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The world is atwitter about Tumblr’s big exit to Yahoo!, and from what I can tell it seems this one is going to really happen (ATD is covering it well). There are plenty of smart and appropriate takes on why this move makes sense (see GigaOm ) but I think a lot of it boils down to the...
I’ve been a bit slow to update this site lately, as my return to Federated Media, and preparation for the CM Summit and OpenCo NYC , have pretty much eaten up all my time lately. But I did want to repost a few things I have written elsewhere, starting with this article in Ad Age , wri...
(image ) Back in 2005 I whipped off a post with a title that has recently become relevant again – “Traffic of Good Intent .” That post keyed off a major issue in the burgeoning search industry – click fraud. In the early days of search, click fraud was a huge problem (that link is fro...
Whenever I hear a friend or colleague complain about how their email inbox is “out of control” I take the opportunity to toss out a humblebrag: I never go to sleep before getting my inbox down to ten or fewer messages. Every so often, I even get it to zero. Like many of you, I use my ...
(image ) Last week I was in Salt Lake City for the Adobe Summit , on a stage the size of a parking lot. After some opening remarks about how the world is increasingly lit with data, I brought out Adam Bain, President of Global Revenue for Twitter. (He Vined it, natch .) Five thousand ...
Can We Bridge Data to Humanity? We Best Talk About It. By jbat - March 25, 2013 Tweet The agenda for our seventh annual CM Summit is live. And it rocks. You can read all about it here . I am really looking forward to this conversation, mainly due to the quality of the folks who are co...
Last year I predicted that Twitter would become a media company. However, I focused mainly on the new “Discover ” functionality, and I probably should have gone a lot further. In this piece, I intend to. So I’ll start with this: 2013 will be the year Twitter starts to create, curate, ...
A sample Graph Search result for the query “friends photos before 1999.” By now the news is sweeping across the blogosophere and into the mainstream press: Facebook is doing Search! Well, not so fast. Facebook is not doing search, at least not search Google-style. However, the world’s...
