Creating Remarkable Awareness and Buzz
Monday, 21 May 2007
by Paul O'Brien
Through a masterful execution of online video, Harvard, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., the Smithsonian Institution, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) announced a project which aligns biology, zoology, and software experts from around the world to create a beautiful wiki of all known living species. Why,
- Published in Brand Marketing, Display Advertising, Fun, Social Media, Web 2.0
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Acquisitions Keep On Rollin’
Monday, 21 May 2007
by Paul O'Brien
Will the madness ever end?!? Microsoft is picking up online advertising vendor aQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion in cash almost doubling the Google’s price for Doubleclick We’re not done there though with rumors flying the Google is adding RSS syndication vendor (and personal favorite) Feedburner to their roster. Following Yahoo’s brilliant pick up of
- Published in Social Media
Killer Startups and Web 2.0 Developments
Wednesday, 09 May 2007
by Paul O'Brien
I spent a few minutes at True Ventures last night, home to comparison shopping datafeed start-up SingleFeed (of which, from time to time, I’ve encouraged your consideration). That entrepreneurial environment holds tremendous appeal for me due to the passion, innovation, and risk taken by all who endeavor to create and I always enjoy translating offline
- Published in Blogs & Blogging, Fun, Social Media, Web 2.0
Digg Hostile Takeover
Wednesday, 02 May 2007
by Paul O'Brien
The definitive web 2.0 news directory was inundated with users lashing out to Digg’s catering to industry. With the cracking of HD-DVD encryption codes, the movie industry has been stumbling over themselves with cease and desist letters to prevent sites from redistributing the key. Related articles were removed from Digg resulting in dozens of seemlingly
- Published in Social Media, Web 2.0
Come on AOL…
Monday, 30 April 2007
by Paul O'Brien
I’ll let TechCrunch summarize this one as I think the image speaks for itself.
- Published in Social Media, Uncategorized
A Little Digg Will Do Ya
Monday, 30 April 2007
by Paul O'Brien
Clocking in at 465 diggs yesterday, SEO’Brien went down for the count, unable to handle the hundreds of hits per second. My apologies to those that tried to reach the site, I’ve moved the server to a different host and we’re alive and kicking again. Here’s the article Not About Self-aggrandizement This experience made me
- Published in Change Log, Insights / Research, Social Media, Web 2.0
Blogging with WordPress
Saturday, 28 April 2007
by Paul O'Brien
Well that’s the last time I ever do that. I’ve spent the better part of my week redesigning SEO’Brien in WordPress after being convinced of its superiority as a blogging platform. Why? Might you ask. The site looks better doesn’t it? Cleaner and much more aesthetically pleasing. I hope you like it. Besides, it gave
- Published in Blogs & Blogging, Change Log