Recently the TV critic of the St. Petersburg Times asked for my thoughts about the migration of celebrities to Twitter over the past few months. Will it inevitably dumb down the service? Bring it into the mainstream? Make us want to move on to the Next Big Thing? Ashton Kutcher is closing in on 2 […]
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Introducing Traveling Geeks London
One reason I’ve been overstretched for many months is that I’ve been working since last August as the (unpaid) chief organizer of the second Traveling Geeks expedition to explore cutting-edge technologies in a hotbed of innovation. Last spring it was Israel. This time around: London! On Sunday we launched the TravelingGeeks.com website using WordPress, and […]
BzzScapes: Passionate fans connect with brands
Today Boston-based word-of-mouth marketing firm BzzAgent takes the wrapping off a very interesting new venture: BzzScapes. Here’s my initial impression, after a 20-minute phone call Friday with BzzAgent founder and CEO Dave Balter (pictured at right): A “brands community” was a long time in coming, and I’m glad to see that BzzAgent has incorporated some […]
UK startups suss out Silicon Valley
Web Mission: UK startups come to Silicon Valley from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Oli Barrett, co-founder of Web Mission, talks about the group of 20 small startups from the United Kingdom that recently visited Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, and what the participants took away from the trip. The 7-minute interview was […]
Webinar on social networks and the news
I‘m flying to the venerable Poynter Institute — journalism’s high church — to give an online Webinar titled, Social Networks: Engaging Users With News, part of a 10-week class for newspaper editors being put on by the Knight Digital Media Center. Although the newspaper folks get the Webinar as part of their curriculum, it’s also […]