by Jeff Yablon | Feb 27, 2012 | Business Process, Marketing, Media
Bought anything on Facebook lately? Last week I came across this story at Mashable, talking about the demise of several major brands’ e-commerce efforts on Facebook. And my immediate reaction was that I hadn’t even realized these “Facebook...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 8, 2012 | Business Process
In the early hours of this morning, my son Mike tweeted this expletive-laced apology to his Twitter Community. You can only imagine my pride. Being a stickler for manners, I was happy to see that Mike thought his overuse of Twitter was worth an apology. But as a...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 30, 2012 | Business Process, Design, Marketing, Media
Why is is so hard, the more we communicate, to actually say anything? Even more: if you do manage to say something why does social networking make it so easy for people to apply the wrong context to what you say—or apply no context at all? Last night, Brian Clark, a...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 25, 2012 | Business Process, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO
Whenever I decide to write about privacy, I always cringe a little. As I’ve said more than a couple of times, privacy is a relatively new idea, has never really existed, and is impossible to legislate. The very idea of privacy is so complicated it makes my head...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 24, 2012 | Business Process, Content, Media
http://youtu.be/QIWpbfZHHzc A few months ago, I came across this video. It’s funny. REALLY funny. Using not-a-real-App Jotly, you could rate everything. Why limit yourself to rating the place you’re at when we all know that restaurant reviews are fake,...