(photo was taken from a small yogurt shop in Santa Cruz) When I say critics I mean customers, users, clients, bloggers, etc. I mean anyone that uses your product or your service; how are you getting feedback from them? If you offer a product or
Just found out there was an earthquake in southern california measuring 5.8. At first I wasn’t quite sure what was going on and I couldn’t find much information on the web, so I turned to twitter. Within a few seconds of asking around I received
Those of you familiar with advertising may be familiar with the rule of 3. This rule states that in order for a consumer to actively think about purchasing your product or service you have to hit them with the advertisement 3 different times. For example
I recently saw the film Atonement, the story of little girl who sees something she doesn’t understand. By not understanding what she saw and reporting it to authorities she effectively ruins the lives of a couple. As she grows up she realizes the mistake she
Cuil has been a stealth search engine for quite some time; comprised of a few ex-Googlers, the new search engine is supposed to deliver the most relevant results and is supposed to run more efficiently on the back end. There are a lot of things
As many of you know, Jason Calacanis recently threw in the blogging towel and decided to limit his conversations to 750 newsletter subscribers. I know several people were not able to sign up for his newsletter (don’t even know if it’s still available), so I
A couple of interesting things have come out of Google recently. The first is that Google announced they are now processing over 1 trillion Urls! That’s a lot of web pages. The main problem that Google and the other search engines are going to continuously
Not too long ago I wrote about Randy Pausch and how he has changed the life of millions of people; it is with a heavy heart that I say, Randy has died today. Randy has made amazing contributions to Carnegie Mellon and more importantly has
photo credit $ydney 100 years ago if you were to show someone an iphone you would be considered some sort of mystical being or god (even though being the only one in the world with an iphone is not that practical). Today you show someone
It’s not always easy to reach your target audience and this is true regardless of what market you are in. Sometimes you have to go through several channels before you can reach the decision maker and the process can be time consuming and tedious. Even
