Red Jacket Report

Maybe I just don’t get it. Maybe it’s been too long since the dot-com boom, which was the last time that I was at the digital frontier, while working at a technology-focused startup in New York. I just don’t understand why Facebook’s new “path to media” is such a major event for media companies. From […]

If you had to draw a Venn diagram showcasing the people who use Facebook and Google (in any capacity, not just search) on a daily basis, what percentage would you guess would be the overlap? My guess would be 99%, with the remainder being people who actively boycott one of the two for some reason. […]

Po Bronson’s satirical mockumentary of bond salesmen in San Francisco, Bombardiers, had line referred to as the Third Rule of the Information Economy. “Information does not have to be sold to be true.” Truer words have never been written, especially via the most popular digital broadcast medium, twitter.  Your view of a situation could be […]

Even though the launch of Google+ has definitely caused a stir, companies appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach to the new competitor to Facebook. The argument is that Google+ will continue to evolve, so there is no need to jump into the waters now.  Some executives feel that it’s better to wait for a […]

Like most people in the US, UK, Germany, and France, I was excited when 20th Century Fox announced that they would be selling feature films on the Android platform.  This will increase competition amongst media platforms, challenging Apple’s iTunes’ current dominant market share.  And that can only be good for customers like me. A footnote […]