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The Hidden Assumptions That Neuter Criticism in Silicon Valley

By Chris Yeh on October 7, 2013

The contretemps of the day comes courtesy of TechCrunch, where Professor Vivek Wadhwa has published a guest post addressing a Twitter debate he had with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo (now how’s that for meta?):http://tcrn.ch/GD0570The controversy began with…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged criticism, dickcostolo, sexism, siliconvalley, SocialMedia, twitter, vivekwadhwa | 1 Response

The Troll Economy

The Troll Economy

By Chris Yeh on August 30, 2013

Q: What do you get when journalists get paid by the number of pageviews their stories generate? A: The Troll economy. Not to sound like a grumpy old man (though I am) but what passes for journalism has sunk to a new low.  As far as I can tell, headlines are now chosen based on […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged businessinsider, businessmodel, Elon Musk, outrage, Quora, SocialMedia, steve jobs, Troll

The content continuum and why I'm worried about the direction of the online world

The content continuum and why I’m worried about the direction of the online world

By Chris Yeh on September 27, 2012

At the risk of sounding (even more) like a crotchety old man, I feel like the online world is moving in exactly the wrong direction.I would argue that there is a direct correlation between the amount of effort a creator expends and the quality and valu…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged blogging, dopamine, facebook, SocialMedia, twitter, writing

Social Media Hysteria

Social Media Hysteria

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 30, 2012

Yesterday, after the Amazon outage, I tweeted a comment highlighting the difficulties faced by AWS customers (applicable, in general, to all public cloud customers) when there is an outage. It was a tweet meant to highlight how desperate the situation becomes for AWS customers as well as AWS employees. I compared the situation after such […]

Posted in General | Tagged attention, attention economy, hysteria, insights, Mass media, nick carr, SocialMedia, twitter | 10 Responses

Is There A Social Media Bubble?

Is There A Social Media Bubble?

By Chris Yeh on April 16, 2012

Of course there’s a social media bubble. All over the map, everyone ranging from seed-stage investors to the public markets are paying inflated prices for social media assets. But while the current frenzy is a bubble, it doesn’t even come close to the magnitude and madness of the Dot-Com bubble. Back in those days, “eyeballs” […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Apple, bubble, Dot-com bubble, dotcom, facebook, Instagram, linkedin, social media, SocialMedia, twitter

Is Social Media Marketing A Crock?

Is Social Media Marketing A Crock?

By Chris Yeh on September 13, 2010

I recently had the pleasure of attending a dinner for startup VPs of Marketing. I had a great time chatting with peers and laughing about the unrealistic demands we all face. “Get me in the Journal and fill the pipeline–but don’t spend any money.”The …

Posted in Marketing | Tagged hubspot, marketing, Marketing and Advertising, social media, SocialMedia, startups

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