Signal

A blocked-in M&A source informs us Eddie Signal, Apple's senior v . p . of Internet Software and Services is around the prowl for purchases within the social networking space.Two targets jump in your thoughts: Pinterest and Path.Pinterest is really a photo-discussing/collecting site that you might not have come across, however your wife, mother, and sister have used for 3 several weeks now.  It's were built with a little hiccup in user-growth, only since it is been over-blown a lot, huge numbers

(image) The Signal San Francisco conference is less than a week away, so I thought I’d take the time to explain my reasoning for the theme, and offer a curtain raiser of sorts on the day-long program. (PS, I have ten, and only ten, half price tickets available. Hit this link, and use the code “luckyday.”)

Over at the FM blog, I just posted the draft agenda for the first of five conferences I’ll be chairing as part of my day job at Federated Media. Signal San Francisco is a one-day event (March 21) focused on the theme of  integrating digital marketing across large platforms (what I’ve called “dependent web” properties) and the Independent Web. The two are deeply connected, as I’ve written here. As we explore that “interdependency,” we’ll also be talking about

Note: I wrote this post without contacting anyone at Twitter. I do know a lot of folks there, and as regular readers know, have a lot of respect for them and the company. But I wanted to write this as a "Thinking Out Loud" post, rather than a reported article. There's a big difference - in this piece, I am positing an idea. It's entirely possible my lack of reporting will make me look like an uninformed boob. In the reported piece I'd posit the idea privately, get a response, and then report what I was

Greg Linden, a friend to the site back when I was writing the first book, is writing more lately, and he's got a great post about Google Maps data that highlights why we've decided to focus on "The Data Frame" for the Web 2 Summit this year.

On Thursday at Signal Austin, and then again on Friday at SXSWi, I'll be having an onstage conversation with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, who continues to be the driver of the Wordpress community. WordPress is a unique platform - Matt works for Automattic, a for profit company that owns the rights to the hosted version of WordPress, at wordpress.com. There's also WordPress.org, which is an open source, not-for-profit foundation that boasts a vibrant community of developers and hackers who merrily

(cross posted from the FM Blog) In just a few days I'll be welcoming 200 or so digital marketers to Signal Austin, the second edition of FM's Signal conference series - regional, "mini" versions of our highly-acclaimed annual New York event. Our first Signal - based in LA - focused on content marketing. I'm proud to say it was both oversold and very well received.

I'm pleased to formally announce Federated Media's upcoming Signal Series - three full-day conferences in three great cities. Born from FM's annual Conversational Marketing Summit and my daily Signal newsletter, the Signal conference series focuses on one key topic in one city at a time. These three events will culminate in our annual CM Summit in New York next June during Internet Week. We've nearly completed the program for the first event - Signal LA. The event is February 8th at the SLS Hotel (it's