By Geoff Livingston and Danny Brown. Cross-posted on Geoff’s blog. Contrary to Violet Blue’s disappointing stance about women in tech in 2010, this year saw a terrible new trend, the outright enforcement of the glass ceiling in technology. First there was Michael Arrington’s terribly ignorant rant, followed verbally by the likes of Robert Scoble and Ms. Blue, as well as the visual use of boobs to sell copies of WIRED by Chris Anderson and crew. Before opining too much, here…

I love hearing about cool new start-ups, and Ucubd might be one of my favourites, at least as much as fun factor goes. Standing for “you cubed”, Ucubd is (in their own words) “a mashup platform that allows bloggers and other web publishers to combine popular social media content from YouTube, Twitter, Amazon and others and embed these mashups on their sites or link to them on our site.” So, basically, Ucubd creates a fun info box based on the…

As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 – a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010. These are just personal takes and, as with any list, this is subjective so please feel free to leave your own thoughts in the comments after the post. Yesterday I looked at blogs. This time around it’s technology –…

Do a Google search for “emotional marketing” and you’ll find a whole bunch of views on what it is and how to tap into it. One of the best examples I’ve seen recently was the one put forward by Nick Desbarats at this weekend’s TEDx Ottawa event. Nick is one of the brains behind ChoiceBot and has some great ideas about how we make decisions, and how marketers can tap into that. There’s no doubt that tapping into the heart and…