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It’s Apple’s world and welcome to it. Or more to the point, it’s Apple’s way or the highway.

There was an exceptional article in The New York Times about 2 weeks ago that likened Apple’s iPad to America’s interstate highway system. In it, the author quoted Michael Cusumano, professor at the Sloa Read More

The internet seems to have its own in-house breeding program for experts and guru's, and you learn reeeal quick, not everyone is who they say they are. Read More

I wrote in a recent Blog post about how content is king again. It’s true: Online media properties with fresh, relevant, updated daily content are as hot as steak sauce at a Texas barbeque festival. Venture capital companies, banks and media holding corporations are lining up, one by one, to raise t Read More

Link Wheels are a scam and there are better ways of building links back to your website. Avoid snake oil salesman methods on effective link building strategies Read More

In recent years, event marketing has increasingly been tied to the web. I attended a conference a few months ago where Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales spoke to an audience of marketers and communicators. In the background, a screen featured a projected broadcast of streaming questions to the speaker, Read More

One of the key concepts to any brand identity initiative is helping organizations understand their differentiation. It’s one of the hardest parts of the process, but it’s also one of the most critical. As Philip Kotler, professor at the Kellogg School of Management has written, “The art of marketin Read More

That question has two interpretations, of course. Not since Alan Greenspan was contemplating retirement has there been this level of attention around the well-being of one businessman. Interestingly, it’s almost perceived on the same scale, as if Mr. Jobs leaving Apple temporarily for medical reaso Read More

There’s no getting around it: Jim Breyer is a very bright guy. The Dealbook section of nytimes.com features a story this week about Breyer, who was one of the first investors in Facebook. That was in 2005 — long before Goldman and two dozen other venture firms got involved. His firm, Accel, is an i Read More

Now, we hear the news about another recently launched property for men called Manofthehouse.com, from the good folks at Procter & Gamble. All this comes after news in November about The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Hmmm. Maybe Barry Diller and IAC were onto something after all. This whole “content” th Read More

In recent weeks, just as we’ve watched companies like Groupon, Facebook, Zynga and Twitter add over $2 Billion (that’s $2 BILLION) in new venture capital, we’re also seeing companies like Yahoo and Myspace in the news as well. Only, in the case of Yahoo we were learning about layoffs (560 employees Read More