Jason Calacanis Accepts Neil Patel’s SEO Challenge

After Danny Sullivan ranted, others checked in, and Neil raved, Jason finally caved in and said, OK, prove it.
This will certainly be fun to watch! 

Seattle Bubble - A Great Blog

The metrics, facts and figures that this blog invents (some of which look quite time consuming!) never cease to amaze me.)

I hope to one day soon be provided with this type of data about some topics I think are fascinating.

Arrington’s Post on Email Interfaces…

Interesting post, notice how the comments are way higher than normal? To me that indicates passion on a topic and need for improvement.

I still wish someone would put signatures on top of replies and that everyone had automated spell checks that worked well.

Rick Rubin Doesn’t Read Music

Per this Time article, Rick Rubin (just like Tommy Emmanuel) doesn’t read sheet music. Yet few would argue his skills and ability. The irony is that based on today’s recruiting processes in North America, neither would be granted an interview, yet they have been self-taught and are the leading innovators in their fields.

When are the majority of recruiting departments going to realize that compliance based hiring doesn’t build best of breed companies?  They should try competency and potential based hiring as the magic formula?

DMarc Founders Leave Google

Details here. Looks like another acquisition that wasn’t integrated well.

Perkspot, Employee Perks Management

Christopher Hilll is CEO of 2.5 employee Perkspot.com, an employee perks management company based a mere 5 blocks from where I currently live. Though I had been busy this week with a proposal on another matter, I had been looking forward to our conversation for several days. It appears to me that this concept will be successful because it’s based on a data and revenue model first within a well defined niche that has potential for later expansion. He also shared with me an outline of an impressive and growing customer list and we bonded well during the conversation. I look forward to closely following the progress of this venture as we shared a detailed conversation about his next likely steps and primary drivers of enabling success. Good fun.

Jumptap Gets Injection from WPP Group

Goobile had a write up about it.

WPP had more on the release here. This is an extremely interesting investment from an untraditional source. Time will tell what is means fully.

Highlights From Google’s Earnings Call This Week

Eric Schmidt stated (I’m loosely quoting here) that - mobile click through rates exceeded that of traditional search.

Jonathan Rosenberg stated that they were working on a “CMO dashboard”. This the kind of thing  I used to build at BlackRock - it’s one of my visions for this industry. There is such a long way to go and other data sets to crystalize.

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