Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Today I saw an advertisement for The Gilmartin Group, a San Mateo real estate company, that made my head turn. The voiceover began with: “Negative media confusion has created a buying opportunity…” and went on unconvincingly about how this is the best time to buy real estate yada yada yada, you could almost smell the [...]
The Aston Martin due to be used by James Bond in the latest film about the secret agent has been crashed into Italy’s Lake Garda. [From James Bond's Aston Martin crashes into lake - Telegraph] I just knew it was a mistake to let Q retire, they should have put him in that room with [...]
I wrote about this last week, studying vertical ad networks has been really eye opening for me. It’s the long tail in advertising… The improved technology has helped. Ad networks once served ads to pages where no advertiser wanted to be, like pages that get few hits or those with controversial content. Now, though, many [...]
The cause of hunger in the world is not a lack of food but poverty. Poverty is a consequence of dysfunctional economies suffering under corruption, dictatorships, and fascism. The same factors that contribute to poverty also contribute to global insecurity that drives up energy prices. You want to drive down food prices? Then create conditions [...]
Congratulations to the entire RWW team, they collectively author one of the best new media sites covering technology. Sean Ammirati was over to our house for dinner on Saturday night and we were talking about the evolution of blogs to fully featured new media sites, RWW being a great example of this. What is interesting [...]
And I thought it was just a slow weekend in Twitterville… interestingly, I was getting Twitter updates in Alert Thingy via FriendFeed, not sure why it worked there but not in other Twitter clients or their own web interface. Siegler’s comments about service status updates is really customer service 101 for companies like Twitter. I [...]