Smartphone or Personal Server?

Yesterday I published a new post on LinkedIn. Have been publishing more and more on this platform. Check out my post on Smartphones as Personal Servers in the world of IoT and other recent articles on LinkedIn. Here's a link to the most recent...Smartphone or Personal Server?
Let me know what you think of it.

LinkedIn linking

I seem to have created a storm yesterday on LinkedIn relative to my post: "Why I won’t link with you on LinkedIn (and how to get me to link)" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-wont-link-you-linkedin-how-get-me-david-smith?trk=object-title
Lots of comments. Some negative, saying I should close the loop and link with everyone. I stand by my comments. But I appreciate what people have to say. Comments welcome here or on LinkedIn.

Mediasmith Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the founding of Mediasmith, Inc. Needless to say, Karen and I are proud of what we have accomplished. We've made a good living, helped a lot of companies and people grow and survived more ups and downs than we would have ever imagined. 

In the week, month and year to come, I hope to raise a glass with each of you to celebrate our longevity. Frankly, I don't think any other "digital" agency has made it to 25 years yet (You may recall that our first client was StarSight Telecast, inventors of the Interactive Program Guide for television). 

A hearty thanks to all who helped us along the way. This one's for you.
Dave and Karen

Where do third party ad servers go now?

Check out my new post on imediaconnection.com where I talk about the failure of the third party ad serving companies to maintain dollar volume share of agency media technology budgets.

Update on Social Efforts

OK, I just opened the new blogger interface and found out that it is now easy to see comments by others and post them. No, I did not post the post from India that appears to be a paid plug for Chevy, given the wording.
But I promise to do a better job of approving comments from others posting in the future.

I have taken a more distributed approach to social media. For most of these media I am mediadls (media + my initials).

I am actively posting on slideshare. (mediadls) the most recent is last week's ad:tech panel on Media Technology Stacks and who evaluates/integrates and works with media team to implement the proper stack (usually about 8-12 media technologies per campaign), working to get our arms around the creative tech stack. Maybe I should talk to Terry Kawaja at Luma about that.

I have a rapidly growing set of Pinterest boards also as mediadls. 

My Facebook is Dave Smith/mediadls

My Twitter is mediadls

LinkedIn is David Smith (use advanced search to add Mediasmith as company if you have difficulty because of all of the David Smith's!)

In Google+ I am David Smith. In my about section, there is additional information about following other activities.

On a 1x basis, I am posting this info on my personal blog also (daveshere)

Talk to you soon.
Dave

Check out the latest Mediasmith Anvil, with a salute to the 2012 London based Summer Olympics. It features an infographic generated from a contest winning idea from yours truly. Happy to make this available to you. Enjoy!

SXSARS?

My final post from 16 Days In Austin: SXSARS? http://bit.ly/ic8gRT

These Aren't the Droids You Are Looking For

16 Days In Austin: These Aren't the Droids You Are Looking For http://bit.ly/eR6Dcm My #SXSW blog

Too much?

16 Days In Austin: Too much? http://bit.ly/eOn3YP

Days 8 and 9: Taking it easy #SXSW

16 Days In Austin: Days 8 and 9: Taking it easy #SXSW http://bit.ly/e1juzF My SXSW blog.

Day 7 Recap. What a day.

16 Days In Austin: Day 7 http://bit.ly/hXSV4q My #SXSW blog

And the winner so far is....Foursquare

16 Days In Austin-Day 7 http://bit.ly/hXSV4q

Homeless CEO's?

16 Days In Austin: Homeless CEO's? http://bit.ly/h0klFI

16 Days in Austin

16 Days In Austin: Day 4: Moving Day http://bit.ly/hZ7F1B

16 Days in Austin

Check out my travel blog at http://bit.ly/hvs3ZQ

Apple Passes Microsoft

Just posted to my Fast Company blog: Media Tech the story of Apple passing Microsoft in cap value today. An amazing story. 10 years ago when Steve Ballmer took over, Microsoft was 35 times bigger than Apple. Today, in a day when Apple actually LOST value, it still ended up bigger than Microsoft for the first time.

Apple is now in the media business to stay. Not through media properties but through innovative hardware. Check out the Fast Company posting.

Death of the Impression/Rise of the Data Economy

Mediasmith's Director of Search and Analytics, Michael Andrew in the latest Mediasmith Anvil.A treatise on the new targeting available on the Web and the technologies enabling it. A must read!

Goodbye to my home delivered newspaper

Posted this yesterday on my Fast Company blog Media Tech. I love my Kindle and was not feeling real good about the inability of the Chronicle to show up on time, in front of my door and have gone to a much cheaper subscription on the Kindle. Check out my posting.

Twitter Monetization

Just posted on Harvard Business Review Web site. My blog on Twitter monetization. You see, lots of folks say Twitter has no way to make money. I disagree. I think that they will prove to be the most sophisticated business model of all. Read it and let me know what you think.

Latest Mediasmith Anvil

The latest Anvil is out. My interview with Adexchanger.com was featured where I talk about the need for brand protection being a major issue in the use of exchanges. Check it out. And opt-in while you are at it.