by Jeff Yablon | Aug 7, 2013 | Content, Influency
This week, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post. I wasn’t planning to comment on the deal; there’s been a tremendous amount of coverage in the press, and Influency-wise I wasn’t sure I had an angle that mattered. Then, I saw this....
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 5, 2013 | Business Process, Influency
Draw whatever conclusions you like from this: Bigger is NOT always Better. I can just hear the wheels spinning in the heads of my younger readers and those with a certain sense of humor. Nevertheless, sometimes smaller is just right. A couple of years ago, I told you...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 2, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing
A long time ago, I found myself playing with a piece of software that used “hypertext”. I’m talking a VERY long time ago; the Internet existed, but nobody was on it yet, and this hypertext-using software was designed to link things on a single...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 1, 2013 | Influency, Media
Google Chromecast. Google Chromecast! GOOGLE FREAKIN’ CHROMECAST! OK, so I got that out of my system. Last week, Google revealed their AppleTV Killer, the Chromecast. It came, for about 24 hours, with a three-month credit for Netflix, effectively dropping the...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 1, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing
This week, President Obama sat for a short interview with David Blum, the editor of Amazon.com Kindle Singles. My compliments to Mr. Blum for conducting a back-and-forth with the leader of the free world that was actually interesting (you can get it here). It...
