January 2011
This video is worth seven minutes of any social media strategists time:
I take back everything I've said about VC's. (But I do wish they'd use a bit more sartorial sense. That ubiquitous, samey, unimaginative uniform of Ralph Lauren button downs are beginning to pale, and suggests, dare I say it, a lack of imagination.)
;-
However, that being said, there's some super-smart insights here in a great interview on Techcrunch with Bullpen Capital partners.
So much intel and analysis packed into barely seven minutes.
e.g. Why P&G getting out of TV soaps into Farmville, esp. in the afternoons.
The commercialsation of the Enterprise. aka: Sales through the side and back door.
Gamification and psychological insights inc 'Seven deadly sins'
It's a top watch.
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My 2010 as told by Storify:
Jack Dorsey talks to Kevin Rose about the early days of Twitter & Square:
Jack Dorsey wasn't just the co-founder of twitter, he invented it.
This is the first interview in the new Kevin Rose project: foundation.
Foundation consists of a private newsletter, video interviews and sneak peeks of the tech world.
With the video's airing for free on Revision3, a week after the subscribers only version.
Some big insights and some great trivia, (Twitter was nearly called Jitter.)
Good advice to start-ups, historical stuff about Jack's obsession with maps, urban environments and dispatch/emergency services that led to the birth of twitter. A good, interesting and well-shot 20 minutes.
