Open Letter to Madison Avenue

This past week the New York Times had an article about the convergence of contextual advertising and Smart phones. The potential for highly targeted advertising including the use of GPS is a trend I have been discussing in this blog for over a year.
 
The interesting angle in the NY Times piece , “Is [...]

Traditional Media Goes to School on New Media

The traditional content companies (NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, etc) have used the research, development and “trial and error” investments of many new media, web and mobile oriented companies to learn what works in digital content, commerce and advertising.   They have transitioned from fighting the term “new media”, to adapting it, and in many cases becoming [...]

The Technological Political Battlefield of 2012

 

As I read Jose Antonio Vargas‘ report in the Washington Post   titled “Republicans Seek to Fix Short-Sightedness” on my Blackberry, I realized that this story is an excellent bookend to my previous blog about the Obama Internet machine.
In his well thought out piece he links the Republican election disaster to their lack of technological savvy.  [...]

Wireless, Politics, the Economy and Hockey

Sometimes if you just take a moment for deeper observation at an event you can get a sense of what pundits spend a lifetime interpreting. Last night I took my youngest daughter to a Ranger game. They lost in overtime, 3-2 to the Edmonton Oilers, so I will not dwell too much on the fantastic [...]

Would you have invested in this start-up? Its made over $500M!

The World’s most successful E-Commerce Start-Up is planning a successful exit after just 24 months.
Imagine you are an Investor listening to this company’s pitch.
The date is early 2007. Decide if you would invest.
The business plan shows projections of almost $500M in revenue by 3Q2008.   They estimate in excess of 40M registered users with average revenue [...]