Posts Tagged "facebook"

30.Sep.2009 Relatively Disconnected

There’s this little company out there, making big changes.  You might have heard of it.  It’s called “Facebook”.  In fact, you might even be reading this post within Facebook (I just blew my mind).
They’ve burned 700 million dollars in venture cap and dominate the social networking scene (the only other company with growth potential in [...]

02.Sep.2009 Ben Franklin sucked at advertising

For being a pioneer in printed news papers (creating one of the first papers in PA and infamously publishing Poor Richard’s Almanac), Ben Franklin, in all modern measurements, sucked at ad-copy.  I might go so far as to say that he would have been canned by any current magazine, newspaper or even blog for the [...]