Tag: mobile
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I’m joining the team at Snaps
Like many of us in the New York tech and media communities, I’ve tried to invest my time working with world class entrepreneurs, incredible visions and great businesses. To that end, I’m thrilled to share that I’m joining the team at Snaps as its CEO. When I first met Vivian Rosenthal, she described her view of a world where social communication had shifted…
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Mobile Advertising Sucks and That Needs to Change
I was not surprised to see a recent report from Trademob finding that 40% of mobile ad clicks are either accidental or fraudulent. When I interned for Jerry Neumann, he had me take a look at the mobile vs. display ecosystem, which I did. Back then I was interested in the differences between mobile and desktop traffic…
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AT&T and T-Mobile Will Slow Innovation
Om Malik wrote a good piece on this merger; it’s fairly old news at this point. I’m pretty sure I dislike this deal and I think it’s going to inhibit American entrepreneurs from accelerating innovation in mobile. Strategically, the proposed $39 Billion cash and stock deal that’s been put up by AT&T to acquire T-mobile…
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Five Predictions for 2011
I started to write a retrospective on 2010, but decided that we all lived through the year and there are some great photo essays that are much more interesting than my thoughts. Instead, I’m going to make five predictions on tech, social and digital media trends in 2011. 1. Exponential growth in the U.S. smartphone…
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Mobile Coupons
The short story is that we’re nowhere near replacing traditional coupons with digital ones, but it’s going to happen very quickly when someone solves a few problems that dont seem particularly complicated. I think the opportunity is going to be exploited by a strong application and site which will drive a critical adoption rate from…
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Gowalla, Foursquare and Lots of Zeroes
Who wouldn’t want to walk into a mall and be fought over by department stores with discounts, right on their phone? Anyone in the U.S. under the age of 25 is unlikely to ever clip coupon form a newspaper– but they are highly likely to use digital coupons that are readily available on an LBS…
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