The phenomenon of Twitter and Friendfeed seems to have regained momentum over the past couple of weeks. Early adopters are increasingly fascinated with these applications’ ability to broadcast information across the Web to a community of followers. The recent incident involving a US citizen arrested in Egypt, who used Twitter to ask for help, [...]
I am increasingly surprised by how many more sites seem to be looking to build audiences through SEM efforts. The concept of using a direct marketing ad unit such as paid search to promote content websites has seemed strange to me. The idea of having to continually advertise to be able to aggregate audiences [...]
I, Jorge Espinel, am a partner at Velocity Interactive Group. I was previously head of AOL Corporate Strategy and M&A. This is where I share my thoughts and opinions on trends and the prescient issues facing digital media.
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On my way to Stream08. Ready for the long flight. 2008/10/01
Twitter offers a new paradigm for services on the Web 2008/07/29
On the way to a meeting after taking the red-eye 2008/07/29