Jeff Nolan
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Buying Influence
I Read this, and found it really provocative. Despite this data, many marketers are on a seemingly relentless quest to beef up their own social network profiles and reach users with lots of friends and followers. In the Vocus-Solis study, 57% of respondents said they’d be willing to pay for an influencer to help them ...
Jeff Nolan Joins Get Satisfaction; Company Raises $6 Million in Series A
[Editor’s Note: A hearty congratulations to SiliconANGLE contributor Jeff Nolan. Jeff has been and continues to be one of the pillar contributors to SiliconANGLE from the very early days, and we wish him well at his future endeavors with a true emerging Web 2.0 success story in GetSatisfaction. Jeff Nolan cross-posted this at his personal ...
Craigslist and the Nuances of Illegal Sex
It’s the issue that just won’t go away. I wrote about this over a year ago, here and here. The New York Times makes a ridiculous assertion that Craigslist has removed the section and replaced it with the word “censored” as a ploy to inflame public support. It is a ridiculous assertion because the only ...
The Effect of Market Forces on Arbitrage and Efficiency [The Yahoo Case Study]
I just read Paul Graham’s excellent post on what happened to Yahoo and this one paragraph jumped out at me: I didn’t realize the answer till later, after I went to work at Yahoo. It was neither of my guesses. The reason Yahoo didn’t care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic ...
Mobile Review: The HTC EVO 4G
Two weeks ago I wrote about switching camps from iPhone to Android, and with the news today that Android is now outselling iPhone I figured I could either take credit for the shift or do something far more useful and write a short post about my experiences so far. To recap, I dumped iPhone/AT&T for ...
Forbe Issues Social Media Decree: “Everyone Blogs”
[Editor’s Note: This is a good thing – a practice we encourage here at SiliconANGLE, even amongst those that work with us who’s primary job function isn’t to write. –mrh] Every Forbes reporter will get a blog… this is smart because it forces the individual to build a distinct brand in the market and it ...
Why I Left the iPhone for the HTC Evo
This week I picked up an HTC Evo to replace my trusty iPhone 3G. My reason for doing this is twofold, featuring a technical and a philosophical reason. I should also take a paragraph to explain that this post isn’t about what device is better because better is an entirely subjective quality. More significantly, the ...