As some of you may have heard, Facebook made a moderately important announcement yesterday with the launch of a deals infrastructure for Facebook Places. To learn more about the nuts and bolts, you can read the announcement and watch the demo video. Immediately after the announcement, the discussion around the [...]

At the VaynerMedia offices, a group of us have begun taking an improv class at UCB. This is something we’ve been talking about doing for a long time and now, two classes deep, I can honestly say that joining the class has been one of the best decisions of my [...]

In his “Authors @ Google” talk, one of Dan Ariely’s most interesting stories involves his experience in a hospital as a teenager while being treated for severe burns. He recounted how the nurses would remove his bandages in one quick swoop, an experience that he dreaded due to the incredible [...]

I know that everyone’s reaching the point of over-saturation when it comes to Lebron’s decision to head to Miami to team up with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh, but I wanted to get my two cents in before everything dies down.  I believe the way he handled his decision, along [...]

The news that Twitter’s latest growth stats have been strong got me to thinking about how we in the social media space deal with the maturity of platforms.  Twitter’s growth stats weren’t necessarily surprising when thought about logically, it’s a popular service with mainstream attention that provides a valuable service. [...]