Archive for February, 2008
MyBlogLog Ventures into “Lifestreaming”
Friday, February 29th, 2008Yup, I’m still a fan.
Congrats to Yelp for Raising $15 Million
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Sorry for another short post, but I wanted to say congrats to the team at Yelp for raising another $15 million in funding!
Should PR Agencies Blog?
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008I’m with Brian on this one — “it depends.”
My Thoughts on The Changes in Rob’s Business Thoughts
Monday, February 25th, 2008BusinessPundit, which my boss got me hooked on, is one of the blogs that I follow regularly. Rob May, the guy behind the blog for the past 5 years, is moving on to do other things — and he wrote a fantastic post titled “The Top 10 Changes in my Business Thinking” summing up his […]
Esperanza Opens a New Branch in Santiago, Dominican Republic
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Esperanza is opening a new office in Santiago, DR -
On Monday, February 11, 2008 Esperanza International inaugurated its ninth office in the Dominican Republic, and tenth office branch overall. This new branch is located in Santiago de los Caballeros, a city of roughly 2 million people—the second largest city behind the capital of Santo Domingo.
Congrats!!
And […]
This is What Social Entrepreneurship is All About
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Here’s a great video that shows what is possible via social entrepreneurship. The project is by Playpumps International.
This begs the question — why aren’t we seeing more projects like this getting some attention?
[via Guy Kawasaki]
Halong Bay - Can You Say Beautiful?
Saturday, February 16th, 2008I’m traveling to Southeast Asia next month for a couple weeks, and my buddy and I are starting to figure out which places we want to visit in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong while we’re there — Halong Bay in Vietnam is one of the early finds.
Picture via Village Voices
Photo by Kristupa Saragih (found here)
If […]
Look Me In The Eyes - A Great Commercial
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Here’s a great commercial I just saw on ABC from Jordan Brand that made me think. Jordan didn’t get to where he is in life by relying on sheer luck, so any life advice he gives should be listened to.
Are you scared of what you won’t become? Or are you scared of what you could […]
Yes, For the Record, I Love MyBlogLog
Friday, February 15th, 2008And I’m excited to hear the news they have a new look to their recent readers widget.
[via Agent Genius]
Yahoo! and Newscorp?
Friday, February 15th, 2008A Yahoo!-Newscorp deal would certainly be interesting, wouldn’t it? Spinning off Myspace and all their other net properties and merging them with Yahoo! would certainly give them a massive user base to cross promote content (page views) to. And combining their ad sales teams and inventory couldn’t hurt either. Though with myspace’s search deal with […]
Congrats to Obama for taking Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008It’s really no secret I’m an Obama fan. I was certainly happy to check cnn tonight when I got home and see that Obama beat Hillary in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. In my opinion, it’s going to be extremely difficult for Hillary to overtake him now — his momentum is only increasing…
Transforming Customers into Evangelists: The Art of Listening and Engagement
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I’d encourage everyone interested in social media and marketing to read Brian Solis’ post — Transforming Customers into Evangelists: The Art of Listening and Engagement. I live and breathe this social media stuff every day at Zillow, so it really resonated with me. There’s many good take-aways, but here’s one that I particularly agree with […]
Just One Benefit to Blogging
Monday, February 11th, 2008Though the actual article is making a case against blogging, I couldn’t help but link to it as a result of the gem of a comment left by Jay Thompson -
I can blog in my underwear while I drink beer and watch football.
Influential Voices on Alltop — Congrats Lani!!
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Check out this article Brian Solis wrote a couple days ago at PR 2.0 (one of my favorite blogs that I follow) about the new site Alltop, which aggregates influential voices across the web. Brian lists the voices included, which are likely household names if you’re familiar with the tech blogosphere.
Fake Steve Jobs, Robert Scoble, […]
Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
Saturday, February 9th, 2008There’s a great book review over at NextBillion.net for the book The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World. I’ve got a long list of books to read (currently reading a long way gone by Ishmael Beah), but I’m definitely going to add this to my short list.
Facebook in Spanish? Check
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Mashable just reported that Facebook is now available in Spanish. That’s awesome news, both for Facebook expansion and for me. I took two years of Spanish in high school, but 2 years of language classes almost 10 years ago isn’t sufficient to be fluent — far from it. Where am I going with this? I […]
Suggested Friends?
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Brilliant.