• Featured

    Posted on November 6th, 2008

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    Yes we can. Yes they did.

    Yes we can. Yes they did.

    Congratulations to our president elect Barack Obama.
    I’m amazed at the excitement and elation at seeing this man put forward as our leader elect.  Watch this video of peaceful, fun-loving young people dancing in the streets of Seattle’s Capitol Hill.  They’re waving flags instead of burning them.  They’re together––black, white, brown, gay, straight–dancing to Journey and [...]

  • Featured, Marketing

    Posted on November 6th, 2008

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    Possession is 1/10th of the law

    Possession is 1/10th of the law

    Alex Garcia and I took some time to tear down the brilliant Barack Obama campaign, led by David Plough, a man we can only call a Pioneer. The brilliant execution of a disciplined, but distributed plan was breathtaking. While it never hurts that the president elect was a good candidate, a good candidate [...]

  • Products

    Posted on October 27th, 2008

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    New paradigms for shopping

    New paradigms for shopping

    I saw an announcement for Amazon WindowShop and decided to check it out.  I’ve been getting to know some of the good folks over in Amazon’s digital team since they bought Shelfari, and I’ve been pretty impressed.  While this is clearly a test to see how people would use such a feature, IT’s a very [...]

  • Marketing

    Posted on October 24th, 2008

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    Almond Roca: Know your channels

    Almond Roca: Know your channels

    Almond Roca must be the most popular candy among 80-somethings.  I’ve only bought it once in my life, and that was for bait in Monkee’s leprechaun trap we built last St. Paddys.  When we thought of that perfect bait, I was, at first, not entire sure where to buy the stuff.  Then I remembered the [...]

  • Brand

    Posted on October 23rd, 2008

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    Branded through and through

    Branded through and through

    It seems that one can learn a lot from cats with bad grammar.  I saw that Seattle startup and lolcat purveyor I Can Has Cheezburger (no I’m not making this up) won a Webby, the annual Internet Excellence award.  Since there are so many winners, a tradition was forged of the 5-word acceptance speech.  While [...]

  • Advertising

    Posted on October 23rd, 2008

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    Haiku: When AdWords is irrelevant

    Haiku: When AdWords is irrelevant

    It seems everyone these days has a blog (heck, even I do), and so we end up seeing Google ads everywhere we go: blogs, search, gmail.  Lots of them are banal or super clear, but two jumped out at me this week.  Our good friends at Woot are my new heros after posting these two [...]