It is not very often that you get a chance to participate in building a business category.
I have been a digital citizen since the mid-1990’s when I joined Lycos. In my executive roles at Lycos I had a front row seat to the emergence of the Internet Search category. I also played a pioneering role [...]
Boston sports fans have nothing to complain about. In the last decade the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics have given us six championships and many runs in the playoffs. There is overwhelming sentiment with the Bruins as they are having their best season in many wiht a real team oriented approach to hockey. This era [...]
I am a Kindle Fan. I have posted about the Kindle often here. Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe even picked up on my enthusiasm for the Kindle in his weekly column a few months back.
I used to love my Kindle too…until my wife adopted it. Glad it is getting some good use.
One of my only [...]
This year marks the tenth year for the Nantucket Conference, which brings together leading technologists, entrepreneurs and investors each May. The goal has been to create a forum regarding innovation in the New England region. I can think of noone better to organize this for 2009 than Scott Kirsner who has been tracking and bringing [...]
Scott Kirsner of The Boston Globe featured my quick release of a blog post about Kindle eBooks availability on the Apple iPhone in todays edition of The Boston Globe. I am a big fan of both the iPhone and Kindle and was excited about that post. Check out the post here. Thanks Scott.
Elsa Dorfman is a well known photographer in Boston and New York. Ms. Dorfman is a long time contributor to the Photo.Net online community. Ms. Dorfman posted a very interesting article in The Boston Globe regarding Polaroid Cameras. As Elsa says these are the iPod’s of her generation. You can see Ms. Dorfman’s fine work at [...]
It has been over one years worth of work building a strategy, team, platform, operation and advertisers and now launch for GlobalPost.Com is here. Great name. Great team. Good luck.
It is great to see an ambitious consumer media venture founded and launched in Boston. GlobalPost.com launches Monday, January 12, covering the news of the world. GlobalPost.com is founded by news veterans Philip Balboni and Charles Sennott. Mr. Balboni is the former founder and CEO of New England Cable News (NECN). [...]
As reported in today’s Boston Globe, AAA says that gas prices have dropped to the lowest in five years. Average prices in Southern New England were reported to be $1.74/gallon.
At the end of last week JeffBennett.Org reported that prices had dropped 8% from the prior week in Metro Boston with a price of $1.69/gallon.
There are [...]
President-Elect Barrack Obama’s victory was the result of many factors but I really think he totally manhandled his rival Senator John McCain at fund raising, campaign organization and leveraging social media. In the 2008 Presidential race, President-Elect Obama leveraged all aspects of social media to not only raise funds, but he also leveraged [...]
