Meet Ken Jurina, the CEO of Epiar. I met him in Vegas, at Pubcon 2009, and interviewed him for the NVI blog. I also got to hang out with him a bit the night before this was shot. Ken is truly a fun loving guy, and I think we all had a good time. While [...]
So last week I was down at SMX East 2009 in NYC. I had a blast, both during business hours and afterwards. During business hours, though, I was blogging and video blogging for NVI. Well, of all the video interviews I did, here’s the one I enjoyed doing the most — and I’m not even [...]
I just got back from SMX East 2009. It was a helluva trip. I got to meet a lot of new people, and I got to see a lot of old friends. One of the new people I met was Tamar Weinberg. In addition to being just an overall internet bad-ass, Tamar also wrote a [...]
The only real reason that Yahoo! remains to be relevant is Flickr. Now, by relevant, I don’t mean profitable, long-term viable, or responsible for x-thousands of jobs. I mean only that “if it was gone, people would miss it.” Flickr is the only real part of the Yahoo! portfolio that really gets it. And it [...]
I shot this back in November when Michael Gray helped me with some PageRank problems. Shortly after shooting the video, the problems inexplicably re-occured, so I put off on posting the vid. Since then, however, Google did another PageRank update, and my own PageRank was almost fully restored (to a 4). I am confident that [...]
So Chris Brogan just finished reading Branding is for Cattle, and he highlighted couple of points made by the author: The first was that money spent on marketing should be money spent on shifting a buyer’s behavior closer towards buying. [...] [and] marketing strategies that don’t include a heavy element of search won’t work well [...]
When you work in online marketing, it’s kind of hard to not see Google as the end-all of the internet that’s even capable of killing democracy. In reality, though, they’re just another company who is completely dependent on laws and an economic system that can be changed (or even replaced) by the prevailing powers that [...]
Techcrunch posted an interview with Google CEO Eric Scmidt, and Eric tells us what he thinks about being a one-trick pony. Q: The biggest knock against Google is that it is a one-product company. how do you respond to that? Schmidt: Google is a one-product company. It is called Google. We think about features, not [...]