It was August 2, 2001 and it was the beginning of a hot summer Thursday in New York City. After an event-filled week, I was standing exhausted and adrift outside the Millenium Hilton directly across from the World Trade Center. I had directed the communications efforts for an acquisition my firm had made on Wall [...]

Stat of the day: Eqypt’s cellphone penetration exploded in ’09-’10, going from 52.2% of all citizens in Dec. 2008 to 80.8% in Sept. 2010. At the same time, its Internet penetration is still pretty low, at 24.3% in ’09. So, considering that the revolution was driven by cellphones and Twitter accessed through them, who else [...]

Forget about Egypt, it has taken Howard Stern to move Twitter up a notch in the cultural conversation. He just started Tweeting, a move that has brought in a whole new group of readers to the microblog service. But, wait, there’s another aspect to this: live blogging during a TV show can enhance the viewer [...]

Now we know why U.S. clients of Goldman Sachs are so mad at the NY Times: Source: eMarketer.

Pitney Bowes is launching Volly, a service that integrates physical mail into digital documents for companies. Which leads us to wonder when the USPS will do the same thing and how money it could save doing it? Savings would be immense in infrastructure costs, but it would require the cost of a national email system [...]