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Interview With CEO Eric Migicovsky on The Future Of Pebble Smartwatches

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The amazing success of the Pebble e-ink screen smartwatch campaign from 2012 was a moment of glory for the company’s founder and CEO Eric Migicovsky. Raising over $10,000,000 on the crowd-funding...

Executive Creative Directors Evaluate Super Bowl Advertising

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One week from today is the Super Bowl of advertising with an hour of football in-between. I wanted all of us to enjoy these TV spots to the fullest. To that end, I asked myself what makes a great...

The Personal Web is the Next Big Thing

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The modern world can be a dehumanizing place.  Long gone is the sweet little old lady at the drugstore counter, replaced by big box retailers, brand logos and barcodes.  We’re more often“...

Display Ads are as Compelling As TV Spots

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In the lobby of Google’s Building 900 at its Mountain View headquarters, there’s a display of Google-colored squares and rectangles that looks like a bland abstract-art piece. It turns out these are...

Working From Home? 11 Ways To Stay Motivated

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I haven’t had any coworkers in five years now. Well, at least none that I see or hear on a daily basis. I’m a freelance journalist, one of many occupations these days that allows the complete and...

Google Ad Chief Susan Wojcicki Talks about Next Big Battle

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Straightforward and unflashy, Susan Wojcicki doesn’t come off like the most powerful woman in advertising that Forbes and others have labeled her. When we meet outside her office at the Googleplex in...

Tech Titans Talk Life-Changing Gadgets And NSA Reform in Davos

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Tech titans took the stage on the first morning at the World Economic Forum for a panel focused on changes in the digital landscape: bandwidth, privacy, data and business transformation. The speakers...

Proposing A Compelling OSCON Talk

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By Simon St. Laurent The OSCON call for proposals closes on January 30th. I’ve seen some great explanations of how to write a conference proposal generally, and my co-chair Matthew McCullough has an...
    






Make Your Book A Bestseller: Platform Building Tips From Michael Hyatt

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By Dorie Clark How can you make your book a bestseller? A good person to ask would be Michael Hyatt, whose 2012 book Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World became an instant New York Times...
    






Joe Carnahan on Directing ‘The Blacklist’, Slowing Down His New Film ‘Stretch’, and His Future In Both Mediums

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With current TV projects like The Blacklist and active film projects like Stretch, it’s hard to believe Joe Carnahan would have any time to speak about his evolving career. But in this exclusive...