by Jeff Yablon | Sep 3, 2013 | Business Process, Influency, Media
Why Make Trillions When We Can Make … Billions? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, despite the identical hair style and similar bent on world domination, is way smarter than Dr. Evil. Today, The Man Who Will Change Journalism showed just how smart. Amazon has announced...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 30, 2013 | Influency, Marketing
A long time ago I ran a restaurant. The guy who mentored me and had been in the hospitality business for a couple of decades shared his motto with me: inspect, don’t expect. I don’t care for that idea when it comes to people; I’d prefer to believe...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 29, 2013 | Business Process, Influency
If there’s ever been an area where Influency matters, it’s video games. Once you have someone locked into your ecosystem they tend to stay unless something absolutely remarkable happens. Microsoft learned this when they announced the upcoming Xbox One...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 27, 2013 | Influency, Media
When Google unleashed Chromecast, I told you that given the chance that you should grab one. And I’m standing by that statement; at just $35 the Chromecast is a send-video-to-a-TV game changer. But as time passes and clever programmers find ways to make the...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 23, 2013 | Influency, Marketing
If you were a little girl, I’ll bet I know which one of these guys you’d find more appealing. Well, it turns out that on Vine, Harry Styles way out-pulls Nicholas Megalis, too. But the creator of ‘mad gummy money’ is doing pretty well if you...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 22, 2013 | Influency
Here’s a big problem. Google Now is getting smarter. That isn’t a bad thing, of course; Google’s better-than-Siri search helper can be incredibly useful, and while I find its insistence on giving me directions to every place I so much as ask a...
