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Using Events to Drive Retail Traffic

BestBuy is apparently holding iPad supply so they will presumably

The Future of Data (and the Death of Surveys)

The demand for “metrics” is increasing. At the same time,

on Gov’t Shutdowns

Here are the last 11 government shutdowns. The average closing

On Privacy

I’ve written about Xobni for Outlook in the past, but

The Future of Postal Service 2020

Last week I had an extended conversation on the future

Making the Social Graph Linear

John Battelle writes about Color, a new social photo app.

Why Excluding Drunk Driver Apps Might be a Bad Idea…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and fellow Senators Chuck Schumer,

Super Bowl Commercials as a Leading Indicator?

Can super bowl commercials predict bubbles? I don’t know. Here

What Market Share Matters?

Both Lessien and John Gruber take on the topic of

State of the Union Analysis

This year’s State of the Union was about 400 words

2011 CES Tablets

In October I said I expected 80+ tablet launches at

The Future of 3DTV without Glasses

for those of you waiting for 3DTV without glasses, here

2011 CES Trends to Watch

Our presentation today on trends to watch at the 2011

Where Check-in Services Fail

Check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla have grown significantly in

Some of my Favorite Web Services

Two weeks ago I wrote a post on my top

The Revealing Insights of App Downloads and What it Teaches Us about Hardware

What apps are downloaded (or conversely not downloaded) tell us

My Top 15 Tech Products for 2010

Seeing PCWorld’s list of the 100 Best Tech Products from

Kindle v. iPad: Value Positions, and Why Selling Hardware on Specs Alone is Dead

On Monday Amazon premiered a new Kindle commercial during

The Potential of Ping

Yesterday Apple introduced Ping in iTunes 10. As Jobs described

Live Sports v. the Living Room: Some Advice for a Meaningful Stadium Experience

Tonight I was a guest on Sirius NASCAR Radio ch.128/XM

e-Readers

E-Readers aren’t a hardware story. E-Readers are a distribution story.