When Snap made headlines last year for surpassing Facebook’s video viewership, its achievement of the 10-billion-video-views-per-day milestone Read More
The increasing interplay of video and social media
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Wrap-Up of the inaugural SplashX LA on January 19, 2017
Six months ago, SplashX debuted in Oakland. On January 19, 2017, the LA inauguration of SplashX was launched. Read More
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5 Tools To Boost Social Engagement Of Your Content
So you have gained a huge pool of followers on the social page? But how do you keep Read More
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Think you like what you like? Think again
A funny thing happens when you lie to people: they tend to believe. Why shouldn’t they? They lie Read More
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Viral Loops of viral oops?
MessageMe announced recently that it had grown to one million users in a little over a week’s time. The revelation Read More
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Designing to reward our tribal sides
We are a species that depend on one another. Scientists theorize humans have specially adapted neurons that help us feel Read More
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Meeteor.com has shut down
TL;DR – Meeteor.com has shut down. Our Story We set out on a mission to define Social Networking Read More
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YouTube and CPA
Making money on YouTube is not very hard if you know what exactly to do and how to Read More
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How to Think About Marketing an Innovation
Innovation is all about value, and both internal communications and external marketing have a critical role to play Read More
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The network effect isn’t good enough….
Note: I’m pleased to have co-authored this post with Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for network businesses at Platformed.info. Follow Read More
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Escape from message hell
We are caught in an endless cycle of messaging hell and the pattern is always the same. First, Read More
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Never take your eyes off this hacker metric
If you’re like me, you’ve had enough of the Facebook IPO story. For tech entrepreneurs struggling to build stuff, the Read More
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Spotting the next Facebook
Facebook will sell shares Friday in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up Read More
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Spotting the Next Facebook
Today Facebook will sell shares in one of the biggest tech IPOs in history. New investors will gobble up the Read More
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Billion-dollar mind trick; How Instagram hooked users
Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives Read More