Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer has done something of an Oprah, promising all Yahoo employees a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia or HTC smartphone. As part of the same bold move, Yahoo is discontinuing IT support for its employees' Blackberrys.
Ouch. That sound you hear is not a ringtone, but another nail punched into the coffin of RIM, maker of Blackberry.
Actually, that was fun to write, but not really fair. As a former Blackberry user who just sent his new but defective HTC phone back to its maker for exchange, I can tell you that I was always able to depend on my Blackberry back when I had one. So why is Blackberry's market share shrinking to a number smaller than my infant son's shoe size?
The rise of mobile is tied to the rise of the visual.
You can't take a meeting in Starbucks these days without hearing somebody talking about mobile being on the rise. We are taking in content on our phones and tablets, so it makes sense that the devices we like are those with bigger screens, more processing power, and capable of sucking in bigger bandwidth.
Since my contact with brands has become visually driven, I experience those brands as... Read more
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Marissa Mayer's Smartphone Giveaway – What it Means For Your Content
Lesson for Yahoo: Is a Clean Slate the Best Solution?
As you’ve probably heard, Yahoo just hired ex-Googler Marissa Mayer as its new CEO. She is the company’s fifth CEO in five years. But can yet another CEO change the fate of the struggling company? It got me thinking.
I get sad when I see “paperboys” (themselves now in their forties) literally throwing a rolled up log of dead tree at “customers” before peeling off. Really? Dinosaurs no longer roam the earth. Equally, though, I cringe at the gilded turd sites and applications that so beautifully say nothing in their perfectly developed pointlessness.
These folks need one another. Here’s a case in point.
I had a great lunch with a good friend and super smart guy recently. He was mentioning that in his particular company “the cavalry is always coming.” Mind you, his is a phenomenal company and very venerable, but it’s always had a bit of envy hardwired in its DNA. They’ve always been one person away from MEGA success in their collective mind.
Finally, at a recent meeting someone finally stepped up and said what some of the newer management had been thinking. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We have everything and everyone we need right here.” Crickets. Crickets.... Read more
The 2012 Survival Guide for Publishers
It has been a bumpy few years for online publishers, and the roller-coaster ride will continue. But there's real money to be made, thanks to the potential of new ad formats and new ad technologies.
