Future
- Architectures of Control: Harvard, Facebook, and the Chicago School
March 2012
- China To Bloggers: Stop Talking Now. K Thanks Bye.
- Will Transparency Trump Secrecy In The Digital Age?
- The Yin and Yang of Audience
- CM Summit White Paper from 2007
- Rob Reid + Copyright Math = Hilarious
- LinkedIn, The Media Company?
- Who Controls Our Data? A Puzzle.
- On the State of Twitter Advertising: Adam Bain
- Why Hath Google Forsaken Us? A Meditation.
February 2012
- On The State of Google’s Advertising Business: Neal Mohan at Signal SF
- Facebook News (Livestream): The Brand Spaces Are Bigger, Bolder, More…Ad Like
- A Funny Thing Happened As I Was “Tracked”
- Obama’s Framework for “Consumer Data Privacy” And My “Data Bill of Rights”
- Apple Gets Into (App) Search
- WTF’s With the Silence, Battelle?
- A Sad State of Internet Affairs: The Journal on Google, Apple, and “Privacy”
- San Francisco In The Spring: Come To Signal
- The Ecstasy of Telegraphy
- China Hacking: Here We Go
- Nearly 90% of the World Uses Mobile Phones
- Is Our Republic Lost?
- Thinking Out Loud About Voice Search: What’s the Business Model?
- Yahoo Visualizes Its Content CORE
- Larry Page’s “Tidal Wave Moment”?
- Now All That’s Left Is To Write It
- Do You Think The US Government Is Monitoring Social Media?
- In Which I Officially Declare RSS Is Truly Alive And Well.
- It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For?
- The Facebook S1 as PDF, Should You Wish It
- Facebook Files, Initial Thoughts
January 2012
- Where Good Ideas Come From: A Tangled Bank
- What Happens When Sharing Is Turned Off? People Don’t Dance.
- RSS Update: Not Dead, But On The Watch List
- For Posterity
- Once Again, RSS Is Dead. But ONLY YOU Can Save It!
- Google+ Spreads to AdSense, Will It Spread to the Whole Web?
- The Future of War (From Jan., 1993 to the Present)
- Put Your Taproot Into the Independent Web
- The Singularity Is Weird
- Facebook Coalition To Google: Don’t Be Evil, Focus On The User
- On “The Corporation,” the Film
- Google+: Now Serving 90 Million. But…Where’s the Engagement Data!
- On The Problem of Money, Politics, and SOPA
- My Views On SOPA and PIPA
- Yet Another Ad Match Fail
- What Might A Facebook Search Engine Look Like?
- Our Google+ Conundrum
- It’s Not About Search Anymore, It’s About Deals
- Hitler Is Pissed About Google+
- Google Responds: No,That’s Not How Facebook Deal Went Down (Oh, And I Say: The Search Paradigm Is Broken)
- Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete?
- Twitter Statement on Google+ Integration with Google Search
- Search, Plus Your World, As Long As It’s Our World
- Predictions 2012: The Roundup
- Predictions 2012 #7: Shooting From The Hip
- Predictions 2012 #6: “The Corporation” Becomes A Central Societal Question Mark
- Predictions 2012 #5: A Big Year for M&A
- The Internet Big Five By Product Strength
- Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year
- Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network
- Searchblog 2011: The Year In Writing
- Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago
- Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media
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December 2011
- Happy 2012!
- 2011 Predictions: How Did I Do?
- Google Does Its Tenth Annual Zeitgeist
- TextPlus Adds Free Calling – Watch This Space
- On This Whole “Web Is Dead” Meme
- Neal Stephenson on Important Work
- Instrumenting People Into Location Services
- The Internet Big Five
November 2011
- “We need some angry nerds”
- Facebook and the FTC Announce A Deal, For Now
- The World In One Generation: Population Trends
- Top Searches of 2011 Start Coming In, and They Remain Vapid
- Help Us Shape The Signal Conferences in 2012
- Facebook and Commenting Systems: Still Some Open Questions
- The Problem and the Opportunity Of Mobile Advertising
- Whisperings of the Future Surround Us
- Kevin Kelly’s “What Technology Wants”
- You Are The Platform
- Brands as Publishers
- Video as Grammar: The Supercut
- What Role Government?
October 2011
- Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights
- Only Connect: Facebook, From The Eyes of an Old Newbie
- Slice – A Step Toward Metaservices That Matter
- The Web 2 Summit Playlist
- The Official Web 2 Summit Livestream
- A Big Issue: Taking Control of Your Own Identity and Data – Singly Founder Responds
- Me On Bloomberg: Talking Google, FM, Web 2 Summit
- Web 2: But Wait, There’s More (And More….) – Best Program Ever. Period.
- Help Me Interview Reid Hoffman, Founder, LinkedIn (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Help Me Interview the Founders of Quora (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Help Me Interview Ross Levinsohn, EVP, Yahoo (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- I Just Made a City…
- Help Me Interview Vic Gundotra, SVP, Google (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Help Me Interview James Gleick, Author, The Information (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- I Wish “Tapestry” Existed
- Help Me Interview Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Me, On The Book And More
- Help Me Interview Michael Roth, CEO of Interpublic Group (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Help Me Interview Mary Meeker of KPCB (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Help Me Interview Dennis Crowley, CEO, Foursquare (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Help Me Interview Michael Dell, CEO, Dell (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- FM Welcomes Lijit to the Family
- Help Me Interview Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Help Me Interview Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
- Help Me Interview John Donahoe, CEO, eBay (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
September 2011
- Help Me Interview Mark Pincus, CEO/Founder, Zynga
- Google = Google+
- Facebook As Storyteller
- The Web 2 Summit Data Layer Is Live
- Just In Case Ya Missed It, Google Is Pushing Google+, Hard
- The Future of Twitter Ads
- On Location, Brand, and Enterprise
- Twitter Makes a Statement
- Google As Content Company – A Trend Worth Watching
- The 2011 Web 2 Summit Program Is Live; My Highlights
- Maybe There Really Will Only Be Five Computers…
August 2011
- Physics of the Future, by Michio Kaku
- We Need An Identity Re-Aggregator (That We Control)
- With Tech, We Are Not Where We Want To Be (Or, This Cake Ain’t Baked)
- More on Twitter’s Great Opportunity/Problem
- The Future of The Internet (And How to Stop It) – A Dialog with Jonathan Zittrain Updating His 2008 Book
- Twitter and the Ultimate Algorithm: Signal Over Noise (With Major Business Model Implications)
- Who Am I, According to Google Ads? Who Am I, According to the Web? Who Do I Want to Be?
- Who Will Be Here One Generation From Now?
July 2011
- Looky Here, It’s Me, In an Ad, On Facebook! Is This Legal? Allowed? Who Knows?!
- “The Information” by James Gleick
- Google Google, Wait A Minute. This Is About Us, Isn’t It? Google (And Everyone Else) Is Just a Means to Our Ends…
- Google+: If, And, Then….Implications for Twitter and Tumblr
- Time For A New Software Economy
- Comments: Off
- Wanted: Write Hand
- Last Week’s Signal
- The World Is An Internet Startup Now
June 2011
- What We Hath Wrought: The Book
- The Internet Roars At Cannes Lions
- My, My, Time Does Fly
- We (Will) Live In A Small Big Town
- Web 2 Map: The Data Layer – Visualizing the Big Players in the Internet Economy
- Facebook’s Carolyn Everson: “We’re one percent done on our ad products.”
- Visa CMO Antonio Lucio: Our Business Is Digital, Period
- The in.imit.able will.i.am: Embracing Brand As An Artist
- Google’s Neal Mohan: A $200 Billion Opportunity
- Reimagining Yahoo!: Chief Product Officer Blake Irving
May 2011
- Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Declares Interdependence: The Internet Is Changing How We Think
- The Colorful Bill Nguyen: The Market Will Come
- The Swan Song of Mich Matthews, Outgoing Chief of Marketing at Microsoft
- Taking Twitter to the Next Level: President of Global Revenue Adam Bain
- On the Future of Media: Starcom MediaVest Group CEO Laura Desmond
- The Past Week In Signal, 5.23 Edition
- There Are No More “Dot Coms”
- What Makes Your Business Special?
- The Last Week in Signal
- Initial Web 2 Summit Lineup Announced
- Facebook to Take Lead in Display on Web? Hold On…
- Why Data Matters, Another Interesting Signal: Direction Requests
- Adventures In Keyword Ad Matching – The Osama Edition
- Building A New Map And I Need Your Help: What Are The Key Categories of Data In Today’s Network Economy?
- Last Weeks Worth of Signal
April 2011
- Set The Data Free, And Value Will Follow
- Announcing Web 2 Summit 2011: The Data Frame
- This Past Week’s Signals
- Plato On Facebook
- Book Review: In The Plex
- Preliminary Agenda Is Live For CM Summit, Sign Up Now, It Always Sells Out…
- The Next 100 Years: A Review
- The Past Week’s Signals
- A Funny Coincidence, or a Glimpse of the Future?
- Join Us For the Sixth Annual CM Summit in New York During Internet Week
- Go Forth And Invest
- Watch This Space: The Next Generation of “Social Networks” Won’t Look Like Facebook.
- Guy’s Enchantment
March 2011
- Google “Head End” Search Results: Ads as Content, Or…Just Ads?
- +1: Google Figures Out a Way To Leverage Search.
- Recent Signals
- Everbody Forgets About the Power of Intentional Declaration
- Why Color Matters: Augmented Reality And Nuanced Social Graphs May Finally Come of Age
- The Battles Continue
- Intel’s Visual Life Contest
- A Report Card on Web 2 and the App Economy
- The Obama Valley Dinner: POTUS Got the Seating Chart Wrong
- Pandora’s Facebook Box
- Signal Austin Conversation: Best Buy CTO and Geek Squad Founder Robert Stephens
- Signal Austin Conversation: Matt Mullenweg
- Signal Austin Conversation: Marissa Mayer
- The Signal Austin Livestream
- Signal and SXSW: What Should I Ask WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg?
- Austin Signal: The Program
- KSJO 92.3 – Good Product, Bad Marketing. A Case Study
- The Internet Interest Bubble
February 2011
- Live blogging Eric Schmidt at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting
- The Rise of Digital Plumage
- Do We Trust The Government With The Internet?
- Signal Roundup: 2.18.11
- Google, Social, and Facebook: One Ring Does Not Rule Them All
- Hey Apple, We’ve Got a Better Way
- This Is News? JC Penney and Link Farms
- Is Google Going After Conde Nast?! Nah.
- will.i.am at Signal LA
- Signal LA Livestream
- Signal LA: The Curtain Raiser – Tim and Arianna Open A Sold Out Show
- File Under: Metaservices, The Rise Of
- The Week’s Signal: 2.4.11
- The Call of the Filed
- The Next iPhone Test
- Apple Shows Its Colors?
January 2011
- Remember Googlezon?
- Last Week’s Signal Weekly: 1.21.2011
- The InterDependent Web
- Me On Google Change
- Whoa!!! Larry Page To Take Over As Google CEO
- Does Google Favor Its Own Services?
- Make My Baby – Is The Baby Facebook? Updated: No, It’s Myspace…
- The Signal Weekly: 1.14.2011
- No, In Fact, We Haven’t Seen This Movie Before
- Yahoo IPO vs. Facebook IPO
- What Everyone Seems to Miss In Facebook’s Private or Public Debate…
- Predictions 2011
- Maybe I Was Right…
- What … or Where… Are The Great Android Apps?
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December 2010
- Predictions 2010: How Did I Do?
- Signal LA Agenda Is Up
- The Year In Writing, 2010
- Thinking Out Loud: What’s Driving Groupon?
- We’ve (Still) Lost the Backlink, and I For One Want It Back.
- Google Instant Isn’t Opinion, Apparently?
- Signal, Curation, Discovery
- Google, China, Wikileaks: The Actual Cable
- Introducing FM’s Signal Conference Series
- Why Wouldn’t Google Mirror Wikileaks?
- Reader Henrik Writes…
- What You’ve Missed In Signal: Incl. RSS Feed for all you RSS Readers Out There
- Is This a Story?
- Social Editors and Super Nodes – An Appreciation of RSS
- Is RSS Really Dead?
- Google’s “Opinion” Sparks Interesting Dialog On Tying of Services to Search
- The Web 2 Debrief Video
- In Google’s Opinion….
November 2010
- Twitter’s Great Big Problem Is Its Massive Opportunity
- Groupon: That’s More Like It
- Groupon Is Worth More Than $2.5 Billion
- Not Proof, but Another Lead: WikiLeaks’ Latest Includes Google/China Tip
- The Final Web 2 Conversation: Evan Williams
- Fred Wilson and John Doerr: A Great Conversation On Financing
- FCC Chair Julius Genachowski: This Is Getting Very Real
- Carol Bartz at Web 2: Yahoo! In The Midst of Transition
- Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2 – A Maturing CEO
- Speaking with Yuri Milner – Business But No Politics
- Ari Emanuel of William Morris Endeavor – Fireworks Ensue
- Mark Pincus of Zynga – 325mm Players, and Counting
- Mary Meeker Does Her Thing…7th Edition, Better Than Ever
- Web 2 Conversation: Robin Li
- Web 2 Conversation: Eric Schmidt
- The Web 2 Summit Playlist, 2010 Version
- At Web 2 Summit…Here’s the LiveStream!
- Evan Williams at Web 2: What’s In A Platform?
October 2010
- All Brands Are Politicians
- Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen at Web 2: Apple? Who Needs ‘Em…
- Web 2 Conversation: RIM’s Jim Balsillie
- Web 2 Debrief for Media, Marketing Mavens: Please Join Us!
- Yuri Milner at Web 2: The Man Behind A Revolution in Finance?
- Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2: Third Time’s A Charm?
- Robin Li at Web 2: Bridging Valley and Chinese Business Cultures
- Carol Bartz at Web 2: Everybody Is Sticking Everybody Else In The Eye
- Identity and The Independent Web
- Eric Schmidt, Opening Coversation at Web 2: So Much To Discuss, So Little Time
- The Mac As Just Another i-Screen in an iWorld. NO THANKS.
- The Points of Control Map: Now an Acquisition Game – Check It Out
- Mayer to Location: Big.
- “Digital Birth” – By Age 2, 92% of Kids Have an “Online Record”
- Facebook Addresses Instrumentation & Trust – Goal: Win In the “Non Facebook Web”
- Stop It. Google Won’t Buy Twitter.
September 2010
- Last Week of Signal
- Happy Bday, Google
- Currency
- Comscore Search Results for August: Different from Nielsen
- The Web 2.0 Summit Program Is Live
- Nielsen: Bing Overtakes Yahoo In Search Share
- Catching Up On the Signal
- Google Instant: The Headlines and Quick Takes
- More Thoughts On Demand: A Referendum of Sorts on Google and Social
- Bing Targets Firefox, Chrome Users For IE Upgrade – But Not Safari
- It’s All The Web
- That Was Fast: TellApart Implements A Searchblog Suggestion
- Google and AOL Renew Pact
- Ping: “Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes” Except…
- blekko Explains Itself: Exclusive Video (Update: Exclusive Invite)
August 2010
- On Retargeting: Fix The Conversation
- Web 2 Summit Points of Control: The Map
- Gnar Gnar Epic Apple #FAIL
- The Week In Signal
- Is Google Objective?
- Finding a Yogurt Shop A Mile Away: I’m Not Feeling Lucky.
- AT&T Weighs In: Trust Us, We Know What You Want
- The Gap Reads The Gap Scenario
- No Quaero: Good Luck With That, China
- The Signal Week That Was
- Or Maybe It’s Really About (Google) TV…
- Second (Day) Thoughts on Google-Verizon Framework – Isn’t This All About Android?
- Google Has A History of Agonizing. Will This Be a Chapter, or A Conclusion?
- Skype Files for IPO – Is This a Trend?
- Demand Media Files To Go Public, First Impressions from the S-1
- Publishers, Marketers, and the Gap Scenario
- The Week In Signal
July 2010
- Maybe This Company Can Predict How Google Me Will Fare
- Signal Update
- CM Summit Sizzle Reel
- This Week In Signal
- What Means This, To “Go Google”!?
- What Would You Ask Fred Wilson?
- The Facebook App Economy: Revival Time?
- On Math, iPhones, Android, and the 100K Phone Gap
- We Are Capable of Many States
- Search, Foursquare, and Checking Into States of Mind
- Recent Signals
- On Facebook, Google, and Our Evolving Social Mores Online
- Is Yahoo Dead? I Don’t Think So. Who Else With This Scale Can Be Neutral?
June 2010
- Last Few Signals…
- Will Google Compete With Facebook? Er…It Already Is, Folks.
- Google Takes One More Step Away From China
- Google Has to Fix The App Store
- Is Apple’s iWorld “The Web”?
- A Slow Week Or So
- It’s Official – Apple Kicking Google Out of iWorld
- @CMSummit – My Presentation
- @CMSummit – Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Presentation
- CM Summit: Help Me Interview Amex CMO John Hayes
- Andrew writes…
- Short Thoughts, At D, On Apple Search
- Of Course Apple Is Going to Do Search.
- Steve Jobs at D: A Master…
- Is The iPad A Disappointment? Depends When You Sold Your AOL Stock.
May 2010
- Netflix On Its Market
- CM Summit: Help Me Interview Dick Costolo
- Five Years In One Place, An Appreciation
- Help Me Interview Hilary Schneider, EVP Yahoo!
- 68% of 85% is really 57.8%
- The ROI of iAds – A Lot of Unanswered Questions
- Fear Is A No No – Except at Night
- The CM Summit Is Coming, Get the App…
- Google to Apple: The Web Is the Platform; iTunes, Not So Much
- The Latest Signals, For All You RSS Junkies
- No no no! It’s not about geeky sh*t. It’s about the future of commerce!!!!
- Help Me Interview Omar Hamoui, CEO AdMob
- Help Me Interview Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman, The New York Times Co.
- Google’s New Mission? “To Organize the World’s information (Unless It Starts With “i”) …..”
- IAB: Record First Quarter for Internet Advertising
- Adobe: We Love Ya, Apple – But We Don’t Love What Ya Do.
- Recent Signals
- Help Me Interview Tim Armstrong at CM Summit
- Three Recent Signals
- The iAd: Steve Jobs Regifts The Mobile Marketing Experience
- Help Me Interview Tony Hsieh
- Help Me Interview Arianna Huffington
- Thursday’s Signal Up
- Google Steps Gingerly Toward Search As Application
- Do You Get the Signal?
- OneRiot Indexes Facebook Data
April 2010
- The Gap Scenario
- My HP Input Output Interview
- And Therein Lies Google’s Challenge
- Apple Makes Its Move to Become the Google of App World
- It’s Similar to Like
- Help BigThink Interview…Me!
- On Google’s Brand
- CM Summit NYC in June: Agenda Is Live
- Twitter’s “Public Interest Graph”
- An Open Letter to Apple Regarding The Company’s Approach to Conversation with Its Peers and Its Community
- Tynt Gets Funding, Searchblog Gets Tynt
- Funny: From Chirp, “I Don’t Get…”
- Twitter To Roll Out “Promoted Tweets”: Initial Thoughts (Developing)
- Is TweetUp Bill Gross’ Second Overture?
- A Note to Twitter Developers: Alas, It Was Ever So: Now, Add Value, Post Haste
- It’s MY Ecosystem. MINE MINE MINE
- IAB: Internet Ad Revenues Reach Record Quarterly High
- Foursquare – I Wish It Was Better For Me…
- Hooey
- Brands As Publishers – Part 2
- April Fools!
- Why I Like Working With Marketers
March 2010
- Apple Won’t Build a (Web) Search Engine
- Oh Looky! It’s Video of Bloody Jesus! (Nevermind the Facts)
- The iPad Needs The Web, but the Web Does Not Need the iPad
- Toward a New Understanding of Publishing (Part 1)
- You Say Debacle, I Say Debatable…
- Google’s New “Search Funnels” Belies What Google Really Knows…
- Google v. China? No, It’s Bigger Than That
- My Location Is A Box of Cereal
- Experiment to Freak Out Expedia and Hotels.com
- Tuesday Signal: Answer the Open Phone, Microsoft!
- Google Stops Censoring Results in China
- Monday’s Signal Posted..
- The 2010 Web2 Summit Theme: Points of Control
- Microsoft Got Hand(s)
- Me On Search
- Value Above the Level of the App
- Things I Want to Write….
- FM Signal Up
- The Signal – Instrumenting Our Social Lives
- FM Signal: Wired’s “iPad Demo”
- Friday Signal: Location Location Location
- Thursday Signal – Repeat After Me: Apps Are (Currently) Myopic (Or…We’ve Seen This Movie Before…)
- Video Chat on the Plane? Illegal? OK? Legal Gray Area?
- Announcing The Fifth Annual CM Summit: Theme and Initial Lineup
- Weds. Signal: Get Me a Mobile Strategy or You’re Fired!
- Quick Hit: Mobile Report From Weisel
- Tuesday Signal: The Internet Is A Human Right (And Spending Is Up. Yippee!)
- Database of Intentions Chart – Version 2, Updated for Commerce
- Monday Signal: Block Those Ads!
- The Database of Intentions Is Far Larger Than I Thought
- Friday Signal: Google Google Google!
- Thursday Signal: Google’s AdSense Cookie – The Untold Story
- 3.3.10 – Weds. Signal
- 3.02.10 Tuesday Signal
- 3.1.10 – The Signal
February 2010
- I Don’t Like The iPad Because…
- Friday Signal: The Web Gets Its Wisdom Teeth (We Hope)
- Thurs. Signal
- Weds. Signal – “Local-Mobile-RealTime”: Re-imagining Social
- Tuesday’s Signal – Notes from the IAB
- It’s Twitter!!!!!!!! (Yahoo + Twitter)
- Google’s Microsoft Moment? European Antitrust Review Looms
- Monday Signal
- Twitter Stats: This Is (The Start) Of What We Wanted
- The Catchup Signal
- Tuesday Signal
- Monday Signal: The Vacation Edition
- Friday Signal: What Marketers Want from Twitter Metrics
- Google Buys Human-driven Search Engine Aardvark: Will It Make It to the Main SERPS?
- The Thursday Signal: Is Google Losing Its Customer Focus?
- Another Ocean to Boil: Google May Take On ISPs
- Weds. Signal: What’s The Buzz, Google?
- The Tuesday Signal
- A Google Twitter Killer? Not Till Google Mutates
- The Monday Signal: Monday Morn. Advertising Quarterback
- Updated: Google to Air “Search Stories” Ad During Super Bowl…
- The Friday Signal: It’s The Platform, Not the Bowl
- Thursday Signal: Are You Checked In?
- Weds. Signal
- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine
- Tuesday Signal
- Monday Signal
January 2010
- The Friday Signal: Will Apple Flash Us, or Not?
- The Thursday Signal
- Google Rolling Out Social Search: But Does It Leverage Facebook?
- Why The Apple iPad Will Disappoint (The Obama Effect)
- The Weds. Signal
- The Tuesday Signal: Birth of Another Orifice
- The Monday Signal
- Search On: Google Does Pure Branded Advertising…
- Today’s Signal
- Twitter Finally Begins to Address It’s WTF Now Issue:
- Signal From Noise
- Google, The Software Brand
- Comscore Dec. Search Share: Bing Keeps Inching Forward
- The Evolving Search Interface: Mobile Drives Search As App
- An Apple Search Engine?
- The China Story
- Oh, the Humanity: The Database of Intentions At Twitter Is Empty (After Two Weeks)
- Google’s Tortured History With China
- Google’s Next Mountain to Climb: Customer Support
- Fred Dictates a Blog Post
- Privacy: Is Zuckerberg Misreading? Or Is This a Story at All?
- Search Getting Worse? What Did I Mean?!
- That’s TWO Ads On Google’s Homepage
- Google’s Spin: We’re Not Launching a Phone, We’re Launching…A New Web Model!
- Predictions 2010
2009 308
December 2009
- These Are A Few of My Favorite Posts – 2009 Edition
- Predictions 2009: How Did I Do?
- That’s an Ad.
- A Slew of Interesting Publishing Tidbits
- Anthropology Comes to Facebook
- Fast Flipping Off Amazon’s Kindle
- It’s Zeitgeist for YouTube, Too!
- Twitter Does Zeitgeist
- The Brewing Privacy Storm
- What’s Up?
- Google Is Failing More
- More on Facebook Public Data and Google Implications
- This is the Facebook Step We Expected: Default Public
- Congrats AOL
- Twitter is .. Developing
- Google’s Real Time Rolling Out
- Google Wants Your Small Biz To Barcode Itself
- AT&T Takes a Step In the Right Direction
- Google Embraces Twitter, Some More. In a Non Facebook Kinda Way.
- What Are The Conversion Rates for Google’s “First Click Free”?
- Help Grok Pivot, A Novel Approach to Search Interface
- Can Someone Please Do Annual Search Lists on Jan 1?
November 2009
- I Have A Kindle Now. But I Won’t Read A Book On It. Discuss.
- Just Give Me One Modal Dialog ….
- “WuzUp?”
- I Love It When…
- Thanks For Flying With Us. Please Give Us All Your Money.
- Why Did Google Buy AdMob?
- Hey Mr. Murdoch: It Doesn’t Have to Be Black and White
- Twitter Incorporates Retweeting (Beta Launch)
- A Step Toward Realizing the Data Bill of Rights Vision
- OK, What the Real Phone Map Should Be
- Twitter Lists
October 2009
- What “Tweet” Needs to Become: To Share a Moment
- Web 2 Summit: Microsoft’s Twitter / Bing Deal and Qi Lu
- Web 2 Summit: Evan Williams
- Web 2 – Sergey Stops By
- Google’s Twitter Announcement At Web 2
- Web 2 2009
- At Web 2
- Twitter Continues Flattening, But Is This A Real Measure
- Happy Happy Time In Tech Land
- Web 2: Help Me Interview Tim Armstrong
- Aardvark Launches Social Search With A Twist
- Sept. Search Share Report
- Web2: Help Me Interview Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen
- Ah, Irony
- Web 2: Help Me Interview Carly Fiorina
- Google Is Acting Like A Traditional Media Company
- Search Does That. Social Does This. Give Me A Reese’s Cup Please
- Web 2: Help Me Interview Jon Miller
- Web 2: Help Me Interview Sheryl Sandberg
- Please Stop The Chattering Teeth.
- Web 2: Help Me Interview Qi Lu
- On Facebook, Comments, and Implications
- Why Are Conversations (With the Right Person) So Much Better Than Search?
September 2009
- Web 2: Help Me Interview Carol Bartz
- Web 2: Help Me Interview Jeff Immelt
- Here We Go: Another Round of Us v. Them, Courtesy Them
- Google Google Google
- Help Me Interview Evan Williams, CEO Twitter
- SideWiki and Google’s Community Dilemma
- Briefly Noted
- Modest Share Gains for Bing Continue
- Help Me Interview Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast
- Google Goes Deeper Into Land of DOJ Woe
- Meanwhile, Google Attacks the Display Market
- Watch Out Google, Facebook Is Gaining in PPC
- On Complements and Showdowns and TweetSense
- The IPO Markets and the Internet: A Thaw’s A Comin’
- A Worthy Rant From Danny on Yahoo Search
- Adobe Acquires Omniture
- Twitter Traffic Flattening
- Omigili Figures Out How To Hack Google For Real Time Results
- Google Puts Another Stake in Open Ground
- Bing Gets Visual
- Web 2 Preview: DigitalGlobe: The World Is The Index
- Why I Love FM’s Ad Stamp
- Google News: A Payment System and A New Search Bar
- Not a Fun First Half for Adland
- Welcome to Publishing Waterloo, NYT and WSJ
- Search Frustration: It’s Still Hit Or Miss On Complex Decisions
- Yahoo’s New Search Plans: Out Bing Bing
- I Blew It On Facebook
August 2009
- A Preview: This Year’s Web 2 Program (Newly Added Speakers!)
- It’s CrowdFire and Outside Lands Time!
- Is Google Going After Mortgages? It Already Has.
- Yahoo’s New Search
- Give Me Your Data, Said the Spider to the Fly
- Don’t Be A Fan Platform Hater
- All Business Starts With A Community
- Social Media Is Important, The Video
- Search Trends
- What’s Up With Feedburner?
- On Using Search for Decisions
- Google Search Share Declines
- Caffeine: A Fundamental Rewrite of Google, A Shift to Real Time
- Tell Me This Ain’t Facebook, Er, Twitter, Er, Both.
- Early July Data: Twitter Growing, but Slowly
- Facebook Lite?
- Two Big News Events in Search: Google To Revise Its Engine, Facebook Launches Realtime
- Don’t Be A Player Platform Hater
- Bartz: Yahoo Was “Never a Search Company”. Me: Bullsh*t.
- Google Adds Sense To Maps
- Flickr Gets A SearchLift
- Apple: Is The Worm Turning?
- Schmidt Leaves Apple Board
- Yahoo Microsoft Deal Overview
- The FCC No Likey What Apple Did to Google, Either
July 2009
- Thinking About New Models for Search
- Questions On the Yahoo Bing Deal
- Yahoo and Microsoft Announce Deal
- New Twitter Homepage
- The Deal Is Done Between Yahoo and Microsoft, Sources Say
- Is Being In the Mobile Biz License to Ignore the Internet?
- Google MAKES Money on AOL Writeoff
- Will Yahoo Bing? Pay Attention to the Display Side
- Twistory 101: It’s All About Small Business
- Good Move, RIM: Warns Users of Spyware
- OMG! It’s A New Yahoo Homepage
- SIGIR This Week
- Can 20 folks Make Bing? Nah.
- Twitter Grows Again
- Vark Goes Twitter
- The Year’s Half Over. So How Are My Predictions Tracking?
- Bing Starts to Get Real (Time)
- Juxtaposition Fun
- It May Be Free, But It’s Sure As Hell Underwritten
June 2009
- And a NYT Profile of Aardvark..
- Profile of Google Lobbyist…
- When Value Is Created, Let It Be Curated At Scale
- Google v. Facebook? What We Learn from Twitter.
- Thoughts on Online Marketing
- A Wish List for Facebook Search
- Worth Noting: Search By Voice on Google Maps/Android
- Hunch
- Microsoft Goes After Click Fraudsters
- Mashable on a Tear
- Facebook’s Namespace Land Grab? Or Maybe…It’s Just Useful
- Everybody Dance
- Twitter Bumps Ceiling
- English’s Millionth Word: Web 2.0
- DOJ Headaches for Google continue
- But It’s Not Google
- Blind Search Site – Bing, Yahoo, Or Google?
- The Original Industry Standard
- CM Summit 09 Playlist
- Mad Ave. Blues
- Super Fresh
- “Better off if we’d never heard the word Microsoft”
May 2009
- At the CM Summit
- Twitter Search
- Liveblogging the Microsoft Search News
- Bing
- Twitter’s Continued Inflection: Time For Facebook Connect
- Real Time Search and Google: An Admission
- Wolfram Launches…
- As We Head Toward A More Conversational Interface, Can AdWords Keep Up?
- Google Makes Changes to Trademark Policy, Revenues Will Be Up…
- The Paid Search Share Slide
- Google’s Real Time, Squared Response
- Google Backs Into Being a Brand Advertiser on TV
- Earned Followers Are Better Than Junk Circulation
- Google = Twitter = Google
- Future of News Round Up
- Twitter’s View: Not For Sale
- Tweet Smell of Success
- Facebook Now Lets Third Party Apps Link Out…
- Yow. This Is What Happens When You Are Big. And…
- As It Inflects, Twitter Must Add Value to New Users, Faster
- The Bucket
- A Big Day For Twitter
April 2009
- More Google News
- Oh No – It’s the DOJ!
- Google The Publisher
- The Twitter Inflection
- On Facebook Opening Up
- Will Yahoo And Microsoft Just Do It? If So, How?
- News: Google Lets You Put Yourself Into Results For..Yourself
- The (News) Web Gets a Time Axis (Sort of)
- Testing…
- Outside Lands Lineup Announced!
- New SMB Post: Cultivate That Garden
- Down For A Count
- Early Morning Reading
- Twitter Search
- Google The Big Target
- Back When Juju Was Freely Shared…
- One Thing Google IS Doing With Twitter
- Help Me Interview Will Wright
- Breaking: Newscorp to Buy Twitter for $750mm in Cash
- A Good Idea: Goog’s VC Fund
March 2009
- Traveling
- That Which I’ve Missed While Paying Attention
- Google Lays Off More…
- The Conversational Interface
- Searchblog – Now with FB Connect
- New York CM Summit Lineup Posted, Registration Open
- Design and Google
- An “Undifferentiated slush of results”
- ExecTweets
- Comparing Twitter Growth to FBook, GOOG
- The Future of News: 14 Years Ago
- A Model for Metro Journalism? Check Out New West
- Do Not Erase!
- Another Reason to be Skeptical of “Analysts”
- Not News, But Certainly Interesting
- Cloudera
- AdWords On Picasa
- It’s Very Sorta Twitter (Facebook, That Is)
- Three Peer-Reviewed Takes On Armstrong and AOL
- Tim Armstrong To Lead AOL – Further Thoughts
- P&G Digital Hack Night – Moving the Conversation
- Google Selling History as Behavior, But I Like The Controls
- Can Google Find Its Voice?
- Watch the Aardvark
- Another Conversational Economy Milestone
- “Search Is A Pencil”
- Pretty Please, Give Me A Web Time Axis
- Happy Happy
- Pizza Joint Employs Conversational Jujitsu
- The Conversation Is Shifting
- Notable
- Get Horizontal
- Facebook Shows “What’s On Its Mind” – Twitter
- Google Gets Real Time Thanks to A Neat Hack
- For This Vanity Search, Google is Way More Real Time
- Seen In the Wild
- Eric on CNBC
- Poll: Google and Microblogging
- The World Is Tuning Into Twitter Search
- The Money Quotes
- Google, The Anti-Trust Case
- Will Google Reintroduce Microblogging?
- Neat: Yahoo Integrates Facebook Actions Into Search Results
- Flickr Does Video
- Kumo: New Microsoft Search
- What’s In A Name?
- Skittles: The Homepage is the Conversation
February 2009
- Snaptell
- How Much Is A Super Bowl Ad Worth? How About 50% Increase In Traffic?
- Google Joins Twitter, Crushes Yahoo’s Numbers
- Carol Speaks
- Ewwww. That’s Slimey.
- Lazy Webbing: Google Brand AdWord Roadblocks?
- Google Is Commercializing Google News. Sh*tstorm to Follow?
- CM Summit New York, Your Input and Reg Is Open
- Twitter = YouTube.
- IAB Conference Report
- Patch Funded by Google Exec
- Notable – Varney on Google
- Vacation…
- Help Me With A Poll?
- Yahoo Joins Twitter
- Twitter: 11%
- Slight Setback In Seas Simmered
- Just Too Rich…Google Buys A Paper Mill ….
- Wondering Out Loud: The AT&T Network
- SMX West Thursday Morning
- ContentSense
- Eye Tracking
- Rumblings of More Google Layoffs
- Google Latitude
- Yahoo Search Pad
- Oh, Ouch. “Livesearch.com”
- Kindle and Print
- Well, Sorta, Bob…
- Yahoo Wins This One
January 2009
- We Must Remove Pesky Humans From This Equation
- Don’t Spank the Cat (Spank the Cat, Baby)
- (Credit, Oil, IT, and) Paper Ain’t Free, So Don’t Waste It.
- Last Day for Web 2 Summit Early Bird
- Comcast and Tivo: The Model Is In Ads as Service
- Yahoo Beats Expectations
- Twitter and the Borg
- Google’s Repricing of Options
- The Easy Part
- eTech – The One to Go To
- Google Earnings – Good.
- Thinking Out Loud: FB Connect
- And Other Tidbits
- News of the Week: Online Down, Search Up
- Travelin’ on a Big Day
- Why No Twitter Search from the Big Guys?
- Humbly I Suggest…
- Ze Frank’s The Explicit
- Kudos to Google
- Omidyar and Twitter
- Google Also Is Closing Any Number of Other Projects…
- Google Lays Off Real Googlers
- Grease Is the Word
- On the New FCC Chief
- Yahoo’s New CEO is Carol Bartz
- Way Too Much Energy
- Dear Oyuncambazi: Please Stop Spamming This Site!
- The “Google” Of TV
- Blog 2.0 Realized
- On Alice, Tik Tok, Marketing, CES, and Finding The Ground
- More on The Future of Print and Journalism
- How About A Forecast Scorecard?
- Danny to Bush: Fix the Bomb (The GoogleBomb, That Is)
- Hirschorn on the End of The Times
- Display Boosts Search Performance
- Google’s AdWords: A “Grey Surveillance”?
- Notable…
- Biggest Day Ever
- Reader Ed Brenegar Writes…
- Predictions 2009