I understand the positives, for sure: there are 1.35 billion people on Facebook, so there’s a lot more familiarity with the interface and how to use it than there would be, say, if your company used Slack or something else.… Continue Reading
Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006. In 2014, YouTube alone will be responsible for about 20 percent of all digital ad revenue, top $1 billion in video ad revenue, and is quite possibly worth about $40 billion right now.… Continue Reading
F’n woke up this morning at about 3:44am. Normally when I do that, I go get some water, maybe pee, and then go back to sleep. That works 8 times out of 10. This morning was one of two times… Continue Reading
As a drunk kid in Vegas once told me (read the post), “We don’t get paid in likes and clicks.” Continue Reading
In some ways, on YouTube and Facebook, 2013 was the year of “The Harlem Shake.” Now we have some YouTube data from 2014, and the story is a smidge different.
You may have seen a little bit around Google+ in the last few days; Chris Messina, who was a developer advocate and UX designer on the product, wrote this article for Medium. It essentially goes into some of the pros… Continue Reading
I had a semi-deep thought this morning and decided to write a post about it. It won’t be anything remarkable or even that nuanced, but I think people might be missing the boat when it comes to how to design/structure… Continue Reading
Personally, I understand the value of social media — even if 80 percent of people using it are “me-formers” — because it connects family and friends in a new way. It’s always remarkable to me when I can know exactly… Continue Reading