by Jeff Yablon | Aug 8, 2013 | Content, Influency
Yesterday, I came down pretty hard on Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post. Or more specifically, on what’s going on in the background and on the fringes of Bezos’ earlier foray into journalism at Business Insider. I promised another angle...
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...
