Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

You, the readers here, are brilliant. You inspire me and keep me thinking. And while I haven’t responded to all of the ~3,000 comments left here over the years, I do read all of them. Which is why today’s post isn’t my thoughts – it’s yours. Following are 10 smart, thought-provoking comments from this community I pulled out of recent threads for your Friday inspiration:

You’ve likely seen the movie Inception by now, but even if you haven’t you’ve heard of the plot. That, in essence, it is possible to plant an idea in a person’s subconscious they would interpret as their own. In the movie this feat is accomplished through a group of thieves infiltrating their mark’s dream (or, more specifically dreams within dreams as noted in the infographic above).

PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel is offering an interesting proposition to young, driven innovators: $100,000 to drop out of college and launch startups. Directly from his fellowship site:

Charlene Li wrote up a brief analysis of Bing’s integration of Facebook within search results. However, she gets quite a bit wrong in her post. I don’t have any problems with her relatively objective intro of what the integration is (for a much deeper analysis, check out Danny Sullivan’s post). It’s her section on “power shifts” I think is misguided.

Applications like Hulu, devices such as DVRs, and quick DVD launches of previous seasons enable you to timeshift TV content for viewing on your time. The idea of having to watch pre-recorded televised content on someone else’s timetable is a dated notion, at least to those who value their schedules. There are exceptions to this, in the case of Sports or awards shows which are far more socially-oriented and thus lend themselves to being watched in real-time.

HubSpot is a fast growing company and has some very smart people working for them such as Dan Zarrella (who I have interviewed) and Kipp Bodnar (who I recently liveblogged during a conference). Overall, I like them. With that said, despite having sharp team members, in their rush to produce content I think they sometimes suffer from a “more is more” mindset which can impact quality.