Our fantastic product and project managers need a new teammate. The job is in the Jerusalem office of Answers.com. [We also need a New York based Director of Community and some Jerusalem based Engineers. See our jobs page for more details.] Bad news: you’d see me every day. Good news: everybody else is fantastic. We […]
Rand Fishkin started a nice debate when he attacked the old canard “For SEO: Design for Users not Search Engines.” Rand blasted that as terrible advice. Search Engine Land attacked this twice: Danny Sullivan took Rand on in the comments section, and Jill Whalen blasted him in her weekly column, saying that Rand’s piece “could […]
Grading what Jason Calacanis now says was the final TechCrunh50 Conference. Location: C. The hotel they were pushing was a mile and a half away. Much of the area between the conference center and the hotel was pretty deserted. Tried to meet someone at the Starbucks, but found it closed at 7. Staff: A+. Special […]
Entrepreneurs, Product Managers and other otherwise intelligent people often get distracted by their ambition. Everything from Disney to these Out of the Box management (I mean leadership) books keep hitting you with hyperbole about dreaming big. Which is only OK if you also have the discipline to think and act small. Take Google. They have […]
In a few seconds last night I turned from a Toshiba fan to an enemy. Was I overreacting? Definitely. Is this an unusual reaction? No. “Toshiba says: ‘No matter what’ … unique guarantee on all laptops for free” No matter what* * Terms and conditions apply from Toshiba’s site “No matter what, terms and conditions […]
First let me admit that I didn’t consider myself a fan of Seth Godin. Maybe not his fault, but I was just annoyed by a bunch of Godin groupies that I felt over-simplified his ideas. Maybe it was all in my mind, but I felt I kept hearing Godin groupies telling me to think outside […]
I’ve really been enjoying Seth Godin’s blog. But boy did he cheat in his post Malcolm is Wrong. “I’ve never written those three words before, but he’s never disagreed with Chris Anderson before, so there you go.” Cute beginning for a post. “Free is the name of Chris’s new book, and it’s going to be […]
My wife and I are amusement park addicts. We were at Disneyland Hong Kong on Thursday. Beautiful. Magical. The next day we went to Ocean Park. Most things about Ocean Park are better than Disney. More and better rides. Unbelieavable view. Great animal exhibits and shows. Imagine Sea World built on the edge of a […]
Just spent a great day in Hong Kong Disneyland. Judging by many of the kids I was watching, Disney may be, as they claim, the happiest place on Earth. What to learn: Disney is the master at execution. Whenever I’m at a different amusement park I think of how Disney would have less downtime loading […]
Twitter CEO Biz Stone (great name) is the latest to play the we don’t need no stinkin’ ads game. “There are a few reasons why we’re not pursuing advertising — one is it’s just not quite as interesting to us” — Twitter CEO Biz Stone, Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue I love that. […]