Jeff Nolan
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I Read this, and found it really provocative. Despite this data, many marketers are on a seemingly relentless quest to beef up their own social network profiles and reach users with lots of friends and followers. In the Vocus-Solis study, 57% of …
A Teachable Moment in Customer Service
Last week I stopped at a gas station to fill up and my credit card was declined. This was very distressing to me because I am obsessively fastidious about paying our bills, to the point that I pay my visa and amex …
Jeff Nolan Joins Get Satisfaction; Company Raises $6 Million in Series A
[Editor’s Note: A hearty congratulations to SiliconANGLE contributor Jeff Nolan. Jeff has been and continues to be one of the pillar contributors to SiliconANGLE from the very early days, and we wish him well at his future endeavors with a true emerging …
Craigslist and the Nuances of Illegal Sex
It’s the issue that just won’t go away. I wrote about this over a year ago, here and here. The New York Times makes a ridiculous assertion that Craigslist has removed the section and replaced it with the word “censored” as a …
I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means [Web is Dead]
There is so much to like in this well written rebuttal to the much talked about Wired cover piece titled “The Web is Dead” (maybe they should have titled it “Wired is Relevant Again!”) that I will leave you with the opening …
The Effect of Market Forces on Arbitrage and Efficiency [The Yahoo Case Study]
I just read Paul Graham’s excellent post on what happened to Yahoo and this one paragraph jumped out at me: I didn’t realize the answer till later, after I went to work at Yahoo. It was neither of my guesses. The reason …
Mobile Review: The HTC EVO 4G
Two weeks ago I wrote about switching camps from iPhone to Android, and with the news today that Android is now outselling iPhone I figured I could either take credit for the shift or do something far more useful and write a …
Forbe Issues Social Media Decree: “Everyone Blogs”
[Editor’s Note: This is a good thing – a practice we encourage here at SiliconANGLE, even amongst those that work with us who’s primary job function isn’t to write. –mrh] Every Forbes reporter will get a blog… this is smart because it …
Re-Examining My Social Media Footprint
A couple of months ago I started to experience a phenomena that many of my social media peers have experienced, which is that I started losing track of tweets that contain links that I wanted to recall. In other words, I had …
Why I Left the iPhone for the HTC Evo
This week I picked up an HTC Evo to replace my trusty iPhone 3G. My reason for doing this is twofold, featuring a technical and a philosophical reason. I should also take a paragraph to explain that this post isn’t about what …