Everyone's annoyed by most ads, the challenge is to make those ads at least relevant, preferably appealing too. I think Foursquare and others that truly "get" local will show the way here.
The problem with coupons now is that the genie is out of the bottle, the websites where coupons are posted will often contain placeholder pages of [retailer name] + coupon that are designed to rank for those searches, whether or not a coupon exists…
Touching on the discussion of advertisers flocking to be in the inaugural issues of the iPad versions of the NYT, WSJ and other publications: sure there's only going to be an audience of around a quarter of a million, but these are early adopting hi…
Excellent advice Bob. Life's too short to spend 8 hours a day working for people who don't listen to you when all your trying to do is raise everyone's overall game.
I think ad supported software gets a bad rap. This is an 'it depends'. There's some ad supported software that if I paid for, I'd want to keep the ads; Tweetie for Mac has ads that I find highly relevant, they're as much a service as they are advert…
Any time Bob has to edit out an expletive from George Parker (tbh, I'd prefer they were left in, I don't see what a 'clean' tag in iTunes helps with.
Any time someone uses the words transparency and authenticity in the same sentence.