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Battelle’s post on GData vs. ComScore made me think about how we could potentially really start measuring audiences online.
The data aggregate potential from Google is amazing and also dangerous. It is one thing to favor forecasting the size of an audience based on running Google AdSense javascript, as ComScore claims they are doing, it [...]

It has been a little over a year since I moved to New York(yikes!) and I am excited to head back to San Francisco in a few weeks for a concert that just makes sense. Outside Lands. A 3 day music and arts festival in Golden Gate Park.
The kicker to all of this [...]

A few months ago John Shankman created a campaign for RadioShack that I promised the readership a scoop of ChasNote around. Unfortunately this post never came to be. But here for you now is not only that interview, but also a preview into a new campaign. One that I think will continue to [...]

Good piece by Nik Cubrilovic on the New Apple Walled Garden.
The solution is simple. If you truly believe in open standards, open source and the good that it has created, then don’t accept it. The spirit of open source was about building on the work of others in a transparent fashion, as the gains [...]

–> The NY Times article for creating habitual demand for products got the wheels spinning this weekend. The CPG companies are awesome at this to a point of scariness. I’m not even sure how I feel about the FeBreeze example and I’m surprised how forth coming the P&G team was around giving up that type [...]

The age old correspondence of how do people, in this case children, have time to do that? Generally in response to things rich, amazing web apps like Graffiti on Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. Riffing off Clay Shirky’s piece.
Children and Computers from The Media Lab(Stewart Brand, 1988)
“Kids like computers… I think it corresponds to children wanting [...]