Requiem For Radio Shack
So, RadioShack is dead, huh? You might say, who cares? Probably little better (different?) than a Sprint store anyway, right? Before there were hackers who …
Blog Posts
The Change In Marketshare For Game Platforms Going Back To 1971
No real reason to post this. Just thought it was cool. Click to enlarge. Found it here.
End of Year Checkin With iTunes
On yesterdays ep. I thanked you for keeping us high in the iTunes lists. But I realized I hadn’t actually checked on that in a …
The Real Reason Excite Turned Down Buying Google For $750,000 In 1999
It’s an infamous story of Internet history as well as business lore, but in 1999, the search engine Excite.com—then running number two to the reigning champion …
Checking In With iTunes
Nice to see we’re still hanging around the top 10. Thanks again for all the ratings and reviews. If you want to leave us a …
She Gave The World A Billion AOL CDs – An Interview With Marketing Legend Jan Brandt
Jan Brandt is a legend in the world of marketing. She singlehandedly led the famous AOL “carpet-bombing” campaign that put millions of AOL trial discs …
The NSA Tried This Before – What the 90s Debate Over The Clipper Chip Can Teach Us About Digital Privacy
We’ve Been Down This Road… Something Something… Forgetting History… Something Something… Doomed To Repeat It There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes …
Yelp, Facebook, Google and the Intermediation of Small Business
This morning I woke up to find this San Francisco magazine story at the top of Techmeme: In great detail, it describes the rather fraught …