Darren Herman

Imagine if the web didn’t have to live in the browser.  In many ways, we are experiencing that today (i.e. Foursquare or Tweetdeck) but what if we put it onto the desktop?
For those unfamiliar with RIA or “Rich Internet Applications,” they can be defined here:
Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are web applications that have most of [...]

Dear Ms. Internet,
As someone who has spent 8+ hours a day with you over the past 10 years, both for professional and personal needs, I have to say that having a long term relationship with you is challenging at best and you are starting to get a reputation for your celebrity-length relationships.
You are young and [...]

For those of you who do not know me too well, I’m a huge fan of the Dave Matthews Band.  I’ve been to more shows than I can reasonably count, have gigabytes of their live shows, my living room has a framed DMB art collection, and my son is aptly named David Matthew Herman.
For those [...]

Holiday shopping mayhem used to begin on Black Friday.  Many of us all have our own crazy shopping stories and there are even some YouTube videos of people filming their Black Friday shopping experiences.  For retailers, this marked the official date to begin holiday displays and holiday discounts and for American consumers, it was the [...]

I’m taking a cue from Fred Wilson on how he crowdsourced his Web 2.0 Keynote presentation.  The wisdom of all of you are much smarter than myself, so why not work together on this upcoming presentation.  What presentation you might ask?
Announced today, I am the keynote speaker at the Admonsters Ad Ops Forum on December [...]

I spent last Thursday afternoon and all day on Friday up at my alma mater, Skidmore College.  The reason I went up was to attend a few meetings and to give a presentation to their Marketing/Advertising and Entrepreneurship classes.  The point of this post is less about the presentation but more about my lunch afterward [...]