The year was 1995 and a new technology startup called Netscape had a wildly successful IPO.  Their product, of course, was the first widely adopted web browser and the Internet as we know it today was born.
In the early days of the Internet, the web was largely static brochure-ware (meaningful and consistent media feeds came [...]

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I don’t know what rock I’ve been hiding under, but I just came across this post on The Official Google Blog about the prediction market that Bo Cowgill and other employees set up years ago to forecast internal events of strategic importance at Google.  (It  was originally posted back in 2005, but for some reason it came up in [...]

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What is cool about being a weekend blogger is getting the scoop on 2 days out of the 7-day work week (~30% — not bad).
Last time a hot news item hit the wires on a weekend, it was the DoubleClick purchase by Google.
This time, however, the news is about Nextag.
Here are the Headlines:

NexTag Sold 66% [...]

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Coffee stories are probably best-understood by lay folks throughout the world (although the same story could be told about both other options mentioned in the subject line, with only a slight change to “language” – see end of post).    So, here is the blog post in the language of Coffee Beans…
As coffee-drinking consumers we know [...]

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You’ve probably heard people say — sometimes brag — that they don’t click paid search ads on search engines. They think that by not clicking on the “sponsored listings” in search results, they are somehow doing themselves some kind of favor by avoiding all paid search ads, while at the same time spiting the search [...]

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This is the official public blog call-out requesting contributions from the other non-blogging members (thus far) of the management team:

Joey Liner – Co-founder and EVP of Sales
John Delta – CFO

C’mon Joey and JD – let’s fire up some new posts!
SPF
Once you do, I’ll come back and edit this post to delete your name (and ultimately the [...]

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Art vs. Science
Our VP of Marketing, Chris Beauchamp, recently re-named to the title to the blog located at blogs.doublepositive.com to “The Art of Leads.”  Personally, I love it.  The word “Art” and the word “Science” are probably the two most repeated words at DoublePositive.  They seem to last forever.  They are evergreens.
Readers should probably expect [...]

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