A lot of people are wondering who will be the first to leverage our email histories as a social graph. Clearly, we’re eager to see what an email + social hybrid looks like. The strange part is, why are people waiting for social to be added to email, but not email to be [...]

Music discovery is more a service to users than it is a sales-driver for content owners. But if it where, the objective would be simple: recommend songs that a user will have the highest probability of enjoying, but does not yet own. Triangulate with friend’s listening patterns, similarity profiles, crowd favorites, music [...]

…The problem is that most ads have a 1-stage engagement process: you’re either not engaged (ignore ad) of fully engaged (leave current page via click-through), and that conversion rate is minuscule.
Ads generally show 1-3 messages and expect users to decide whether to fully engage based that limited quantity of information.

With Flash-based ads, especially in square-ish dimensions, we should be showing users interactive, and even useful widgets instead of conventional ads.