The Twitterverse was abuzz yesterday with #marissamania and with good reason. Marissa Mayer is one of the most exciting personalities in tech who rose through the Google meritocracy not because she was a founder, but because she deserved it.

I had coffee with Mike Krass yesterday, the CEO of MKG Media Group, a new small direct response marketing shop in town to ask me advice about growing an agency. It must have been good coffee because he wrote a blog post about some of the advice I gave him.

I was quoted this morning in an article by Jack Marshall on Digiday about "The Most Digital Agency" (the answer: monster conglomerate WPP who just bought AKQA).

Here's what I said:

This week I cashed in on one of my Klout "perks" and got to drive around in a Chevy Volt for the weekend for free. How was the experience? Was it an effective marketing program? Did it impact my perception of Klout? Or Chevy?

Read on....

Game changing announcement from the folks at TiVo and PayPal this week. Now you can buy stuff from your TV.

If there's one thing the Digerati love more than tweeting about their SXSW presentations, Klout scores and Facebook stock price predictions, it's fawning over Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker's annual presentation on the state of the digital industry.

Last Thursday, I spoke at the Videonomics conference in Dallas. The invite-only event drew some amazing people—the other speakers included YouTube web-lebrity Kevin Nalts (of farting in a library fame) and Mark Cuban (billionaire/Dallas Mavericks owner/king shark on Shark Tank).

The consensus on online video?

This Thursday, I'll be heading to Texas. I'll be speaking at the Videonomics conference at... get this... Cowboys Stadium. 

First, let me say, "Go Giants!"

Now that I've got that out of my system, let me focus on the talk I'll be giving. It's called "Leaning Back while Leaning Forward" and in it, I'll be introducing a diagram that I call The Online Video Continuum. 

I just found a screen shot from the very first website I ever worked on. It was an e-commerce site for SGI to sell their fancy new Visual Workstations back in 1997. 

We regularly tell our clients that their customers today rely on one another to form opinions and make decisions about brands more than they rely on the brands themselves. 

We're no different.

That's why I'm so excited that our clients at Traction have nice things to say about us. So many nice things that between my LinkedIn profile and Traction's, we've got over 50 recommendations from clients, partners and former team members.

I try not to toot our own horn too much on this blog—but figured sharing how others toot our horn is fair game. And since you're here, not on Traction's LinkedIn profile, I thought I'd share a few. 

Here are half of them—all from clients (you can view more from partners, former employees, contractors who have worked here and more on my profile):