Applications are what drive computers, smart phones and platforms. This is not a new phenomena. When I started my career selling for Wang…our customers wanted our computers to power their word processing and increasingly other applications that were developed on the Wang hardware platform.
The Apple iPhone is a remarkable success. The form factor and design [...]
Two companies on my resume made history with television ads. Wang was one of the first computer companies to utilize television ads to build it’s brand. Years later, Lycos leveraged television ads to bolster it’s brand building program distinguishing itself as one of the only Internet players of that time to utilize television ads.
Wang strengthened [...]
ReadWrite Start was covering the TechStars Investor Day in Silicon Valley today. TechStars showcased thirteen companies that completed the incubator/boot camp in Boston and Boulder. My favorite TechStars venture was Oneforty. ReadWrite lauded OneForty in their blog today:
“This service is best described as “Twitter’s app store”. ReadWriteWeb covered the company’s funding announcement just 15 days [...]
Twitter has taken the world by storm and really transformed one-to-many communication. Twitter has allowed you to inform your friends what you are doing. Twitter has allowed traveling food trucks to let their loyal followers where they will set up shop. Twitter has allowed teachers to connect to their students for collaborative projects. Twitter has [...]
Last night was the Investor Night for the nine start ups that endured the Tech Stars boot camp this Summer in Cambridge. Tech Stars is an innovative program that was founded by David Cohen and Brad Feld out in Boulder, Colorado. A small number of ventures get seed funding, office space, counsel from a community [...]
There is a fundamental shift occurring in the way we pursue marketing. Gone are the days that a cool 30-second television spot or nifty jingle on the radio would monopolize a companies marketing program. These remain brand building channels but it is not possible to drive efficient action from these channels or campaigns…a visit to [...]
Marketing in this social media era requires alot more than just joining Facebook or Twitter. We actually have to listen and engage with our customers. This Tom Fishburne comic is classic. I think there are thousands of LugNut firms out there. Get some help. Call HubSpot to build an inbound marketing program!
Flickr has released a new feature that allows its users to post photos on Twitter…I say Yahoo!
Flickr account holders can share their images in Twitter directly using custom Flic.kr URL.
Images or videos can be also shared via Mobile by sending it to a custom 2Twitter email address.
This has been one of the much demanded features [...]
We live in an era of rapid technological advancement for computing power, storage capacity, application development, proliferation of wireless networking, digitizing and indexing of what appears to be all information, and so much more. All of these developments are bringing the cost of computing down. These developments are enabling the advancement of complex research never [...]
We have witnessed many events in the last year that were captured by a Twitter user and then shared and distributed around the ecosystem. I have always been struck by this. Twitter is a real time communication platform where one can broadcast to many followers who can then retweet and then you have a huge [...]
