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The Google Superbowl ad

February 8, 2010 by Eric Friedman

Google aired its first ever Superbowl ad using a video that resonated with many folks called Parisian Love.  The video is embedded below.  Search Engine Land has an excellent write up of all the details, including the fact that it had over 1MM views before the event – will be interesting to see how much …

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Tags: Add new tag, google

Google Social Search and your neighborhood connections

February 4, 2010 by Eric Friedman

Google introduced the idea of Social Search back in October 2009, but I just recently started seeing instances of it in the wild.  I think this is a social version of backrub and only the beginning. The way it is shown is at the bottom of search results: Results from people in your social circle …

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Tags: Add new tag, Google Social Search, Social Search, Twitter

Retiring the following 10 technology excuses

January 26, 2010 by Eric Friedman

Below is a list of technology excuses that plagued people over the last decade. I think we can safely retire most of these in the next 10 years; 1. Lost voicemails “I left you a voicemail, but you must not have gotten it” This is no longer acceptable. Smart providers and smarter phones mean that …

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Unnecessary Animations (and features)

January 25, 2010 by Eric Friedman

I finally got around to installing Windows 7 in my laptop a few weeks ago (had to reformat – always fun) After installing it and getting back up and running I have noticed some unnecessary animations in menus and windows. After doing some research for how to turn them off, do you know what they …

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The Spawn of Craiglist – A Visualization

January 21, 2010 by Eric Friedman

My colleague and friend Andrew Parker did a great visualization mapping startups over Craigslist categories they competes in. You should click through and read his thoughts. First, it is incredible that around 30 companies are actively attacking these categories, whether directly or indirectly, on Craigslist – more if you dig deeper and include competitors within …

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Tags: Add new tag, Andrew Parker, Union Square Ventures

The Business Breakfast

December 22, 2009 by Eric Friedman

This post is definitely a joke, but it hit such a chord with my friends I thought I would open up the dialogue here – what to eat at the business breakfast?. To be honest, I have never given this much thought. To my surprise a group of friends I was recently with had this …

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