PubCon was great. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines William Leake: 23% of adults have cursed at their phone after a bad experience with a mobile site. What if they put siri on? What if it curses at us better than we curse at it? Dan Zarella: All these takeaways are under 140 […]
BlogWorld was awesome. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines Amber Naslund: There are these big changes going on in how people interact, and we’re in charge. Are your parents scared? They should be. Our top fear isn’t failure, it’s being blamed. … they’d stone me to death. And not in the good way. […]
Peter Shankman rocked the BlogWorld keynote this morning. Here’s the best of what he said: When I was 18 credits short of a degree I got a letter that my scholarship was revoked because my parents made too much money. I wrote them back saying “They do make too much money. But they keep it.” […]
SMX East was awesome. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines Jeff Jarvis: Google is portrayed as Godzilla but sees itself as Snufflupagus (hat tip: Lisa Barone) Marty Weintraub: Make your Facebook ads fun! “Lost your head”? “Goodbye stupid tools”, or “Don’t be a dumb__clockhead” ..”Facebook won’t let you say ass (hat tip: Akvile Harlow) […]
I was thrilled that WikiMania made it to Haifa. It was a great conference. Here was the best of the best: Best Lines Jimmy Wales: We need to recapture the spirit of innovation (in software) and not have a massive debate for each change. (hat tip: @Wittylama) Wikipedia cares about quality. Many articles the average […]
SMX London was great. Here’s the best of the best. Best Lines & Lessons David Burgess: [For Extreme Makeover SEO Edition had to get a site from unranked to page 1 in 3 months]: I was told if I couldn’t get the site ranking #1 I’d be sacked. So this is his first and last […]
SMX Toronto was excellent. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines & Lessons Bruce Clay: In the future we’re going to have to analyze the analytics and not just report it (hat tip: @saffyre9) Dawn Wentzell: If you’re looking to convince your CEO not to use Flash, just tell him it won’t work on […]
South by Southwest is a remarkable conference. The Interactive segment alone was nearly 5 crazy days with about 40 simultaneous sessions in each time slot. It included lectures by industry luminaries, celebrities, entrepreneurs and “ordinary” people with interesting ideas and perspectives to share. Here’s the best from the 2011 conference. Best Lines: Guy Kawasaki: The Apple […]
Wow, what a conference. Great sessions, great smackdowns, and Matt Cutts is not the most mentioned person (this time that honor goes to Charlie Sheen). Here’s the Best of the Best. Best Lines: Todd Nemet [Showing log files] Look at this, Google makes their crawlers work on Christmas. So much for Don’t be evil. Oh, don’t […]
[Dear reader: A funny thing happened with this post. I wrote it to show how it’s OK for eHow’s page to rank on “how to pour a glass of water” since it will only be found by people searching for that information. But then I was surprised to get a lot of search traffic to […]