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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 [...]

Got into a good conversation today around thinking about the power of wordpress.com and the potential for tying together as a loosely inter-connected CMS that could be comparable to Yahoo! in the new era of the net.
I’m always fascinated by a property like Yahoo and their millions of uniques. This sheer scale coupled with [...]

Chris Brogan was nice enough to talk with me in a post entitled, American Express is OPEN around one of the projects that we are currently working on, The OPEN Forum Blog. It is always fun to see a project get interest and recognition among your peers. {Definitely beats traditional banner ads and behavioral targeting.} [...]