Trendierr

 
I’ve been playing around with Trendrr, the online trends tracking service. This has been around for a while, but has just shifted to a ‘Freemium’ model. Think of it as Google Trends on steroids. The sources of trends tend to focus on web chatter (Twitter, Delicious, Flickr etc.), and the featured categories tend to focus [...]

Flip Planning

Flip just got sold.  

Pure Digital, an eight year old, one hundred person company in San Francisco was bought by Cisco (an Ogilvy client) for $590 million in stock.  As the New York Times notes, this is an amazing success story in a gloomy tech world. 

Why was it so successful so quickly?

I got a Flip for Christmas, and [...]