Archive for 2010

ResumeGal Deal Hunt at SXSWi powered by Stickybits

For those who are unfamiliar, my wife runs the website, ResumeGal.com.  ResumeGal was created when she left the corporate HR world and decided to stay home to take care of our child and wanted to still consult with people who needed resume/HR help and coaching.
I’m trying an experiment down here in Austin to post 5 [...]

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SXSW Opening Morning Thoughts

I’m writing this post about 2.5 hours before the first panel/session kicks off for SXSW 2010.  For those who are not familiar with SXSW, it’s a conference split into three areas: Interactive, Film, and Music.  I’m only down for the first few days of Interactive but in previous years, I’ve participated in the music portion [...]

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SXSWi 2010

I’m heading down to SXSWi on Thursday and am excited to go.  It seems as though most of the NYC entrepreneurial scene will be down there so it’ll be the same faces in a different setting (way better BBQ, sorry @lazerow re: Hill Country).
I created my initial schedule and have made it public – so [...]

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An Analog 72 Hours

For the past 72 hours, I’ve been forced offline due to the powerful storm that ripped across the Northeast.   For those who are writing this off as just another snow storm, it might have been in your neck of the woods but where my family is located, we were hit with over 30″ of [...]

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Lessons of the dot com shakeout – a decade later

If you’ve been around me long enough, you’ll hear me either say “history repeats itself” or “it’s the same cupcake with different sprinkles.”  With many of web 2.0’s kids not around during the boom and bust of web 1.0, I highly recommend reading this post and keeping it in mind while entrepreneuring.
The most important lesson [...]

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The Early Days of Silicon Alley – Some Random Quotes

I’m in the middle of doing some research for a blog posting I’d like to write this weekend and came across some articles written about my favorite zine of the 90s – Silicon Alley Reporter.  For those unfamiliar with SAR, it was the newsletter/magazine that the entire trade read and helped fuel much of the [...]

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ESPN Will Lead Live TV into the Next Decade

It’s a bold statement in the title, but I believe that the only traditional television programming to exist in the future are based around live events.  Unless Ticketmaster/Livenation create a live concert channel which I would assume is not out of the realm of possibilities, I think ESPN and it’s associated brothers/sister channels will lead [...]

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Super Bowl Conversation Data – Social Media Style

@kevinweil, a member of the analytics team at Twitter updated the corporate blog with a post entitled Super Data.  If you are a data/football nut, go check it out.
For those who do not want to click over to his post, it basically overlays tweets about the game (football related) to tweets about the commercials (ad [...]

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1990s vs. 2010s in Marketing Technology

To preface, this post was inspired by a conversation I was having with Greg Hills, a colleague of mine at Varick Media Management.
When looking at the impact that the web/Internet had on advertising, I think that one could easily argue that from the 90s through today, technological innovation led where marketing/advertising dollars would follow.   [...]

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Etiquette In An Increasingly Connected World

I think the most devalued word in the past decade was the word, “friend.”
I’m just another geek living in this world so I have no business enforcing my thoughts on Etiquette but since I think I was raised well (I’d like to think) and I’d like my son to be raised well, I’ll publicly share my thoughts. [...]

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