Darren Herman
Marketing, Media, and Technology Conversations
Category: Technology

For those note familiar with Ohours, it’s my friend Nate‘s new experiment with helping to connect people looking to network and connect with other interesting people.  He also coded it from start to finish as his working education to learning programming.  I thought I’d try it. I held my first Ohours day on Friday, January 7. [...]

Image via CrunchBase It’s very rare that I have time to web surf and pop onto random websites and consume whatever is there.  24 hours just is not enough for me at this point in my life and so I need the best possible filtering agents to help me consume/optimize my time online. What I [...]

I’ve written a bunch of posts on this blog in 2010.   Not all are my favorites but below, I’ve highlighted the ones that are.  You can find a list of all-time favorite posts here ranging back to 2006. Organizational Behavior The Power of the Team Big Companies Can be Fun and Educating Too Data, [...]

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Jon Borthwick (@borthwick) penned a piece for TechCrunch this morning called Neutrality or Bust.   This followed a piece by friend and fellow investor Brad Burnham (@bradUSV) entitled Internet Access Should Be Application Agnostic. While Net Neutrality has been talked about for years, it’s now getting a lot of [...]

Image by Yaisog Bonegnasher via Flickr I’ve been thinking about this blog post for a while and finally sitting down to write it.  It’s exactly as the headline sounds… except it’s not about my relationship with my wife, but about my relationship with my mobile phone. I have an Apple iPhone 4 and have had [...]

I’m going to play contrarian for a post.  There is so much talk right now of the angel investment scene going bananas from venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, and even lolcats.  I agree that it’s going bananas, but where I don’t agree with many people (and many people who I respect) is that [...]

As most of you know, I’m a huge fantasy football junkie.  I spend a disproportionate amount of my time on Sunday mornings getting my lineups ready based on research I’ve done during the week thru various forms:  XM Radio Fantasy Football Channel, FFLibrarian, Rotowire (Subscription), The Huddle (Subscription), and even simply talking to players. I stumbled across [...]

One of the most amazing things about starting a business is being able to provide career opportunities for people at all stages of their life.  I’ve listed a few opportunities below and if  you or someone you know is interested in one of these, please do not hesitate to reach out.  The company is Varick [...]

Using data to make better business decisions is nothing new but since 2008, it’s been a very hot topic.  It’s been covered in almost every issue of Advertising Age, a whole new web destination now exists: AdExchanger, and agencies spun up new trading desks that are essentially high powered SWAT teams that combine rich data-sets with media for [...]

Today’s ad exchange landscape is fairly complex but most people know who the big players are:  Google’s AdX, Yahoo!’s RMX, Pubmatic, Adnexus, Admeld’s MeldX, Adsdaq, Adbrite, and maybe, Microsoft AdECN. With the majority of the above players including the big two (AdX, RMX), there is a major conflict.  They also sell media. It’s like the [...]