One of the must reads on the State of the Internet is the report published by Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins.   The latest edition was just posted on Slideshare and I highly advise you take a few minutes this weekend to read it.  At a high level, the report talks the following: Basic Stats – Internet Growth Remains Robust,

The folks at Get Satisfaction released a simple but telling infographic that shows the top reasons people follow brands online.  You can click through for the full infographic, which covers things like: How many brands do people follow on Facebook? What happens when people follow a brand

The other day, my friend Gareth Kay was saying that his meme on “we need a new idea about ideas” was growing tired.  Leave it to Gareth to make that comment only to have a new idea in his back pocket to unleash on the world. Which leads us to the below presentation entitled “Think Small” that Gareth presented this

On Saturday, I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the inaugural Mashable Connect conference in Orlando, Florida.  As you would expect, Mashable put together a stellar line-up of speakers (myself excluded).  The below is the presentation that I gave on how brands and startups can work together in mutually beneficial partnerships

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the trend of “Online to Offline” and how digital is transforming human behavior.  So it was a bit serendipitous that I ran across the two below presentations by Paul Adams.  A former Googler, Paul is now a Product Manager at Facebook.  In these presentations, he outlines how social networking is really tied