A more polished, edited version of this appeared in Ad Age. You’re stuck with the original ‘director’s cut’ here. When Will Facebook Find Its Voice? Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and now Apple made their voice-activated hardware approaches clear. There’s one proverbial elephant that isn’t in the literal living room right now though: Facebook. Does that mean […]
Category: Innovation
How (and Why) to Get a Branded URL
As I started producing my own newsletter for the first time, I was including URLs in-line with the text (instead of just hyperlinking text), and started to get frustrated with the length of some of them. Long URLs are ugly. At first, my solution was to create custom bit.ly URLs, which I love doing in […]
Look Behind the Curtain: Why I Joined Oz Content’s Board
In some news I’ve been eager to share for a bit and finally can publicly, I am now officially a board member of Oz Content. I had met the founder, Matt Lovett, in early 2014, and we reconnected this March at a friend’s breakfast discussion, leading to this new collaboration. He also introduced me to […]
Is the Thrill of the Product Hunt Gone?
This was originally published Medium and LinkedIn – seems like it's worth sharing here too… Product Hunt debuted in mid-2014 at the perfect time to give startups a way to promote themselves to a populace that seemingly can’t get enough of them. But maybe some of us can get enough after all. Below, data from Product […]
The Only SXSW Recap Deck You Will Ever Need
You're welcome. SXSW Trend Deck Preview: Brands, Tech Startups, Tacos, and More from David Berkowitz
Firefox Theme Productivity Tip: Littlefox
I’ve never played around much with Firefox browser themes, but I found one that’s actually useful: Littlefox. As I’m one to experiment with lots of buttons and toolbars, the clutter’s usually unbearable. Littlefox shrinks all of that so that each button and toolbar takes up the least amount of vertical space while still being readable. […]
Video Q&A – Jabbits – The New Frontier?
Matt Candrian of Jabbits recently wrote a comment about his new video Q&A service, and it’s worth mentioning the site in a post so everyone can catch it. Personally, it’s not for me. I’ve used Yahoo Answers and other Q&A sites partially for their speed – I can post quickly and relatively quickly find out […]
Two Outlook Add-ons I’d Love to See
Whenever I add contacts to Outlook or update them, there are two fields I commonly add myself: * Date met: This provides some context for how long I’ve known them, and that alone can often trigger an association with a job or event. * Related people: This is much more interesting. If I know Dan […]
Expanding EZPass
Idea of the day: Why not expand E-Z Pass (or toll tags, or whatever automated system you might have to pass through highway tolls quickly by paying automatically from a device inside your car) to shopping malls? They shouldn’t be confined to the highways, and large parking garages where visitors return sporadically and pay as […]
Branching into Family Trees
Courtesy of TechCrunch, Geni.com is one of my new online obsessions. It allows you to create family trees and collaborate with other family members. It’s hardly perfect. For instance, it’s slow, and you can’t put that a couple wasn’t married (the closest you can do is "divorced"), so it needs some fine tuning. I also […]