Talk Is Cheap: Why Do Social Media Advocates Give Advertising Such Bad Rap ?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

This week I appeared on a marketing-focused panel, called Marketing S.O.S!, at Supernova '08 in San Francisco. Joining me were Kuiumarse Zamanian formerly from Yahoo! and now at Glam Media, Kerry Chrapliwy from Hewlett-Packard, Deborah Schultz formerly from SixApart and Hugh MacLeod, a well-known blogger and pundit. Howard Greenstein moderated. It ...

On Muxtape, Twitter, and the Future of Web Services and Platforms

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

My favorite web service of 2008 is Muxtape which, inspired the analog mix tape cassette culture of the 80s and 90s, allows users to create their own mixes — typically 12 songs — upload the files, sequence the songs and post. One of the pure joys of the service is ...

Advertisers Catch The Twitter Bug, But Too Small To Matter?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Advertisers are starting to move, en masse, towards Twitter but is it too small to matter? Southwest Airlines and JetBlue have taken the lead and Zappos.com uses the service ardently. Last week, in the throes of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, I had a great conversation ...