Recently my wife bought two bottles of Big House Red at Trader Joes in Sacramento. It was the most recent vintage, likely 2009 and they were in her words, "horrible" with the second bottle worse than the first. What I didn't realize was that Bonny Doon had in the past few years sold off the … Read more
Last night news of yet another data breach came to my attention. This time it was Epslion, a Dallas, TX based permission marketer. By this morning already one of my credit card companies was notifying me to be on the lookout for spam emails that would fall into the category of Phishing attacks. Well, this … Read more
I was in Denver in 1988 working for the Denver Nuggets. US West was the telco and a few years later they became Qwest. The company had a lot of vision and big ideas. Of the major telcos back then Qwest with their CyberCenters and fiber network that was built out along side the same … Read more
Image via CrunchBase I don't get it. Or really, corporate boards and senior management don't get it. There's Apple. And then there's everybody else. Apple is a different kind of company. They think different. They plan their products better and they execute better. It's that simple. They are product marketers first, and figure out which … Read more
Image via Wikipedia My trip down Languedoc lane continues with this nice nine year old St. Chinian red. As a fan of Mas Champart, it's nice to see other producers making wines of memorable quality from a region that's not very well known on the west coast and where we see so little diversity in … Read more
eComm founder, Lee Dryburgh, explains in a very passionately written post what’s up with eComm 2011 in a very personal way. I have already promised Lee the support of my agency again to manage the influencer relations sector, and hope others jump in as well to support him where he needs help. eComm is about … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Last night my wife and I went over to Roy's La Jolla as we were in the mood for Sushi. I'm now home after a long trip, and between GM Brian Lee and Chef Percy, both of whom have been friends, in the true sense of Ohana, for ten years or so, … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I’ll admit, that I love to go to Starbucks as my “get away” from the home office office. Meeting are easy to arrange at their locations, as most people in the technology world know where one is. So of late, after returning from my exhaustive 6 week European business trip and mini-vacation, … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I'll admit, that I love to go to Starbucks as my "get away" from the home office office. Meeting are easy to arrange at their locations, as most people in the technology world know where one is. So of late, after returning from my exhaustive 6 week European business trip and mini-vacation, … Read more
Jaunted is reporting that Skype is testing phone booths in Estonia. But it sounds like it’s part of a more involved plan to further disintermediate the traditional telcos who have seen their revenues from coin operated telephones erode at airports, as most of that traffic has moved to cellular/mobile phones. With Skype Access agreements in … Read more
