A historical collection of our writing.
“What we’re about to tell you is so shocking . . .. . . we ask that you please be seated before reading on.There once was a time when “home entertainment system” meant “jigsaw puzzle” and “interactive experience” meant “wedgie.”Honest to Pete.Not yet chained to their high-tech toys, bored kids […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Attending Mashup Camp this week, really stimulating bunch of people and conversations. Much to digest, but two things standout:– Jon Aizen and Eran Shir of Dapper, smart guys with a wild technology to extract content, or create an API in essence, from any web site. Nice guys too. I think this could […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og:So far we’ve predominantly been discovering better ways of representing standard course materials on webpages. This corresponds to the first phase of a new form of media: that of a new way to do old things. “Cell phones are like landlines without cords.” At some point a […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Dave Morgan (via Andy Monfried):We have unique consumer insights and can tell advertisers and their agencies valuable things about their audiences and their campaigns and their products and services–things that they didn’t know, and need to know. This can help them reach consumers in places that […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Sramana Mitra:I would submit, that Yahoo hardly needs to do anything drastic, except, that it needs to reorganize its entire portfolio into Segments and Lifestyles, and align the 4Cs of each segment, so that the people interested in advertising to a particular segment can reach the community in a […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Andy Monfried writes that that best businesses are those that solve a customer’s pain. Without that pain, it’s hard to build a solid and long lasting business that makes money.Sometimes things that are really cool, technically innovative indeed, do not have a focused and clear way of making […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
