After being seen as a repeated failure of a company over the past couple years, Yahoo may just yet redeem itself with its latest search engine update, Search Direct. While this reminds most Google users of one of the latest and biggest Google updates, Google Instant, with its...

After reading Business Insider's "Facebook E-Commerce Is Real, And We Have The Numbers To Prove It," you can't argue that Facebook's ability to conquer the world is inevitable. Of course, Amazon may try to squash them, but we'll just have to see about that.

With Facebook always being...

It seems Facebook recently made a big boo-boo. It was to small business advertiser Joshua Niamehr's surprise to find an outrageous statement from Facebook about having an outstanding balance of more than $8.8 million for FB ads. First of all, I don't know many small businesses that even...

When business people think about anything worth investing in, whether it be dollars or time, they usually only consider the dollar return-on-investment (ROI) amount that the project will produce. Simple metrics can usually be utilized in considering the potential ROI on campaigns, but for more complicated projects where ROI isn't...

Trying to understand a bit more about the tech world, its intricacies and its offerings, I decided to connect with Vikram Goyal, the tech genius behind DIY blogs CraftBits and CraftGossip. I was surprised to learn that the heavy burden of tech development lied mostly on...

So now that 2010 is behind us and 2011 has a lot of exciting things in store, I wanted to take this time to reflect on the absolute best and most underrated innovations in 2010 that could use a bit more limelight.

Collaborating with influentials in the tech, social media,...

Co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, is encouraging going cold turkey. Instead of fighting the war against drug addiction, the vice here is conservatism, being ordinary and taking the safe route in life.

The Thiel Foundation is now sponsoring the Thiel Fellowship, also known...

It's not the first time a company has been called the Netflix of their niche industry. ManPacks is the Netflix of underwear, but ever since Warby Parker graced the pages of GQ being labeled "the Netflix of eyewear" earlier this year, the eyewear brand...

It was easy to hire them. It was summer time, and there were plenty of kids looking for unpaid, part-time internships. They could work a few hours a day, a few times a week, and even get school credit. The rest of the time, they could hang out with friends,...

There is no doubt that while brick and mortar businesses feel outdated, brick and mortar sales continue to massively trump online sales. But e-commerce sales are growing at a very strong rate. In 2009, U.S. online sales amounted to $155.2 billion, only 6% of total retail sales (via

The other day I was checking my inbox and I noticed a proposal, from an e-tailer who shall not be named, for me to refer my friends to shop at an e-store I particularly like.

I certainly love to talk about this e-tailer, who I think has done a...

So I recently made a decision to take some time off of school. I'm scheduled for a year off from university to work here in Shanghai and build Blank Label to be the best custom men's dress shirts startup out there.

I'm not quite ditching university...

If you're in our target audience (and the likelihood is that you are), then you might see an ad like this today when you're surfing Facebook to stalk that girl (or guy) that you really like, post pictures of your vacation in Aruba, or just share a funny-ass video from...

Danny Wong is a contributor to several big media outlets and is the Media Relations Guru of Blank Label, an ecommerce startup specializing in co-created custom dress shirts.

As a contributor to different media outlets, you easily learn a lot about good Public Relations. If...

This is certainly a belated apology, but not without reason. We thought about publishing this apology on Blank Label's co-creation blog, but didn't think it was the best way to distribute this important message, especially because those we wronged would not likely stumble upon our website...

The big player in retail, Nike, announced that their NikeID co-creation platform brought in over $100 million in revenue for the fiscal year of 2009.

Those types of figures certainly prove that co-creation isn't merely a trend and that consumers are actually looking to be empowered to become...

Ever wonder why your media contacts start ignoring your emails? Perhaps they are busy? Perhaps they aren't interested in your pitch? Have you ever considered that maybe you are on their Blacklist?

So what does this mean? How awful is it to be...

When we think of the subscription business model, we think Neflix, and how easy it is to gain access to tons of movies, especially the latest and the greatest, at an unbeatable price.

Today, we present, ManPacks, a new way for men...

Big fashion houses like Burberry are finally innovating, and that's exciting for haute couture shoppers.

For the style-conscious consumer, the accessibility of sample-sales from flash-sales sites like Gilt and RueLaLa make bargain shopping a lot easier. Who doesn't love a product that is up...

In any market that has more than a $1 billion, or even a few hundred million, market cap, there are several notable players, and sometimes those players look exactly identical to each other.

According to Pete Cashmore, the pretty boy of the World Wide Web and social media,