THURSDAY (4/3): Join me live on the Squawk Box

April 1, 2008

I’ll be substitute hosting for Alec Saunders for Thursday’s Squawk Box (April 3rd) at 11am Eastern/8am Pacific. We do the call completely through Facebook using the Free Conference Calling application. You’ll need to install that first to join in on the show. Our guest is Sam Levin, the on-air/podcast host/technologist for Cool Mac/Tech Picks, Inside […]

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VIDEO: Pitching GirlsGoneGeek.tv

April 1, 2008

Ran into Liana Lehua tonight at a post conference mixer in San Francisco. Liana is the co-producer and co-host of GirlsGoneGeek.tv. She gives a great elevator pitch as to why you and I should listen and watch her show.

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If big news about your company breaks the day before you speak at an event, be prepared to talk about it

March 26, 2008

I ran into Julie Blaustein of Jambase at the Snap 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It’s a conference about monetizing social media applications. Julie had a funny comment about the Bebo representative that spoke on one of the panels.

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VIDEO: Audience shakes macaroni boxes at Purim

March 21, 2008

Last night I hosted the Purim Follies at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco. The show is a silly variety show I host every year for the community. Purim, for those of you who don’t know, is a fun Jewish holiday where people dress up in costume and participate in the reading of the Megillah. It’s […]

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VIDEO: Jeff Pulver on the death of video search

March 20, 2008

Jeff Pulver, the most overly excited human being I know, started talking about what he believes to be the death of video search. He argues it’s all about discovery. I agree there’s a lot of discovery in video search, but there’s still search. He also used this video to plug his new venture PrimeTimeRewindTV, a […]

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VIDEO: Jeff Pulver on bringing the social Web to real life

March 20, 2008

Went to Jeff Pulver’s breakfast today and he had us all play a game where we wrote little notes on stickers and tagged each other. By the end of the morning we were all “wearing” what others had tagged us.

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VIDEO: Wi-Fi should be built onto every mobile device

March 20, 2008

Ran into Matthew Snyder of ADObjects last night at a pre-party for the Under the Radar conference. We got to talking about Wi-Fi on handsets and how he thinks it’s going to be ubiquitous. I don’t think carriers are going to allow it. That was our debate. Make sure you also catch my video with […]

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VIDEO: Using Topix to connect people in your locale

March 20, 2008

Last night I went to a pre-party for the Under the Radar conference. I met Amy Dalton of Topix, a service that allows you to create microsites for discussions on any topic. I was not too surprised to find out that the most popular microsites are on very very local news. Here’s Amy’s response. BTW, […]

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VIDEO: David Meerman Scott on promoting through new media

March 20, 2008

Last night I had dinner with David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR. It’s the top selling marketing book right now and he travels all over the world giving his one day seminars on the subject. Through my browsing online, we met virtually, connected via Twitter and after his Twitter […]

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Susan can't cope with Daylight Savings

March 18, 2008

Had coffee with my friend Susan today and she was revealing her inability to cope with Daylight Savings time. And here’s a bit my comic friend Robert Mac does about Daylight Savings time.

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