Last month I posted that Swaptree had acquired Swap.com. This is a big deal for a young company operating in a developing category. Our goal is to lead this category. What better name and domain for the company other than the category name itself. Today we made the switch of the domain and we updated [...]
I realize that taking a vacation is a time to “recreate” and “relax.” Spend time with family and friends. Slow down to reflect and recharge. I know all of this. I practice this.
Some of the ways that I accent this is listening to some good music. Actually reading the paper or a book…not just links [...]
Swapping featured in Entrepreneur’s Daily Dose today. As I always say, swapping is a very natural behavior. People have been swapping things for thousands of years. The evolution of the social web and matching technology enables the expansion of swapping on the Internet. Great to see Swaptree front and center in this post on Entrepreneur. [...]
Tom Fishburne chronicles all things about marketing through the lense of his illustrations. I find his work very interesting. The stories behind the illustrations are real. It is like a segment of the television show “The Office” but just about marketing. Tom has been on my blog roll since I started this blog.
Probably the most [...]
Swap.com has been nominated to speak @ SXSW 2011. SXSW is a great forum for thought leaders building cool technology based products.
I would be joined by some other leaders that are focused on the use of technology to enable collaborative consumption. Collaborative consumption is an important movement to help all of us make the most [...]
Growing up I often heard lessons learned from The Great Depression. It had a very big impact on the psyche and lives of all that lived through that troubled time.
We are now living through what has been called The Great Recession. We are still in it. We are all relieved for some stability that has [...]
A couple of years ago I got introduced to this new web site called DailyGrommet. The products were interesting. The way they were telling the story about the products was cool too wtih video most times featuring the inventor/developer of the product. As I looked more deeply the integration with social media was very compelling [...]
We all have things that we “like.” Might be a restaurant, could be a favorite pair of shoes or a certain flavor of ice cream at your local creamery; the list could go on and on. I have always been interested in understanding what people “like” – we can learn a lot about each other that [...]
